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Hard Landscape

Do you put your "hard landscape" on your calendar? Particularly, I'm talking about the work schedules, class schedules, etc. that don't change for months at a time. My school schedule obviously changes every term, but after a week or two, I have it down and don't really need to look at my calendar for it. Of course, I track appointments and meetings and the like in my calendar, but sometimes, my repeating schedule just gets in the way and overwhelms me when I'm looking at iCal, so I end up turning it off. Any thoughts?

PS - I'm wondering if I shouldn't have made this a poll.

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My hard landscape lives in...

My hard landscape lives in iCal and gets synced to my mobile phone.

But my daily grind can be different every day, depending on what I have to do, so it makes sense to have that portion of my GTD workflow in digital formats, plus that way I can check my Wife's calendar too (since I subscribe to her 'hard landscape' calendar but don't push that one to my mobile)

 
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