Have a hard time managing your busy schedule? Here’s how to setup a calendaring system accessible from anywhere…

Your life is busy and you have enough on your plate without meeting to remember to move your car every week, pay phone bills, or show up for appointments. Luckily, a finely tuned calendaring system can help.

Take a service like Google Calendar. With the right setup, you can access it from any Web browser, plug it into your favorite desktop calendar, and manage it from your phone so you can quickly add any item to your schedule no matter where you are. Of course, scheduling is just one half of the picture. Remembering your appointments is the other. And that’s the best part of this system: You’ll receive alerts reminding you of all your scheduled events, no matter where you are or what you’re doing.

The Setup

Google Calendar can be managed from Web, from your desktop or from your phone, so you’ll have bulletproof system for keeping on top of your schedule. If you don’t have a Google account, you’ll need to sign up for one before using Google Calendar.

First, let’s take a minute to get familiar with Google Calendar and some of its handier features.

Use Quick Add to Translate Your To-Do List

Fed up with the normal steps of remembering an event, Google Calendar’s Quick Add feature is for you.  Type a plain language appointment like “Pick up dry cleaning from A One Dry Cleaners” and rest Google Calendar will do it for you, converting it to an event with date and time.

For events in calendar people like to notify ahead of time, you can do this with Google Calendar just click Settings, Calendar Settings, and Calendars; find the calendar you want to set notifications for and you are done.

Use Calendar in Your Google Apps

If you’re a user of Gmail, Google Calendar can save you even more time. Gmail automatically recognizes when the text of an email suggests an event or appointment and provides you Quick Add link which will create an appointment for your Google Calendar.

Remember Recurring Events

Whether it’s a birthday, anniversary or payment of monthly bills Google Calendar will not let you lose.  To setup recurring-event notifications so you’ll never forget them, either add a note about recurring activity or click the Create Event button and set your recurring schedule in the repeat section.

Stay Synced With Outlook

If you use Microsoft Outlook, just download Google Calendar Sync http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=89955 . Enter your Google Calendar username and password, and it will take care of syncing your calendar data with Outlook.

Connect Your Calendar to Your Cell Phone

Since you’re not always sitting in front of computer do its best to get notifications or set updates right from your phone. Either you have a dump phone of a cutting-edge smart phone here how you can add your appointments.

Sync with Smartphones

If you have an iPhone, BlachBerry or Nokia S60 you can synchronize your phone’s calendar with Google Calendar, head over to Google Sync page (http://www.google.com/mobile/sync ) and follow the setup instructions for your device.

Check Your Calendar and Add Events via SMS

Don’t have a fancy smartphone? No problem. You can still get notifications, set your notifications, check your calendar, and add an event to your calendar from any phone that supports SMS.

First, head your Google Calendar settings and associate them with your cell phone. Goto Settings, Calendar Settings, Mobile Setup and follow Google’s instruction for validating your phone. Once your phone is validated you can send event notifications or add events via SMS.

Conclusion

The system mentioned above isn’t the only calendaring system under the sun, but Google Calendar is the best free way to create a fast-syncing schedule minder that you can access from virtually anywhere. And above all you’ll never ever miss to pay your phone bill again .