Every year, there are more and more applications and gadgets for time management and daily planning. What are the most popular ones? Find the hottest trends of planning 2009 in our article.

Online planners and organizers

The key point of today’s planning and organizing is sharing. And online schedulers are the best solution for sharing and aggregating information. That’s why online planning tools are getting to remain popular in 2009. A variety of existing web tools includes to-do list creators, project managers, time managers, personal assistants and many more. Look through this ultimate list of web based applications for getting organized to find your perfect online solution.

Using iCalendars

Calendars in iCal (.ics) format become more and more popular because of some reasons:

• they can be easily shared and synced not only with PCs, but with such mobile devices as iPhone, iPod, PDA, various Bluetooth or USB connected mobile phones, etc.;
• users can subscribe to iCalendars for auto-synchronizing and keeping track of upcoming events;
• iCalendar data can be exchanged using email, can be shared over the Internet and embedded into web pages, can be shared and edited by using a WebDav server;
• iCalendar was designed so that various companies’ calendar products can import and export calendar data, communicate events, to-do lists.

Screen Calendar software supports iCal format and allows easy subscribing to iCalendar sources and synchronizing iCalendar events with the desktop calendar. One of the most known online iCalendars today is Google Calendar. Screen Calendar gives user offline access to Google Calendar or any other iCalendar events, allows synchronizing with both remote (web located) and local iCal sources, allows easy editing events and export them to .ics file for further adding them to any web iCalendar, e.g. Google Calendar.

Mobile applications for time management

Mobile software applications are at their peak because mobile devices are in demand. As iPhone, mobile phone or pocket PC is what you always have with you, many people prefer scheduling right in mobile devices. There are great places to find:

• iPhone and iPod Touch task managers;
• Pocket PC time management tools;
• Smartphone task managers.

Desktop 2009 planners

Even though mobile and web applications are the top trend of the coming year, desktop calendar and planner 2009 is still a must-have. Desktop planning calendar can be a place for aggregating information from all your devices. Desktop is what we look at most often, isn’t it? Desktop calendar planner allows handling schedule and to-do lists immediately on a desktop without opening separate program windows. Screen Calendar is a desktop application for daily and monthly planning which helps you to keep track of all the upcoming events, has a reminder option, supports synchronizing with MS Outlook and iCalendars, creates .ics files for further exporting them, etc. Also, Screen Calendar is a desktop and wallpaper manager, so it lets you plan your time in the most pleasant and stylish way.

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