Let’s face it: We all have complicated lives, and infamous scheduling tools like the Blackberry and Palm Pilot may not be in your budget. The old-fashioned paper planner will do in a pinch, but with all the scratching out you have to do when your schedule changes it’s not worth the hassle. What’s a busy college student to do?

Enter 30boxes.com. Part Internet calendar, part to-do list, part friend-stalking tool, 30boxes, which just hatched from its electronic egg a few weeks ago, allows you to schedule your life anytime, anywhere. Addicts of Apple’s iCal will attest to the program’s ease-of-use and pretty colors, but grumble when you mention that iCal is not universally editable. You can publish it online, but not edit it.

30boxes eliminates this exact problem. Not only are your calendars editable anywhere, you can subscribe to your friends’ as well. Need to know when your parents are going to be out of town so you can sneak in and steal laundry detergent? Check-plus.

The program is still in its infancy, so there are a few bugs that need to be worked out and features that need to be added. But on the whole, 30boxes is the perfect paper planner replacement. Especially when you consider the decrease in paper cuts. Oh yeah, it’s free, too.