"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician." -- Col. Jeff Cooper (b. 1920-05-10, d. 2006-09-25)
Argh. Got a nagging feeling that there was something I'd planned to do this weekend that I've forgotten, that I lost track of when the hard drive in the Mac died. (I'd switched from keeping track of my calendar on my PDA to trying to remember to do so on the Mac ...) Now I'm trying to teach myself the habit of keeping it in Google Calendar, which may be slow going, since I keep forgetting to log into Google just like I don't get around to logging into FaceBook for months at a time.
On the one hand, keeping stuff in Google Docs and Google Calendar means it won't depend on the reliability of hand-me-down hardware that's already old by the time it gets to me. (It's mostly disk drives and batteries that I have to worry about.) On the other hand, it won't be always in my purse like the PDA, nor frequently close at hand when I'm out of the house, like the laptop, though it will be accessible wherever there's a web browser for me to use. On the gripping hand, the collaborative aspects of the Google apps may come in handy. (I've made separate HCB and SEM calendars that show up in the same view as my personal calendar.) I've already used Google Docs for a few spreadsheets, but some have been ones that I created specifically to share, and the others I keep forgetting are out there.
I really want something that'll keep multiple calendar tools synchronized -- my PDA, my cell phone (which has a usefully loud alarm, unlike the PDA), the Mac once I save up for a new hard disk, Google (or other cloud-ish app), and so on. Ideally without having to learn yet another annoying user interface. (Or maybe I should get a larger purse, get the LaserJet repaired, and go back to using a DayRunner with cutom calendar pages.)
Anywho, let me see how long it takes me to make Google Calendar a habit. Or how long it takes me to realize I've forgotten to look at it for three months and give up on it.
(And how long it takes me to track down event announcements in the last month worth of email and friends' LJ/DW entries to stick into my calendar again.)
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