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If you have a Mac, then the Calendar app might be one of your most-used applications. However, most users (like me for example) don’t know that there are a few more things that you can do with it to make your event scheduling a lot easier.
Here are some of them.
1. Open Files for Your Appointments According to Your Schedule
Besides serving simply for scheduling reminders, appointments and receiving alerts, the Mac OS X Calendar can also perform quite a few interesting tasks for you as well. For example, you can set any event’s reminder to alert you with either an email or a notification. However, the most interesting of these unique tasks that the Calendar app can perform is to open any file or application on schedule.
To do this, either create an event or edit an existing one. Then, while on the edit panel, look for the alert field and click on it.
From the drop-down menu that shows up, click on the Open File option. Doing this will prompt you to open an iCal file, however, click on Other… instead, which will bring up a dialog box for you to choose a file to open when your event is due.
The great thing about this feature is that you can choose almost any file from your Mac: A song, a bookmark, a document, a game you want to play at that time and even an external application.
2. Customize the Number of Days Displayed on Week View
In past versions of Mac OS X there used to be a way to enable the Debug menu to gain access to a series of additional options. One of the most convenient of these was the ability to change the number of days displayed in the weekly view of the Calendar app. This menu was disabled in Mountain Lion though, but thankfully there is still a way to have you Mac’s calendar Week View show you more than just seven days.
To enable this, open the Terminal utility (located in the Utilities folder) and then copy and paste in it the following command:
defaults write com.apple.iCal CalUIDebugDefaultDaysInWeekView 14
After doing so, press the Return key to accept it and then start Calendar (or relaunch it if it was already open) and you will see that its Week View already displays 14 days instead of just seven.
And don’t be shy to experiment with any other amount of days instead of just 14 until you feel comfortable with your selection.
3. Create Events and Appointments Quickly
A really cool little feature of the Calendar app that oftentimes is overlooked is the ability to create events quickly. To do this, with the Calendar app open, just click on the “+” icon at the top left of the window or press Command + N on your keyboard.
Not only that, but when using this small box to enter your events, you can type it like you would talk to a friend, similar to when talking to Siri on your iPhone. So for example, just write “Go for coffee with Paul this Friday at 1 pm” and the Calendar app will understand what you mean. Really.
And there you go. Use any of these tips to make your experience with your Mac’s Calendar app much faster and convenient. And if you know about any other cool Mac Calendar tips, let us know in the comments below.
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One issue I have with Calendar on macOS or iOS is that it’s just a big, dumb, uninspired and uninspiring calendar. Is it any wonder there is a whole cottage industry of Calendar-like utilities for Mac, iPhone, and iPad? Calendar doesn’t even get love from the Menubar.
Calendarique looks like what you want Calendar to be if it also lived in the Menubar.
What’s not to like? Calendarique is everywhere you want Calendar information to be. The Widget looks good and works well. And, as is the growing trend, Calendarique works on macOS and iOS– iPhone and iPad. Feature-wise, it’s easy to view from Notification Center or Menubar (my favorite) and you can toggle between multiple calendars with a click.
Not only does the app pull in events from Calendar, it also handles Reminders, plus there is both a light and dark theme, and a simple today widget so you can see what’s coming up soon with the least amount of effort.
For iPhone and iPad, the widget supports both vertical and horizontal layouts. I use the widget more and more and this fits perfectly on the iPhone’s tighter screen real estate.
What makes Calendarique special in a world filled with Calendar utilities? First, it runs on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. That’s a requirement these days. Second, the Mac version is less than $2 and the iOS version is half that. Yes. A bargain. The app is developed by Andrey Tsarkov who also publishes iStatistica, one of my most favorite system monitoring utilities.