Google the Saviour

"The Balanced one always maintains a perfect diary; never missing an appointment and always on time."

 

For the unbalanced on, this is essentially impossible.

 

Social dates, meetings, dentist appointments, children's parties, hand ins, lunches, dinners- Where do they all go? how many diaries are necessary to ensure you always make these dates? Outlook is a great tool for the office, but the social side of life rarely fits into a 30 minute slot that's linked to 14 accounts...

 

So for all those that might slip through the net and cost you some valuable time in the dog house- Google (unsurprisingly) is the social Saviour.

 

Although google+ may not yet be facebook 2.0 (and I'm not insinuating that it one day shall be) the suite of software in place for the common man is everything you need to keep yourself on the straight & narrow. A great tool for emails, gmail also offers great synchronisation features which manage to do the almost impossible- bridging that divide between feature heavy technicalities & fantastic user interfacing with real usability. I should point out at this interchange that I also have two android mobile phones, both of which are integrated with google programs and as such any updates either at my laptop or on the move are all synchronised immediately. Thanks to this spilling over onto iOS platforms also, anything in my gmail inbox can be rapidly added to my 'iCalenders' also, another great marriage of softwares.

 

Because of this, I'm never without a chirpy assistant telling me where I should be, with whom & for what reason- occasionally sending me an email telling me to pull my finger out and get sorted.

Well maybe not that much- But I'm sure it'll be added in the next update.

 

It's always the smallest things that make the biggest impact, and this is no different- getting organised is all about the little changes- and just by using this powerful tool you can really kick your schedule into touch.

 

The real message here? Don't spend your time trying to keep up- spend half as much doing it before hand.