Joe Kissell is an editor at TidBits, and a Macworld senior contributor. Her advice: “Just like kids, budget, and housing, talk to your significant other about his or her preferred calendaring solution before you get married.” When certain appointments must be shared, she ends up needing to make two versions: one on her own calendar, and one on the shared version: “It’s a pain, and I hate it.” “Syncing in general can still be an issue,” she says, “especially when there are multiple people in a household who might have their own calendars and shared calendars.” She explains that her shared calendar situation with her husband is “a disaster,” since he relies on iCloud. Jacqui has other complaints about the modern state of calendar management, too. Jacqui, however, only uses Siri for that purpose “very occasionally.” But Jacqui has ended up with a few too many appointments that say something like “Tell Maude avocado Wednesday three P” whose original meaning eludes her. I’ve often expressed my affection for Siri (whom I call my best friend in New Jersey), and I use the voice assistant to create appointments fairly often. “On the Mac, I just use the Google Calendar page on the Web, because I usually already have it open.” On the iPhone, she uses Apple’s Calendar app, which has Google sync built in as an option.
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Jacqui says that she uses her Mac and iPhone equally for adding appointments. Because all the major calendar apps sync with Google Calendar now, “it’s too much of a mess for me to extract into anything else.”
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“This started back when I still had an office job and was using a Windows PC to program on,” meaning iCal and iCloud weren’t even options at the time. Like me, she uses Google Calendar as the “main hub” for all her calendar syncing. Jacqui Cheng is the editor-in-chief of The Wirecutter. I’m okay with my approach, but some Apple power-users I spoke to had alternative approaches that are worth considering. I use Fantastical and Apple’s Calendar on my Mac, Fantastical on the iPhone, and Calendar on the iPad. Today, I rely on Google Calendar to keep my appointments in sync between my Mac and my iOS devices. That hasn’t worked since the late 1990s, though. There was a time when I managed my calendar by keeping a Post-It note with important meetings written down on it.