iHCPL Week 6 #14
The FlipFlopLibrarian checked out Technorati during Week 4 and liked it as a tool to find interesting RSS feeds. FFL checked it out again this week as part of iHCPL’s Week6 exercises and while checking out some of the interesting feeds, she stumbled on something that might solve some issues her family has had.
FFL, like many others, is overwhelmed by keeping up with her family’s schedule. She’s tried different calendars to keep up with what everyone is doing, but every calendar system she has come up with has the same issue: portability.
FFL will input something into Outlook at work and then email herself at home so that she can put it on the paper calendar at the house (if she ever gets around to doing it). But DH doesn’t put anything on the paper calendar. So FFL is in charge of keeping up with the calendars of 2 adults, 2 kids and 2 dogs (yes, the dogs have events every once in a while – they have to go to the vet and such!). What if there were a calendar that could keep up with EVERYONE’s calendars and sync with both FFL and DH’s Outlook calendars? What if it were available online – from any computer? What if some of that info could be accessed from a cell phone?
Well, FFL stumbled across Cozi the other day and is pretty darn excited about it. Reviews seem to look favorable for this free online calendar. She hasn’t had a chance to try it out, but as soon as she gets a chance, she’s going to try it out. FFL will post here whenever she tries it out to tell everyone how it goes.
Until then,
Toodle-oo!
Cozi sounds good to me, too. I just don’t want to have to pay my cell phone carrier so I can use it. Thanks for sharing. I tried to use the appointments feature of my cell phone that alerts me when something is coming up, but I had trouble setting the right time.
What I want is a personal assistant who will phone me when I need to go somewhere or do something by a certain time. No wait, I need someone to fill out paperwork and turn it in for me. Actually, I need all of that. Are you interested in going halfsies with me. You can have the assistant 2.5 days a week and I’ll get her/him for the other 2.5 days. How about it?
I don’t want to have to pay the cell phone carrier for that either. But if we really like it, it might be worth it to upgrade our phone plan to include some text minutes.
What I like is the integration with Outlook – both of us use Outlook as our main calendar – so it would be great if DH could see all my funky evening or weekend shifts and plan around them. I keep emailing him that info and he keeps forgetting to put it into his calendar.
Plus we have a tablet PC – so if we could just hang it in a convenient location and make our family calendar the home page for the PC, we’d have a nice little self-populating calendar for the family to use.