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For those of you who prefer not to deal with reality, go back to your book on the beach and stop reading this immediately!
Don't hate us, but we gotta bring this up. School is only weeks--for some of you it could be days-- away and with that comes the hustle and much dreaded bustle of inputting non -down-loadable PDF school forms into the calendar. We know what you're thinking: "Stop the bus, please, I want off at the next stop."
If you're like me, you have no recollection of the beginning of school last year; it was nothing short of a blissful race from back-to-school night to meet-the-teacher to buy-the-team-uniform and way more fun than I ever dreamed. Before I knew it, my online calendar was filled with electronic sticky notes and my email inundated with more data than ever.
This year, I'm determined to do things a little differently. I pledge to get all my children's school dates on the calendar as they are sent to me. I feel the need to declare this publicly, in front of my organizing pals, so I'm held accountable, in much the same way I might publicly declare I'm giving up sugar for the afternoon (hey, I'd like to actually achieve my goal.)
This year, I'll be using PlumLife's bulk entry system to enter all the team schedules and meetings that can't be automatically down loaded into my calendar. I know, I know...yes, I work for this great online calendar company so why haven't I used this feature before? Well, for the same reason my good friend who's worked for The Container Store for 20 years doesn't have a house that's uh, contained.
Designed like an excel spreadsheet, I'm able to easily enter recurring practices for my children, staff meetings at work or volunteer commitments. I've already begun the process of recording my oldest son's football practice by going to my calendar tab, clicking on the "create" and then the "bulk entry" buttons on the left hand column of the calendar and filling in the information. And just like a spreadsheet, PlumLife's bulk e
ntry will auto fill the next line with the same information until I change, in this case, the date. Once I've finished recording all his practices, the dates are automatically put on my calendar AND my son's calendar. What used to take me an hour to do, now only takes me about 10 minutes. Presto chango! I'm finished in no time at all!
So now that I've publicly made the pledge to get all the miscellany into my PlumLife, I'm counting on all you experts to hold me to it. But could you give me til the end of September to git er dun?
Leslie Carr, Director of Marketing at Plumlife
& Busy Mom
[email protected]
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