I recently started using iCal more often because of all the excellent teleseminars & courses I’ve been signing up to attend. I am rather scatterbrained so remembering stuff (even stuff I want to do) is a little difficult for me. I’m notorious for forgetting about doctor appointments and even classes I’m teaching.

iCal is fantastic because I can sync it with my iPhone and it’s generally easy to use.

However, I use Gmail for all of my e-course/teleclass registrations.

So in order to remember the date, time & call-in info, I had to open iCal, create a new event, type in all the information.

Despite how easy it is to add events, it’s still way too many steps, and I’d often forget to add them.

So one day I looked at the upper right hand corner of my Gmail screen when I had an event confirmation email open, and there was a link right there asking me if I wanted to add the event to my Google Calendar.
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