Does your diary/calender rule your life?

[kalniel]

Synchronicity is a god-send. Google, MS and Apple have, perhaps inadvertently, combined to make my life possible. I used to get by okay, but a combination of massively increasing numbers of irregular out-of-work commitments, deadlines, and having to disappear around the world on work business make easy access to multiple calenders, including shared ones, vital. It was either that or get a secretary

[scaryjim]

I have the exact opposite problem. I tend to be chaotic and not organise things. Works for me though.

I find my phone synchronised calender an absolute godsend. I'd be equally lost without it !

Rule my life, hell no. Avoid my life being a made a misery by forgetting to pick up the missus, yes.

I'm - to an extent - basically a combination of these. I'm incredibly disorganised, to the eternal chargin of my boss ("Jim, are you ready for this meeting?" ... "erm, we have a meeting? Sorry?") and my wife. I have tried to use various calendaring options none of which actually make me any more organised because I frequently fail to check my calendar (moving on to Exchange at work should help there, as I'll now have my email and calendar in one program!). Getting an Android phone was great because I could access my google calendar anywhere, sync it to my phone, and make it send my reminder emails which I would usually pick up: that lasted for a few months but now I never remember to set myself any reminders. Which basically means I bumble through life hoping that nothing particularly terrible happens, and occasionally I get a blinding flash of motivation and organisation and stick some things in my calendar which means I remember to do stuff for a couple of months.

Somehow, however, I still have both a wife and a job. Guess I'm just really lucky...?