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Last week, due to a work fire drill, I cancelled a much needed catchup coffee date with a girlfriend, also a working mama. Her reply when my raincheck text came in?

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“Np, I’ll remove your slot from my Outlook”.

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Laughing out loud I texted back: “Um, are you joking? Tell me you didn’t input our 20 minute coffee catchup into your online calendar?!”

.“Of course not. I synched with my iPad.”, she touch typed.

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I’ll admit, I keep an electronic calendar handy through my Hotmail account, but mainly it’s used for the bigger stuff – you know kids meet ups, key dates off the school calendar, a much needed kayak escape I’ve penciled in months ago. This system of mine was chugging along just fine, until one day I couldn’t login to Hotmail due to some maintenance going on. With only one day reminders setup, I almost missed an event going on at my daughter’s school! Fortunately, my neighbor (also a working mom) saved the day and all was back on track again.

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Ironically, a few weeks ago I bellowed a jolly laugh after learning of the dinosaur scheduling system she used.

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A big boxy old-fashioned calendar taped to her kitchen cabinet; simply color coded based on each member of her family. “It works.“, she said.

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I get that. Still I couldn’t convert. I changed my Hotmail calendar to 3 day reminders and my world is well again.

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So here I am reaching out to IOS readers. How do you manage your “busy”? Take our 5 minute survey and do tell!