6. The Calendar App

I mentioned in Chapter 5, “Notes and Reminders,” how I use my iPad as my own personal assistant; I can’t afford a living, breathing human personal assistant, but a number of apps on my iPad provide me many of the same functions. Take the Reminders app I covered in Chapter 5, for example. I used to ask my wife and friends to “remind me to return this book” or “don’t let me forget about the phone call this afternoon.” Now I let my iPad do it for me.

Going hand-in-hand with the Reminders app is the Calendar app. This is the app I use to schedule appointments, create regularly occurring events (such as changing the ...

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