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Calendaring the iCal way
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calendar the iCal way
I must admit I would be lost without iCal. I use it to separate different client work into colour coded groups.Orange is the colour for general company work, and I like to have an all day appointment placeholding work days and their location in Orange. Red is the colout for travel. I do a lot of work on trains, and try to optimise my rttrain journeys for caling and emailing people so I need to plan them fairly meticulously. The wonderful www.traintimes.org.uklets you place train times directly in iCal which I do. Purple is my Entourage calendar.
One of my clients insists on using Outlook for everything. I want to be responsive so I use Entourage to access the calendar, but I need to see how it might affect other work so I primarily view my world in iCal because I can see it in context with my other client activities. Entourage comes from the 'there shall only be one' calendar school of thinking so everything from there is in this purple calendar. But this works nicely for me as my client cant see my other work, or my family calendars (which I turned off in this screenshot)and I can tell if Im getting to a point of 'fixtrue congestion'.
I think iCal could be improved in lots of ways but I do rely on it and I use it to separate activities and see at a glance by colour what the shape of my day ia like.
