I generally have about five projects on the go at any one time. Keeping track of their due dates is easy enough. I just create them as appointments in my calendar. However, it's not so easy to plan out how I should be spending my time to reach these deadlines. To address this issue, I tried several different systems to plan out my time. I tried gannt charts - such as Gantto - and to-do lists - such as Trello. The gantt charts were too complex to build and update. Trello, although a lovely tool to work with, didn't help me work out how I should be scheduling my time to meet my deadlines. Enter Google Calendar In the end, the tool that worked best for me was Google Calendar. To meet my needs, I created a second calendar called "Resource Scheduling". On this second calendar, I created daily appointments to indicate what I planned to do on that day. Continue Reading
