Google Calendar is a free web and mobile calendar that enables you to track your events and share your calendars with others. It is a perfect tool for managing personal and professional schedules. As powerful as it is, it is also simple to use.

If you have a Google account or Gmail, you already have access to a Google Calendar. All you need to do is go to calendar.google.com or open the mobile app on your phone to start using it.

I’m a freelance worker, how can Google Calendar help me?

One of the first things you need to figure out when you start as a freelancer is learning to manage your workload. You either do this, or you’ll crash. This is more so for African freelancers, where unreliable electricity or weak WiFi may make it difficult to deliver timely projects to clients.

With the use of Google calendar, you can make balancing situations at home and international timezones easier.

One of the first things you need to figure out when you start as a freelancer is learning to manage your workload. You either do this, or you’ll crash. This is more so for African freelancers, where unreliable electricity or weak WiFi may make it difficult to deliver timely projects to clients.

With the use of Google calendar, you can make balancing situations at home and international timezones easier.

Do you work with teammates who live around the world?

You might find it challenging to figure out what time is appropriate to schedule meetings with them. Fortunately, the World Clock” in your Google Calendar settings can help with this. You can set appointments that don’t fall on holidays or inappropriate times. For example, it won’t be wise to schedule a video call on Halloween or the 4th of July with an American, would it?

This way, you get to arrange deadlines that work for particular clients in particular regions with some foreknowledge. Enable your world clock.
For client relations purposes, you can share well wishes on country-specific holidays. You shouldn’t send a Happy Canadian Day greeting to an American client if you can help it. Google calendar helps you know when to wait for a response to an email or message due to holiday seasons in specific locations.

The Enable Working Hours feature is a setting that alerts clients if they try to add you to a meeting that lies outside a range of hours set by you in Google Calendar. This way, your clients, regardless of where they are, can’t set up a meeting at 4am in your time zone.

Google Calendar also allows freelancers to set start and end times for each project. This way, you can see all pending projects at a glance and see if you can take on new ones.

Pros

• Easy sharing, alerts, gazillion integrations, and simple to use.
• Downloads important information about appointments, flights, etc. automatically from Gmail.
• Accessible on PC and iPhone.
• It provides multiple types of notifications for scheduled events.

Cons

• The weekly view can appear unappealing and cluttered.