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Being uni students require allot of time management. Hey... we’ve got to make sure we study, finish assignments, turn up at work, suffer similar “transgressions” as Tiger Woods. This is why we use organisers to help remember each task and remind us when it’s due. The free ones we get at the start of the year won’t cut it anymore – we can’t waste our precious energy carrying it all day in our fashionable messenger bags. Besides, you can’t be automatically alerted to upcoming events, share your calendar with other people or change events dates without crossing it out and creating a mess. That’s why many of us use digital calendars on our smart-phones (mobile phones for the less tech savvy). One of the least used organising tools is Google calendar. If you would like to know how to create time out of mid air, know how to access the best computers in the uni :P -- hit the read more link to read my post...


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To use Google Calendar it’s as simple as opening your browser, direct it to Google Calendar, login with your Google account or create one is you don’t have one, and you’re in. Adding events is as simple as clicking on the time and day the event is due. You can check it out in the video below.

Google Calendar gives you the option to share your calendar to the public or to a few people. This allows you to co-ordinate times for events with your friends, family or co-workers. A basic example is sharing your uni timetables so you can tell when your friends have lectures or free time. But Google Calendar has much more features up its sleeves. For my group assignment—this blog, I created a new calendar that was editable by my team members. Not only could we assign tasks such as blog postings around each person’s exam time we could set reminders a few days before each task was due so we don’t have to personally pester each other.

You can add heaps of useful calendars, from upcoming Macquarie uni events (Macquarie Important Events Calendar) to public holidays-- they save you from having to type it up manually.

He’s something useful for Macquarie students that can use level 100 computers-- the only decent ones in Macquarie Uni. To practice what I preach, I’ve created a calendar for Level 100 computing labs (highly painful work). It’s not a perfect one but it’ll show when the labs are free. Please feel free to correct errors or help add in cancelled classes. View ISYS100 Lab Times calendar

By the way don’t worry about calendars events flooding the screen because you can hide calendars by just clicking on the calendar name on the left hand bar.

Don’t think your calendar viewing pleasure is restricted to a computer browser. Because your Google Calendar is stored in the “cloud” (on the internet) you can edit and view them on heaps of devices.

For the iPhone addicts out there, point your browser to http://calendar.google.com and an iPhone version of Google calendar will pop up. If you want to add it as an icon on your home screen, hit the + button in Safari, and choose "Add to Home Screen".

An even cooler way is to use your smart-phone to aggregate all your calendars. You can set it up so you can see calendars from Google calendar, Outlook, iCal all in one screen. It allows you to overlay the different calendars so you don’t have to open them in different applications and you can visually see clashes in your schedule. If you want to give it a go here’s the link to Google sync, it supports the iPhone, Nokia smart-phones and Blackberry.

For more info checkout Google's getting started guide