Syncing Spouse's schedule / Daycare

[stressed dad]

Any ideas on how to approach the problem of syncing
schedules for child care, social etc. with your spouse?

Scenario:
- Both of us are Outlook (2003) users (on Notebooks)
- Both have pocket PCs for moment to moment use
- I work in the private sector, on corporate-based
exchange server for mail, outlook etc., locally synched
(I'm the 9-5er with some travel)
- My spouse is a paramedic, so her email is Pop3 based,
with local outlook (with a crazy shift based schedule)

I'd LIKE to be able to have access to the families
calenders to sync up schedules, day care etc.

Add to this soup the complexity of letting the
daycare/nanny know when she is required/days off.

I've EVEN considered setting up our 18 month old daughter
with HER OWN Outlook calender to ensure we
have "coverage" for day care!!

any ideas???

Thanks
S.D.

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

Wow...stressed doesn't really cover it for you, does it?

You might want to take a look at some of the following articles and see if
they give you any ideas on how you could possibly handle these issues:

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.htm

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MVP - Outlook

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[Guest]

I think I can help you out. I'm a firefighter and my wife is a nurse. We
both work shifts. Mine is a standard rotation that I set up using
recurrences. My wife signs up for shifts around my schedule - I use copy and
paste to put her days in.

We use one master calendar on my PC and add other family events for kids,
etc. from there. I then export the calendar as a .pst file and import it to
my laptop, her PC and e-mail the file to my work PC. We can then sync both
of our PDAs on our individual PCs.

It sounds like a lot of work, but keeping one "Master" helps with avoiding
duplication and conflicts. I usually update, export and sync about twice per
week. Takes me no more than 5 minutes each time.

Let me know if this helps. I don't post or read here too often though.

Dan