Llama and Lamb

I use Google Calendar to communicate with my wife when I have made plans in the evening. Like most action items on an automated to-do list, I add all action items I could possible want to do and then decide whether to do them only a few hours before when I receive a reminder. With this process, I am not thinking and worrying about thinking about the event days before. For the first year of marriage, I have added items to my online calendar and forget about them under I receive an email or SMS message on my mobile phone.

Public or shared calendars have been around for years, especially for enterprise use.?Ǭ†The caveat to communicating this way is that people within the circle to need to be online, regularly checking their email. Otherwise, they will not receive the notice.?Ǭ†Since I do not regularly meet with our advertising agency clients, due dates are necessary to know, but meetings do not have to be laid out and scheduled.

My calendar, at this time, is soley personal. I use gCal and share my calendar with my wife. She is a read only user of my gCal calendar. Since she is a user, she can subscribe to notifications of events. My calendar is set to email to her one day ahead, so that I don’t have to remember to tell her myself. Now I “never forget” to tell my wife when I have made plans. gCal does it for me.

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