iPad All-in-One For Dummies, 7th Edition

Chapter 3

Keeping On Schedule with the Calendar and Clock Apps

In This Chapter

Viewing your calendar

Adding and repeating calendar events

Working with, searching, and sharing calendars

Deleting events

Using the Clock app

Most people have busy lives full of activities that aren’t always easy to keep straight. You may need a way to keep on top of all those work-related and personal activities and appointments. The Calendar app on the iPad is a simple, elegant, electronic daybook that helps you do just that.

In addition to being able to enter events and view them by the day, week, month, or year, you can set up Calendar to provide alerts to remind you of your obligations, and you can search for events by keyword. You can also set up repeating events, such as the weekly staff meeting, a regular social get-together, or monthly flea treatments for your cat. By taking advantage of the new Family Sharing feature in iOS 8, you can create a family calendar that everybody in your family can ...