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Layered Calendars
What are layered calendars?
Multi-layered calendars allow you to use one calendar and one color for each person or project in your world but see them all together as if they were on one calendar like your paper calendar. But, because each color is actually a distinct calendar, you can filter on and off the calendars in any combination that you need to see. Need to see everyone in your family on one screen? Or, need to focus just on the children and child care issues? Or, need to just see you, your work and your schedule?
How to create or start a calendar in PlumLife?
On the Calendar Tab, look on the left side of the screen where the DEFAULT CALENDAR has already been created for you. Click on Add A Calendar.
You will be asked to give the Calendar a Name, tell it which time zone it "lives" in and by clicking on the colored square, you can select its color.
Save. Your calendar now displays in the list of Calendars which can be turned on or off with a click.
If you are advanced and want to create a calendar which sends information out to other calendars or receives information in, instead of selecting Save, choose Next.
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Why are layered calendars useful?
All Calendars filtered "on"
Single Calendar View
Create a New Calendar
Other calendars offer the ability to turn off and on layers, but PlumLife layered calendars are actually separate calendars. Having the ability to isolate information by calendar allows you to print, export or display only the information that each person needs. You can give your husband only the family activities that he needs to be aware of rather than giving him the master calendar and asking him to filter out “his” stuff. Isolate your children’s calendars from your personal activities so you can share only their activities with the sitter or your mother when she is caring for them.
Because each calendar represents a person (or project), sometimes you want to see it in combination with other people's schedules. Other times, you may want to isolate the information and share only that data.
Image 1 shows an image of all calendars turned "on" so I, command central, can trouble shoot when sitters are needed or schedule the plumber on a day that my housekeeper is there to meet him.
Image 2 shows an isolated calendar. This calendar can be posted to a private URL on the web so that others to whom I give the URL can view it. (Think Nanny or Granny). It can be printed out to leave on the counter when you are out of town. It can be exported and sent to another person. Or, you can set this one calendar to feed into another. So, I can set this one calendar, my spouse's home calendar, to constantly update his work calendar so he and his assistant know when he needs to be at a soccer game or conference. Likewise, I can get my spouse to set up a feed from his travel calendar at work (assuming that system can support Publishing) so that the calendar I keep for him at home is updated when he adds travel to it.
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