Apple One For Dummies

Chapter 12

Tying a Digital String on Your Finger

IN THIS CHAPTER

Accessing the Calendar and Reminders apps

Add and delete calendar events

Make, edit, and delete reminders and lists

I’m not the most organized of individuals, and I used to rely on a Day-Timer to keep track of my days, which start early and end late. If I didn’t have a way to keep track of my comings and goings, I’d be a very unpopular fellow. Between school schedules, sports schedules, work schedules, doctors’ appointments, and everything else going on, I need help keeping it all straight — otherwise, it spins out of control.

But now, instead of a Day-Timer, I use the Calendar and Reminders apps to keep everything in one place: iCloud.

Calendar is exactly what you think it is — an online version of the monthly calendar we’ve all hung on our office or kitchen walls at one time or another. The only feature of a paper calendar that you might miss are the nice pictures; you’ll need to look elsewhere for those if you’re using Calendar on your iPhone or Mac.

Reminders is the to-do list we all wish we had 20 years ago. One that can be found in one place (or in all places, depending on how you look at it) and that doesn’t ...