 Summer vacation season is almost over. How to
collect your thoughts after summer relax and settle down for the next year of
hard work? How not to forget anything? How to manage time easily and enjoyably?
The most effective solution for time planning is calendar planner
software, such as Screen
Calendar software, which integrates
task scheduler into your desktop wallpaper and always keeps your schedule
at your fingertips. Here are 7 tips for the most effective time planning with
an interactive desktop calendar.
1. Make the planner calendar a
part of your daily routine.
Get used to check your task scheduler every
morning and every evening. Check and edit daily schedule in the
morning. It will be great if you get into the habit of looking through your
daily tasks immediately after turning on your computer. In the evening, postpone
tasks you haven’t complete today for the next day or for another day –
Screen Calendar’s
Postpone option
lets you to postpone tasks with a few mouse clicks.
2. Everything must be put in
your planner calendar, don’t miss out anything.
If you use Screen Calendar as a
business calendar, you may think that your personal affairs have nothing
to do with your scheduler and you haven’t to put such tasks as picking up your
child from the school or visiting dentist in the calendar. You’re wrong. You
must put in everything that takes up your time. It’s the only way to
realize how much time you really have for work and to manage both work and
personal life. Screen Calendar lets you reduce the length
of scheduler
line up to 5 minutes, so that you can
put in even the shortest event.
3. Set reminders for every
task.
You can forget even about the appointment you’re
desperately waiting for. Don’t rely upon your memory. It’s better to set a
reminder and be sure you won’t miss the time. If you don’t want to use
sound reminder, you can set Screen Calendar to show
message as a reminder or even to run application you need at the
proper time. Also, you can choose more than one
remind action
for one event and select whatever sound file as a sound
reminder.
4. Break large tasks into
smaller ones.
When you mark the date of submitting quarterly
report in your task scheduler, it will be a little help for you. The more
effective way is to break this large task into small manageable parts and put
each of them in a calendar planner. For example,
mark the dates
when you have to start gathering data for your report, the
dates of first and final checkups, etc. This will help you to manage your
assignments more effectively.
5. Repeat recurring events and develop a
routine.
Using
Repeat option
of Screen Calendar to repeat recurring
events not only saves your time for everyday planning but also helps you to
develop a routine. Why is routine so important for successful time
management? Effective routine means better organization and less stress, thus,
you can increase the efficiency of your work and get more things done. Screen
Calendar allows repeating events every day, week, month or year, choose
weekdays and days of a month for repeating events – so, you can easily set any
time interval for repeating.
6. Set time limits for your
tasks.
Of course, you can’t set time limit for
stockholders’ meeting (if you’re not a principal stockholder :)). But you can
limit such tasks as ‘surfing web and reading news’. When such task is not
limited in time, it can take your whole working day. To save time for most
important tasks, set time limit, put the next task into the scheduler and
don’t forget to set a reminder, especially if you’re an easily carried away
person.
7. Use all the functions of calendar
scheduling software to increase its productivity.
Basic functions of calendar software (scheduler, reminder etc.) are what you need every day for
time planning. But advanced options of Screen Calendar give you more
possibilities for the easiest and the most effective time management. Use
data import and
export to synchronize your records
with MS Outlook or iCalendar (e.g. Google Calendar). Use
print option
to get printable planning calendar or to print
your notes. Use built-in
wallpaper changer
and
desktop icons manager
, choose favorite
background and calendar
skin to create pleasant working
atmosphere. Change calendar size
and position,
choose desired transparency, fonts and
colors and
customize your task
scheduler to create desktop calendar
planner which best meets your needs.
Take control of your time and your life with
Screen Calendar
software.
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