Tips for being organised working parents?

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I'd like to ask how you organise your lives as working parents. I don't mean organising cooking, getting kids ready for preschool etc..
As we have so little time together, dh and I rarely have time to discuss planning like holidays, how to cover preschool/school holidays, when one of us will be away on business and so the other needs to cover for them, nanny's holidays, visits to grandparents, payments, let alone long term planning (eg. when is ds going to move from nanny to preschool).
At present we have a basic calendar on the kitchen wall, but we just seem to get into a complete mess because a lot of the stuff needs quite a lot of thinking/discussion and coordination with colleagues at work, nanny, family etc. and we just seem never to manage this very well.
Do any of you have any good tips? How do you manage this kind of planning?

Firsly go to organized mum and get their diaries and wall charts or similar. Sadly, ime, one of you have to take responsibility for doing this and in our house, its me. At least this way round it definetly gets done - I also deal with all our money ( what little there is!), holidays etc

So, when ds's come home from school with class letters etc, they immediatly go into the diary and I highlight any clashes with work etc. If my work is a problem, I put it into my work diary to handle and if it's DH's I remind him - often by phoning him at work , as he can do something about it then and there.
So far, we haven't missed anything and dd is now in yr 2. It's manic, especially when I'm away with work but so far managable. Also, we try and chat through this sort of stuff one evening a month when we both have diaries out. And the odd call in work hours to him works well as we don't have the dc's around. Good luck

Thanks for that! That's helpful!

We email each other (!) and also sit down with diaries as littlebellsmum does.

We were thinking of setting up an online google calender to add events/home times etc.

We have online google calendars which we both have access to on our phones; so always know what is going on and can book things in. You can set up different colours for each member of the family!