Using emojis in your Calendar app for visual ease and a quick glance reminder

OK, so sitting in Sunday school, my girlfriend had pulled out her phone to set herself a reminder, and I was so impressed by how she did it. Us moms are all here learning together on ways to make our lives easier and when we find one out, we just need to share it.

She too, is a Mama of four and has lots of schedules to juggle as well as lots of traveling sports as well as a traveling husband for work. When I looked over and saw how her calendar was organized, I immediately knew I needed to adopt that. 

So here is a glance of how I have adopted her tip into my calendar... 

She first starts with an emoji before typing what the calendar item is.

Example;

🤸‍♀️ gymnastics practice

⛳️ golf lessons

🌮 dinner date

Etc., etc.  by having an emoji first, it gives your brain a quick glance of what it is and I can see a visual to-do list. The next idea that I thought was brilliant, was for the location. She adds the arrival time and departure time. Otherwise, for instance, for a flight if you’ve got a click on it and see oh yeah, that leaves at this time this comes in at this time yada yada yada. This gives a quick glance as to what timeframe you’re looking at. Otherwise, you can still use the location so that you know where it is going to be, I just thought that this made so much sense in some areas of planning.

Obviously, you can click on the item and it will give you all the details, however, in a busy day that would mean, pausing clicking, pausing clicking, you know how it goes. Lots of the time we are either driving or doing something and we don’t want to have to pause and click on something to figure out where and when we need to be there. By having these details in the location, it automatically populates on the screen without needing to click.

So just one more visual to see how this really does make sense: 

And that’s it just a quick and simple tip to share as we are all in the same boat juggling lots of balls in the air. Our calendar is key and if you get it all down and out of your brain, it relieves so much time and stress so that you can accomplish something else rather than spending extra time over and over again remembering where you need to be, and when.

I might have been there and I do know that.

Xo, 

Mama