4 Steps to keep your family calendar in sync
Like everyone, we have busy schedules. That’s why we need synchronized calendars. The problem is that I (and most people in the work force) use the calendar in Microsoft Outlook. Outlook does not play well with other calendars. Here’s how we got around that. (Now that I think about it – this would make a great post for “Works For Me Wednesday”, a great blog carnival hosted by We Are That Family where every Wednesday people post tips about what works for them.
Step 1. You and your spouse each sign up for Google Calendar:
Step 2. Share your calendars with each other.
Login to calendar and click settings in the upper right. Then click the shared settings:
Under “share with specific people” enter your spouses email address and select the option to “Make Changes to Events”. This means your spouse can see your calendar and add events to your calendar (important).
Step 3. Add events to each others calendars
Now that you have access to each others calendars, you can start filling them out.
If you need your spouse to know about a certain event, you can add it to their calendar as well. There are two ways to do this, you can either “invite them to the event” or you can create an event, click “edit details” then change the calendar to your spouses calendar. This will make it automatically show up on their calendar.
Step 4. Synchronize with Outlook
Now you can see each others calendars, but it doesn’t do any good if your spouse uses Outlook, because he/she will never see your new calendar. The trick here is to have your spouse install Google Calendar sync. This will sync up his/her Outlook calendar and the new Google Calendar you created.
