Events Quick
If you need to schedule a date in your calendar on-the-fly, calendar now supports text only ' Quick ' events.
Just press the ' + ' button in the upper-left corner and type out your event, in the same way that you would speak of it. Press enter and you will recall the event calendar for you immediately. Easy.
Multiple calendars
With the calendar you are able to order all your events and schedules in a multi-layer system. For example, you can choose to separate your calendar at home, work and school. These can be labeled by colour, helping to refine your program and more importantly ensuring a balance of work, rest and play.
To do this, select File > new calendar and add a name.
The list of calendars can be viewed in the sidebar by clicking on the calendar at the top left.
To label different color calendars, right-click the calendar that you want, and select get info, and then select a new color from the drop-down menu. A colorful calendar is a calendar friendly!
Birthdays
If you have heaps of friends you can keep up to date with their birthdays. Instead of adding their birthdays in the calendar application as you would with another event, add birthdays in your address book.
In contacts, select the person and add their birth date below the drop-down menu. Calendar will be automagically imported quite a small calendar reminders for the date and include the age of that person.
Subscriptions
You can subscribe to external calendars if yours is empty. There are many different uses for this sort of thing as TV schedules, holidays, corporate events, work shifts and sports programmes. What makes great and useful subscriptions is that they are constantly updated on all changes made by the creator. Think of them as the RSS calendars.
To do this, select File > new calendar subscriptions and enter the URL path of the desired calendar, usually a file with .ICS extension.
Press Subscribe and fill in the information on your calendar as its name, color, label warnings, attachments and auto-refresh interval.
Click ok and your calendar very neatly integrates your own personal program. As changes are made to automagically programme will ensure that it is always up to date
There are some services that provide calendars you can choose to subscribe-
Apple's Calendars, Calendarlabs, next episode, Pog calendars Design
Find subscriptions describes a useful way to keep up to date with all the TV they consume. Using the next episode, put together a feed of calendar showing different exact dates are available. Get a nice reminder every now and then which is available to watch Breaking Bad or Doctor Who. No effort required.
Editrice
As soon as you subscribe to external calendars, you can publish your own calendar that others will be able to subscribe. This allows you to deploy a specific program that you can adjust and host for their friends.
To do this, choose File > export, and choose a name and location for your calendar.
Add this calendar to your web server or storage and share it with your friends, family and colleagues who can subscribe and view the planning yourself.
These are some different tricks and hidden features in the calendar application which will allow you to try new things with your personal program. Now there's no excuse for a calendar repulsively ugly and boring.
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