Anxiously Awaiting

If you haven’t seen nor heard of it yet, head over to calendar.google.com and check out quite possibly the best application that google has designed yet! I have always shied away from calendar applications like Outlook and Thunderbird’s Lightning mainly because I knew I would never keep them up to date. But as my life gets more and more complicated the need for a scheduling mechanism has grown. In walks Google Calendar. Perfect.

I can now keep up with my day to day in addition to a band practice schedule, show dates, contract work deadlines, and a house church schedule (all on separate, shared calendars). The ability to share all of my calendars to other people (like sharing the band practice calendar to bandmates) is super convenient, and Google has finally filled the gap that Outlook and Thunderbird couldn’t. Since both are actualy client applications, there is no way to share calendars without being on the same exchange server. Toss in a beautiful Web 2.0 (AJAX) UI and bingo. Instant hit.

In short, at least favor google calendar a glance. Even if you are a hardcore outlook user, I garentee that you will be impressed. In addition, any calendar made in Google Calendar can be exported to iCal format. Which means, you can import them to Outlook or Lightning.

I want to work for Google.