Whether you are constantly juggling appointments or you just want to be sure to remember your wedding anniversary, this free program is for you. It is also perfect for starting off the New Year on the right foot or for getting organized at anytime of year.

The Google Calendar is an online calendar, so you can access it from any Internet-connected computer. It has most of the functionality of other calendar programs, including the calendar portion of the popular Microsoft Outlook program. You can quickly add events and create recurring events. So it is easy to add that weekly meeting or that important birthday and have it appear on the calendar each week or each year as appropriate.

The Google calendar will give you popup reminders, send you e-mail reminders, or send a text message to your cell phone as a reminder. Like most other calendar programs you can change the view from daily to weekly or monthly. The calendar will also let you view four days at a time or see an agenda-type of text list of your events. You can create multiple calendars, color-code them, and merge them together. You can make your calendars private, public, or choose the people you want to share them with. When you share with others, you decide if they will be able to add or change events or not.

This means that the Google Calendar is perfect for families or other groups of people like church groups or bowling leagues. For family-type groups, each person can view and update the calendar whether they are at work, at home, or at school. For other groups everyone can view the events from any Internet-connected computer while only the person in charge is able to change them.

You can create calendars for all of the things in your life....the due dates on your bills, anniversaries and birthdays, personal events, business appointments. You can put this all on one calendar or you can put it on separate calendars and easily merge them together to see all of them at once.

This feature can be very useful. For instance, you may want to keep all of your appointments and events on one calendar. Then create another for your financial due dates. When you just want to look at your main calendar you can easily do that. With the click of a button you can also see your finance calendar events either separately or right on your main calendar. The same can be done for personal calendars and calendars from various groups that you may belong to.

If you are already using Outlook and would like to change to the Google Calendar, Google gives you step-by-step instructions in their calendar support area. They also have a comprehensive help section that explains everything you need to know about the functionality of the calendar and how to use it.

Another nice feature is the fact that if you use the free Google toolbar in your Internet browser, you can add a calendar button to the toolbar for one-click access to any of your calendars.

All-in-all, this is a wonderful free program that can help you get organized. Your spouse will thank you when you remember that anniversary and your new way of event tracking may help you really feel on top of things.