iPad & iPad Pro For Dummies, 2024-2025 Edition

Chapter 11

Staying in Touch: Managing Events and Contacts

IN THIS CHAPTER

Understanding Calendar’s various views

Adding lunches, meetings, and other get-togethers to your calendar

Storing friends and family info in the Contacts app

Keeping your contact info up to date

One of the paradoxes of modern life is that as your dealings with other people become more important, you store less and less of that information in the easiest database system of them all — your memory. That is, instead of memorizing where and when you're meeting for coffee tomorrow or the phone number of the person you're meeting, you now store all that info electronically. In the end, getting all the info out of your head and storing it somewhere safe is a good thing because it means you can use your brain for more important things (such as figuring out how to get the other person to pay for that coffee).

When it comes to your iPad, storing these kinds of facts electronically means adding the details of your upcoming events to the Calendar app and adding the contacts details of your colleagues, customers, friends, ...