I was thrilled when I first found EasilyDo, a productivity app for the iPhone platform.
You can do some pretty crazy stuff with it — not only does it mind your calendar, but it tracks packages,
creates address book contacts and clears duplicates, tracks
birthdays and RSVP requests from Facebook, events, invitations, and reservation confirmations that
arrive in your email, and even texts when you leave your current location. Highway commute? EasilyDo
will estimate your drive time for you before you leave for work!
Pretty sweet, right??
The features I liked the most were advance warning of Facebook friends' birthdays (You simply tell EasilyDo
what you want to post and at what time, it EasilyDo will post it on your behalf! Brilliant!) and the feature
which will text a specific message when you leave a location — it's great for letting Laurel know I'm
on my way home from work without me having to call!
Then the love soured, and EasilyDo became IncrediblyAnnoying for this one reason: I track multiple
calendars on my phone — my calendar, my wife's calendar, a shared calendar with our daughter's events,
a separate calendar for recurring bills... you get the idea. My wife's calendar is awful, because
her schedule changes almost every day. Because EasilyDo simply hooked into everything your phone
was tracking, I received notifications throughout the day of when she was scheduled for breaks and
meetings and so forth — things I really really didn't need to be alerted about. And by "need", I mean
"want."
But then, last night, something magical happened — an update! An update which allows you to specify
which calendars you want EasilyDo to track!!! MIRACULOUS!!! Now EasilyDo and I are besties again!
Links:
EasilyDo.com
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