Yahoo! Hacks

Manage and Share Your Schedule

Yahoo! Calendar can help you plan your time, manage an event, remember important events, and share your schedule with friends and family.

When you lead a busy life, time management isn’t just an important skill; it’s necessary for survival. Without the ability to track important dates and times, you could miss out on key events. While you can accomplish some time management with a pencil-and-paper calendar, once your schedule is digital, you can do much more. Yahoo! Calendar Can act as your own personal assistant: reminding you of important dates and times, inviting your friends to a party, and helping your contacts plan a meeting time that’s convenient for you.

Yahoo! Calendar (http://calendar.yahoo.com) is one piece of Yahoo! Mail, and you can view your calendar at any time by clicking on the Calendar tab at Yahoo! Mail. As you’d expect, you’ll find a calendar there that you can view by the Day, Week, Month, or Year. Your Yahoo! Calendar becomes useful when you start adding personal events.

Adding Events

There are a few ways to add events to your calendar, and an overview will help you know when to use each method of adding events.

Event options.

To add a detailed event to your calendar, click the Add Event button at the top of any Yahoo! Calendar page. From there, you’ll find the Add Event form that contains all of the options available for an event. Here’s a look at the available fields:

Title

You can include a descriptive title for an event, but keep ...