GoogleDog?

I really love Google. I love the search engine, I love my Gmail, I love Google Notebook, and now I love Google Calendar.

Google as useful pet app

These last couple of weeks I've realized that I need more than the Vet booklet to keep track of things I want or need to remember for Sky, and decided that I needed to buy a diary/agenda sort of thing... but I sort of dragged my feet, because I didn't feel like spending 20 Euros on a cute diary from the local bookstore with the year half over, and I didn't feel like using some hideous wall calendar or other free thingy. Then I remembered Google Calendar, which I had checked out long ago, but didn't really have a use for. Great idea! Much better than a paper version because you can search, you can look at everything at once by day/week/month, as well as four-day period, and an agenda list - and you can have it send you alerts for things you need to remember. Perfect!

one view of my Google calendar

So, for example, if I make an entry for each time Sky is weighed at the Vet, and put "Sky Weight - (howevermany) kilos", and I want to search and see her whole weight history, I just enter "Sky" and "weight" into the search field, and each of those will come up in a list. Very, very handy. And you can have as many calendars as you like, so you can have one just for your pet if you'd like, and be as obsessive or as casual as you'd like about what you keep track of. I have Vet visit information, baths, medication (just eye ointment at the moment - to see about clearing up her very persistent eye goobers), anti-flea/tick applications; diet info; weight info; Vet blood test results; vaccinations. And alerts for things I need to remember. I love.

I also love Google Notebook, because I am always coming across internet information I want to keep track of and sort into useful piles, and bookmarks just don't cut it for me for various reasons. So I have several Google Notebooks - one for recipes, one for art and images, one for health-related items, one for Greece and Athens related info, one for web design and CSS, one for stuff my husband would be interested in, one for books, and of course - one for Sky. In her notebook, I have several folders: Vet (things to ask my Vet about; articles to send her, etc.), Grooming, Food, Health, Training, Local resources, and Blog (for things I might want to include here). Very helpful for taming information overload and tucking away all sorts of things I'll want to refer to.