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google calendar is a really powerful
tool that helps you manage your time
better
schedule events tasks time block your
to-do's
and share meeting details with your team
however
google calendar has been around for ages
now and although a lot of people still
use the basic features just fine
there are a bunch of new extras
extensions and new tricks to use google
calendar that will help you manage your
agenda even better
so in today's video we'll be discussing
11 different ways to improve the way
you're using google calendar
and make your calendar blocking that
much efficient
so first let's talk about gcal plus
gcal plus is a chrome extension that
introduces a bunch of different features
that although subtle
can really make an impact on how you use
calendar
for instance you can start and end the
calendar during specific hours so that
you hide a bunch of blank slots like for
instance when you're sleeping
you can also expand overlapping week
events
tweak the dots and colors in monthly and
yearly views
hide event illustrations and so forth
also you can now use goals on a google
calendar and i think this is only
available for your iphone or
android app besides events and tasks you
can also set goals now so this feature
lets you set
clearly defined goals like you know
working out three times per week or
something of the sort
then google calendar automatically
schedules those goals on your calendar
based on when you have open slots in
your calendar but then you can also
decide whether
it should be happening in the morning
afternoon or evening
each event in your calendar has a notes
section
but it really doesn't provide enough
features to really take advantage of
so a good way around this is pasting a
link to a notion page
for instance if you're scheduling a
meeting in your google calendar you can
create a notion page for those meeting
notes
share it and copy the link to your notes
section in the event in the calendar
when the time for the meeting comes you
can open the template to start writing
and it's also a good way to document
notes because they save those links in
your calendar
and then you can revisit those notes
anytime you want
when opening google calendar on your
desktop you are able to access the tasks
widgets
besides adding a bunch of tasks for this
list that after completion you can cross
such on your calendar
and trust me crossing those out is so
much more satisfying than seeing events
fly by
you can actually create categorized task
list so that you're able to clean a bit
of the mess in your to-do list
and know exactly how many tasks you need
to complete for each major group
button for google calendar is a chrome
extension that gives you a quick
overview of your calendar
introducing a button on your toolbar
that shows you upcoming events without
having to leave the tab you have open
it also sends push notifications and
provides quick access to conference
links
you can also create new events with this
interface as well although the widget
will require you to open a new tab in
your browser
if you enjoy calendar blocking and time
batching and love to use google calendar
for it but sometimes have a difficult
time knowing whether you should set
an abstract task like study for history
or a lot of specific tasks like study
chapter 4
study chapter 5 and so on you can
actually make
both methods work and you can do this by
creating a large event around the time
block that you want and then create
small tasks that you overlap into that
event
that way you are able to block your
calendar during study time as well as
setting specific tasks to complete
during that block
color coding should have a specific goal
instead of being used for the aesthetic
so personally i like to use color in my
calendar to see at a glance whether my
work life balance is good or not
basically i set work related tasks and
events in the shade of one color
varying depending on the category of the
work task i'm setting
and then i do the same thing in a
different color for my personal life
more than making my life more productive
this lets me see whether i'm setting
enough time for myself
or if i'm being swallowed by my work
this is a really fun one you can
actually set your google calendar to
send you a daily agenda via email
much like a personal assistant if you
sometimes have trouble remembering all
the events and your upcoming tasks
this email is a good reminder in the
morning or late evening to kickstart
your motivation and prepare you for what
is coming
although i'm a fan of tasks in google
calendar i really hate the fact that i
can't change their color to match to my
pre-existing color scheme
so the way around this is using emojis
to create categories
you can insert these emojis just before
the name of the task and that way you're
able to see before even reading the
title
whether that task is related to a call a
writing job
something related to youtube the house
and so forth
if you use a mix between apple devices
and google products there is an easy way
to sync your ical and google calendar
besides the usual import calendar option
and that is creating an ipt applet that
adds an ios event to google calendar as
you create it
of course you need ifttt to enable this
option but it's really easy to use and
it has worked for me so far
google calendar actually has a bunch of
handy shortcuts you can use in desktop
mode to navigate your calendar in a more
efficient way
this one is pretty self-explanatory so
i'll just insert the list of shortcuts
on the screen
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i really hope you've enjoyed today's
video and i'll see you next week
bye guys