I've used Google Calendar to track postproduction of a limited series.
It works fine for listing and displaying strictly time-defined
information like deadlines, or bookings for edit suites, or times
worked by individuals. But AFAIK there's lots it will *not* do:
* There's no simple way to track "to do" items with ill-defined times.
So if you know you need to import graphics for Show 5 on April 18 at
9am, sure, stick it in the calendar in the 4/18 9am slot. But if you
just want to note that it has to be done sometime during the week of
April 18, you must either list it as taking up all day every day that
week, or you have to arbitrarily put it on April 18, and then manually
move it forward to the next day if it doesn't get done by the end of
the 18th.
* You can only search and retrieve text-based data, so you can't get
at numbers, even if they are time-based. So for instance, if you want
to know when and editor named Jim Jones was listed you can search the
calendar for "Jim Jones" and you'll get every event where "Jim Jones"
was listed, and you can click on that event and see the start and end
times. *BUT* you can't search for "every event where 'Jim Jones' is
listed and where the end time is over 8 hours after the start time" if
for instance you want to know whether he was booked for OT. Google
Calendar is *not* a database.
* Google Calendar is realtime so it's great for group scheduling. But
it only knows *now* and has no memory. You can't store and retrieve
individual events or whole calendars. So I've resorted to printing
PDFs to "snapshot" the calendar for reference. Reminds me of the old
days when a post house would have a big whiteboard & would have to
shoot a Polaroid every day for the files.
I use Google Calendar every day. If its limited features suffice
for your needs, you'll like it.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Terence Curren <tcurren@aol.com> wrote:
> I've seen people do this with Google Calendar. It's free and all entitled parties can access it from the web wherever they are.
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