Articles tagged "Calendars"

5 ways personal assistants can start automating their work

As a personal assistant, your job is all about someone else. Whether it's managing a schedule, keeping track of daily tasks, or organizing files, you're the expert on what your employer needs, and—more importantly—the expert on how they work.

How to send automated reminders for upcoming calendar events

Meetings are sometimes the only time you'll get together with some of your coworkers. And, because everyone has their own preferences for notifications, it can sometimes be tough to make sure the whole team gets to the next meeting on time.

How to make Zapier your personal assistant

It’s embarrassing when something slips through the cracks, or if you commit to something and forget to mark it on your calendar. This is a problem that Zapier solves.

How to get automated text alerts for upcoming calendar events

Keep yourself on track with automated text reminders ahead of calendar events—no matter what calendar app you use.

I don't do meetings on Fridays—here's why you shouldn't either

Sometimes the smallest change can make a big difference for your mental health. For me, it's keeping Friday completely clear of meetings. 

Why I don't work first thing on Mondays

Reader, let me tell you a secret: I spend the first two hours of my Monday workday not working. Let me explain how this happened. 

You can now split your working hours in Google Calendar

The workday evolved in 2020, and tools are adapting to accommodate that. Google announced a few subtle tweaks to Google Calendar. The main one: you can segment your work day into multiple chunks. 

5 Google Calendar features every remote or hybrid team needs

Remote and hybrid work used to be an edge case. They're not anymore and major software is changing to reflect that.

Every hybrid worker should enable this Google Calendar feature

Google's work location tool will help everyone know who's in the office and who's working from home. Here's how to use it.

Why everyone needs to use Google Calendar's out of office feature

Vacations shouldn't be stressful, but there's nothing relaxing about individually canceling every single appointment you're about to miss. It's also not fun for other people to send you calendar invitations you'll never see while you're offline.