Laura’s Blog

During the past few days, I’ve booked two speaking gigs for 2011. Only one problem: I’m an old-fashioned paper calendar user, and I don’t have a 2011 calendar yet!

Fortunately, someone recommended a web-based 2011 calendar to me out of the blue. You’ll find it at http://www.calendar-365.com.

Calendar-365

This is a good quick-reference tool, because you can display (and print) yearly calendars from 2009-2015. The site also shows the following info for each year:

• Daylight Saving Time start and end dates
• Holidays
• Leap years
• Seasons start and end dates
• Week number (this is week #37 of 2010, in case you’re wondering)
• Moon phases
• World clock
• You can also calculate the number of days, months, and years between two dates

Calendars That Work

My favorite printable weekly calendar is at http://www.calendarsthatwork.com. At this site, you can either pay $20 for a year’s worth of Full Access to all their different calendars, or you can download 22 different styles of FREE sample calendars.

If you type your e-mail address in the form that appears on the individual Sample Calendar pages, they’ll send you a monthly reminder to download the following month’s calendar(s). I’ve subscribed to this free service for several years and I absolutely love it. The best part is that they never try to sell me anything.

TeuxDeux

Another online calendar I can’t live without is http://teuxdeux.com. I test-drove this handy tool about 9 months ago on my blog, and it has become an essential part of my online toolbox. In fact, I keep TeuxDeux (pronounced to do) open in my browser at all times.

With teux deux, it’s super easy to:

• add new items to my to-do list
• move items to a different date
• cross off and delete completed items (I get great satisfaction in doing that!)
• jump forwards and backwards a week at a time
• jump to a specific calendar date

If I don’t complete items on my list (which usually happens), TeuxDeux automatically moves them to the following date when the clock strikes midnight. I’ve virtually eliminated the scraps of paper that contain my to-do list and have one nice, clean list at TeuxDeux.

What about you, dear readers? Do you have a favorite web-based calendar/planning tool to recommend?