This is the part in which you should include any event that will happen on a particular day or on a specific time, such as a meeting, flying on a trip, or having to make a call to congratulate someone on their birthday. The calendar is not a complete organizational tool in itself, although it is an important part of any system of personal organization. The calendar is based only on time not in the context in which you find yourself or on the energy you have or on your priorities at the time. Likely, on Thursday at 11am you do not have the material that you need to work on what you had planned.
You do not know if you will be able to do the task at the scheduled time. You can only pray that no new stuff appear, so that things don’t get any worse. Your vision of the week is just a lot of tasks and events piled up in your calendar. As it is the case with the email, you do not have a clear sequence of what you need doing. Since everything you start has a deadline, you are constantly living in the Quadrants of Urgency. You live in a situation of permanent crisis. No matter how many colors you use to identify different types of tasks, a task is not the equivalent to a gap in the calendar (it may require of many gaps on different days and in different sizes). Yo do not know how many tasks you have or how many you still have left to finish a given project. Using a calendar normally involves a sense of urgency that is evident each time the tool sends you an alert to your email or your mobile to tell you that within X minutes you have a scheduled job that you did not remember. Any inclusion in the calendar leads to a shift of everything that follows. 
As you could not complete everything planned for today and also there are new emergencies, now you have to redo tomorrow’s schedule and all the following days to include these tasks. You plan out one or more days, probably a week.
To keep the calendar updated requires a lot of work. This, on a daily basis, undermines anyone’s morale. 
Because of the above, at the end of the day, you have only finished 3 of the 7 tasks included in the calendar.
The calendar is a source of frustration. What you thought was going to take 30 minutes, turns out to take 45 so you cannot start the next task because you have a meeting which, by the way, ends up lasting 20 minutes more than planned. If you’re like me, you’re going to be wrong 9 times out of 10. You do not know how long a task will take.
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