Tag: Calendar

Many believe, and rightly so, that prioritizing life events in a calendar is not only cleaner but also more effective than using endless to-do lists. Let’s ask why it is more effective. Calendars don’t foster the bad habit of ending up with overdue tasks, a common pitfall of to-do app...

Google Calendar, like Shangzong in Mortal Kombat, can replace several services. You can’t have a calendar without a Google account, which gives us even more tools in the ecosystem. The key advantage of the calendar is the ability to see the time. Therefore, treat its functions carefully in ord...

When you’re getting started with Scrum, one of the first things you are going to want to do (other than understand the 4 values of the Agile Manifesto, the 12 principles behind it and the 5 Scrum core values ) is to set up your Scrum events in your team ...

Do you want to pull all meetings & events from your or any shared Google calendar via the Google calendar API in Python? This blogpost provides step-for-step instructions on how to setup authentication, request calendar events and handle the pagination token. For th...

If you’re using Google Calendar for any part of your business, you’ll want to know about some recent productivity enhancements Google has added to Google Workspace (formerly G Suite, Google’s cloud-based office suite). Even if you don’t — maybe you’re a Microso...

One of the most striking features of the Hindu calendar system is its intricacy. It offers a multi-dimensional method of structuring time, combining information about lunar days, solar days, lunar months, solar months, the movements of the Sun and the Moon about stellar constellations, and other ast...

Last week, we talked about Mid-Autumn Day’s origin as a harvest celebration based on the Chinese lunar calendar. One of you asked me to elaborate more on the concept of lunar calendar, especially given its significance and implications in many aspects of the Asian culture. Many ancient civi...

The Maya calendar comprises various cycles, including the Tzolkin, a 260-day count, synchronized with the 365-day Haabʼ, forming the 52 Haabʼ Calendar Round. Still in use in the Guatemalan highlands, this system was complemented by the Long Count, tracking days since a mythological starting point ...

Galileo died on January 8, 1642, and on Christmas Day of that same year, Isaac Newton was born. Back in 1616, two extremely famous playwrights (among their other literary endeavors), Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare, died just one day apart: April 22 for Cervantes, and April 23 for Shakes...