Chapter 10

Organizing Your Life

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Introducing Calendar

Bullet Remembering events with Reminders and Notification Center

Bullet Using Focus to minimize distractions

Bullet Taking notes with the Notes app

Bullet Tracking activity with Screen Time

Apple supplies macOS Sonoma with a folder full of apps that you can use to do everything from surf the Internet to play movies to perform numeric calculations. In this chapter, you learn to use three of these apps — Calendar, Reminders, and Notes — to organize and simplify your everyday affairs. You also explore applying the Focus feature to minimize distractions and maximize productivity, as well as tracking your own activity or a family member’s activity with the Screen Time feature.

Keeping Track with Calendar

Calendar is a powerful app that provides appointment calendars with alerts. You can have multiple color-coded calendars; several types of visual, audible, and emailed alerts; repeating events; and more. You can publish your calendars on the web ...

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