My Outlook Calendars
Below are semester one screenshots of two outlook calendars I created this semester. One is a professional activities calendar with my lesson schedule, time for tasks, time for study activities on my courses, time for preparations, and other to dos in my personal life and the other calendar is a deadline calendar with all my assignment and preparation deadlines.
Sharing my professional calendar with two fellow student
Scheduling a TMD2 meetings in Outlook with invites to participants
Using Doodle to plan a team work meeting on a project for one of my courses
My Personal Toolbox
To discuss the instruments I use to plan meetings, plan activities, follow them up, …. and why, I will first mention that these instruments are Outlook, Keep Notes app, my phone’s alarm clock, TimeTree, my Google calendar and Doodle.
I use these instruments because they give me a better view of my all-round activities and help me follow them up as well. The Outlook calendar is synchronized with my class schedules, school meeting schedules, assignment deadlines and other school activities, and I add my other personal life activities on it. It helps me keep up with schoolwork and everything that concerns school and also to ensure that I allocate time to my personal life activities as well. The prior reminders from the Outlook calendar about tasks help me not to miss anything I have to do, especially meeting deadlines. With regards to the Google calendar, I mostly use it to save birthdays and special yearly family events and it helps me keep track of those.
My Keep Notes app and my phone alarm clock are the planning tools that I use to set immediate reminders of activities that sprout up within the day and (mostly) will only be for that day. I put down my every day’s to-do list on my Keep Notes app, and I use my phone alarm clock to set timers when I’m studying or when I need to have finished with an activity on my day’s to-do list. In addition, I use my phone alarm clock for wake-up calls of every morning too; I set them on “ring daily”.
In terms of the TimeTree app, it’s one that my family uses to plan activities so that we don’t have clashing activities if there is an activity where everyone is required to be present at/for. On the TimeTree app, everyone in a family who registers with an account can join the family’s account (after being invited via email by the user who created the family account) and whatever plans he/she puts in can be seen collectively. For example, I put all my work schedules in there so that my sister (and other registered family members) can be aware of the days I will not be available in case she needs babysitting or any order thing that might require my help or presence after school hours. I also put schedules of the weekends I’m on my church worship team or media team rota in the TimeTree app so that I can make time for the Saturday evening rehearsals and not have any other activity planned on that day. My family will also see this to avoid banking on me at the allocated time slots for anything. This TimeTree app also reminds me (as many times and at what days and times I want it to) of activities that have been planned on it; both by me and by other members of my family.
On another hand, I use the Doodle app to schedule one-time meetings, mostly not academically related or family related meetings as I mostly use the outlook calendar and the TimeTree app for those. The Doodle scheduler helps me get an overview of when it will be ideal to fix/hold a meeting with others based on the option(s) the people I invite to it choose most.
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