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Notes Whether you’re working on your own projects or collaborating with a team, you have to manage
your productivity. With online task-management applications, you can organize tasks, collaborate
in real-time, access your lists across multiple computers or mobile devices, and much more.
Thus, web-based scheduling and task management applications help you to organize your
schedules and manage your tasks efficiently.

7.1.1 Exploring Online Calendars Applications

Many of us prefer to manage our appointments, social events, and to-do lists with online calendars.
Most of us our switching to the Web-based calendars today. A Web-based calendar service stores
your calendars on the Internet, where they can be accessed from any computer that has an
Internet connection. Web-based calendars are also extremely easy to access and share with other
users across the globe, which makes them a great option for collaborative projects and tasks. Let
us now discuss about a few online calendars that let you remain better organized at work, at
your home or anyplace that has an internet connection.

Google Calendar

Google Calendar is a free time-management web application offered by Google. It is the most
popular Web-based calendar today, which undoubtedly is due to its association with the web’s
most-used search engine. With Google’s free online calendar, it’s easy to keep track of life’s
important events all in one place. Google Calendar is free, full featured, and easy to use.

Did u know? In June 2000, Google became the world’s largest search engine.
Google Calendar lets you schedule and share events with a flexible free online calendar accessed
through the web, mobile devices and many desktop application such as Outlook and iCal. While
Google Calendar includes a to-do list, its features are a tad limited.
Google Calendar lets you create multiple, colour-coded calendars. You can set up colour-coded
calendars and share them as well as invite people to events flexibly using Google calendar.

Each calendar can be shared with other Google Calendar users using flexible permissions such
as admin, make changes, view only and so on. With this facility you can invite anybody with an
email address to your events. These invitees can also make the necessary changes to your event
list as and when the need arises.
Google Calendar is an easy way for teachers, administrators and students to share time-related
info like team schedules, assignment deadlines and school holidays. Anyone who needs to view
a calendar can use it from any Internet-connected computer and access it on existing school web
pages or within their own Google Calendar account. Changes made by a calendar organizer are
automatically seen by anyone who checks, which makes outdated versions a thing of the past.
Sports teams, clubs and other groups can use Google Calendar to keep students, teachers and
parents current with their group schedule. Groups with more than one leader (for example, a
coach and two captains) can easily designate multiple “owners” to keep the calendar updated.
Google Calendar includes daily, weekly, monthly and custom views as well as an agenda. Each
view can be printed. Flexible scheduling repeats events automatically. Flexible reminders notify
you via email, SMS or desktop alert.
Google Calendar also includes some keyboard shortcuts, and events can be created using natural
language as well as mouse dragging. The Gmail Tasks to-do list is available from Google
Calendar, and you can create calendar events from Gmail, too. Google Calendar can be accessed

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