Chapter 11

Organizing Your Life

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Introducing Calendar

Bullet Creating and using Calendar calendars

Bullet Creating and organizing Calendar events

Bullet Remembering events with Reminders and Notification Center

Bullet Taking notes with Notes

Bullet Tracking productivity with Screen Time

When you install macOS Big Sur, the folks at Apple generously include applications that can help simplify and organize your everyday affairs — Calendar, Reminders, and Notes (to name three you discover in this chapter).

In fact, macOS Big Sur comes with a folder full of applications — software you can use to do everything from surfing the Internet to capturing an image of your Mac’s screen to playing QuickTime movies to performing numeric calculations.

Technically, most of these applications aren’t even part of macOS. Rather, the vast majority of them are what are known as bundled apps — programs that come with the operating ...

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