Something I’ve been using a lot of lately is Google Calendar.  Amanda and I used to use Horde for our family online calendar, but now it’s just something else to sign into and keep updated.   Plus, the functionality is very Web 1.0.  The first two months of the year we drifted along listlessly without a family calendar.  If we missed an appointment with you because of this, I’m sorry, and we’re working on it

Beginning of this month we decided on using a shared calendar in our business Gmail accounts.  We’re already logging in each morning, and the features were way better than the alternatives (horde, iCal, paper, having Annabelle write them down).  One of those features which I think is brilliant is SMS notifications of events.

In your calendar settings there is a “Mobile Setup” tab.  Enter in your mobile phone provider info and your telephone number to get a verification code.  Once you get the code, enter it into the website to finish setup and you’re ready to go.

In Settings > Calendars there is a Notifications tab where you can have event reminders sent to you via SMS (text) along with interactions on Invitations.

This feature plus a host of others along with the great integration with Documents made the Google Calendar an easy choice for us.

So, I’m done with my commercial now - I hope everyone has a Happy Easter!