How to use Google Calendar as a diary of his life

Usually we use a variety of electronic calendars as a tool for planning and organizing your time, that is, to control their future. However, this tool is not less useful for fixing your past, that is to be used as a diary. In this article you will find some ideas on how you can use Google Calendar in this role. After a little tweaking and adding additional services, he will turn into your own personal auto chronicler, impartially and diligently recording the contents of your days.

If the diary we will use Google Calendar, it will handle the already familiar IFTTT. We have repeatedly written about this wonderful service, so we will not be repeated again, and we will send a novice to this article.

blog blogger

One of the main qualities as a beginning blogger and an experienced network journalist - is persistence. You must write every day, regardless of the time of inspiration, physical condition, and the only way to achieve good results. To evaluate the success of their blog writing practice will help release your articles or blog entries. It's enough to send the RSS of your blog, or an online edition in Google Calendar. You can configure the trigger in such a way that it only works on your publication, and then the output of each of your articles will be marked by an entry in his diary.

athlete's diary

Any athlete knows how important it is to comply with the training schedule and not miss classes. However, the brain tells treacherously every time it's a new excuse, and as a result it turns out that scheduled training is transferred first once, then a second, and then you look - even week I passed. In order to objectively assess the performance of your training schedule, convenient to mark them in your calendar.

You can do this in several ways. Since none that I know of sports apps does not have a channel in IFTTT, we will use their ability to send tweets after each workout. Just connect your Twitter and create a recipe that will catch the message with a specific keyword and create on their basis of the event.

You can go the other way and use the mobile app for Android or iPhone. They have the ability to create events based on your geographic location. So if you go to the gym or run all the time on the same route, it is possible not only to make a calendar entry of the training, but also to celebrate the time of its beginning and end.

Diary of calls and SMS

If your job is in constant contact or contacts you need to register with a particular person, it is also possible to do with the calendar. In IFTTT directory has two special channels operating with calls and text messaging. With their help, you can store in Google Calendar as the general information about your phone activity and log on a specific user.

blog gardener

Everyone knows how important for gardening works are weather events. For example, suppose that the beds should be watered every third day, but only if it was previously not rain and the temperature did not drop below a certain point. To avoid confusion in these rates, it is possible to use a special recipe, which is every day to keep a summary of the weather in your calendar.

In this article, I deliberately did not bring ready-made recipes, and only shared some ideas for using IFTTT ligament - Google Calendar to fix the various events of his life. The capabilities of these two services are so vast that our readers can easily come up with more than one example of such an application, and I hope to share with us in the comments.