Ah! I’m not the only one using iCal for scheduling, planning, and maintaining a to do list.
Merlin Mann is like me in at least one respect: he’s a Mac user who uses iCal despite the fact that there may be more powerful calendar applications out there.
From 43F Recap: Best of iCal Tips | 43 Folders on 43 Folders:
Yes, friends, I do still spend a lot of my day shaking my hammy fist in impotent rage at iCal’s numerous shortcomings, but I’ve reached a kind of détente with Apple’s stock calendaring app, and along the way I’ve discovered some modest ways to squeeze more drops of Cupertino-y goodness from its moist Jolly Rancher-like pages. Here’s a few of my favorites.
Merlin then goes on to list articles (with links, of course) that he’s written in the past about getting more out of iCal.
I also switched to iCal (and Address Book and Mail) from Entourage. I think it was when either Jaguar or Panther came out. What sold me was the ability to easily synchronize my calendar (and other data) between computers via .Mac. (Say what you want about Apple’s online service, but I look at it as a reliable, universally accessible 1 GB of storage that I can share among my Macs — for the foreseeable future.) iCal does have shortcomings and although I don’t shake a hammy fist at them, I’ll be the first to admit that they’re extremely frustrating. But I think that the new features that will be added to Mail in Leopard, such as to do lists and notes, will help make the trio of Apple-provided PIM software products more useful.
In the meantime, if you use iCal and want to get more out of it, be sure to check out Merlin’s articles.
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