iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual, Fourth Edition

Inspecting the Calendar on Your iPod

From the iPod’s main menu, navigate to Extras → Calendars. If you have just one calendar, you’ll see a miniature calendar grid with small red flags (or black dots on older iPods) on days that you have events planned, as shown at the top right of Figure B-18. If you’ve imported more than one calendar, you must first choose the calendar (subset) you want from the iPod’s Calendars menu (Figure B-18, top left).

Note

The iPod loves iCal and can display each individual iCal calendar, (if you are busy enough to even have separate calendars, that is) under its own name. Calendar files from other programs, however, get lumped into the submenu called Other in the Calendars area.

Of course, viewing tiny flags on a calendar grid the size of a Wheat Thin isn’t exactly useful. When someone asks if you’re free for lunch Friday, you can’t exactly say, “Red flag!” and not have them worry about your mental health.

Although owners of older monochrome-screened iPods and iPod Minis have to make do with black dots and a gray screen, the newer iPods with their handsome color screens do liven things up a bit with a bright splash of blue on the calendar screen. You still can’t see individual appointments from the main calendar screen, though.

Fortunately, you can zoom in to see your actual schedule for a certain day. To choose the day you want, turn the iPod’s scroll wheel; the highlighting square zooms through the calendar dates until you home in on the one you want. At ...