Google Calendar: Little Known Ways To Get More From GCal

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Very few of us use Google Calendar in our daily lives. The foremost problem is that most of us aren’t familiar to it and we couldn’t figure out the difference between GCal and a outlook/desk calendar. However, there is more to GCal than meets the eye.

Google Calendar can prove to be a productive resource by saving time and organizing stuff. Let’s look at some of the little known facts that will help you for certain :

Google Calendar Links : Login into GCal

You can use the following links to login into GCal:

http://www.google.com/calendar/render

http://calendar.google.com

or just click this link on top of Gmail.

Get GCal on Your Mobile

You can use google’s calendar in your mobile phone by this link : m.google.com/calendar

Now, you must be wondering, what’s the use of GCal on mobile when you already have one on phone? The next section answers this.

Synchronize Your Mobile Calendar with GCal

There are two ways to sync your mobile calendar with GCal. The official application synchronizes your calendar alerts and contacts with Google account. You can get it here. However, this application works with limited phones.

The unofficial java application synchronizes your phones in-built calendar with Google’s Calendar and it works with most of the phones that support java apps. You can get it here.

Get Outlook Calendar in Sync with GCal

You can download the official and free application to synchronize GCal with Outlook from here.

Else, you can use this paid application, which provides certain additional features but comes with the price.

Learn to Stay Organized

This mashable tutorial gives you a quick lesson on how to stay organized on GCal.

Use Google Calendar Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut Key	Definition	Action
?	Shortcuts menu	Brings up a menu of keyboard shortcuts
c	Create Event	Allows you to create a new event.
/	Search	Places your cursor in the search box
p or j	Previous date range	Moves your calendar view to the previous date range
n or k	Next date range	Moves your calendar view to the next date range
t	Jump to “Today”	Moves you to the current day
d	“Day” view	Displays your calendar in the “Day” view
x	Customized view	Displays your calendar in a customized view
w	“Week” view	Displays your calendar in the “Week” view
m	“Month” view	Displays your calendar in the “Month” view
a	“Agenda” view	Displays your calendar in the “Agenda” view
q	Quick Add	Opens “Quick Add”
s	Settings	Brings you to your Google Calendar “Settings” page