179: Calendar Management
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This week David and Katie tackle the calendar and best practices for managing, sharing and storing information to keep you on track.

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Links and Show Notes:

Links for this episode:

• Mac Power Users 178: The Contacts Show)David and Katie discuss the best practices for managing, syncing and organizing contacts.

• MPU 042: Contacts and Calendars)In this episode, Katie and David tackle managing contacts and calendars on your Mac and iOS Devices.

• iCloud: Calendar overview)

• Office - Office.com)

• Apple - OS X - Calendar)

• Why aren’t digital calendars smarter? | Macworld)

• Secrets for Mac)Secrets is a preference pane that lets you customize many Mac OS X settings that are hidden or incomplete.

• PDFpen: Mac PDF Editor - Edit, Sign, and Correct PDFs)The all-purpose Mac PDF editor! Add signatures, text, and images. Make changes and correct typos. OCR scanned docs. Fill out forms. New in version 6: Microsoft® Word export!

• PDFpen OCR Folder Action Script — MacSparky)

• Automatically OCR Documents with Hazel and PDFpen — KatieFloyd.me)

• Noodlesoft | Hazel)Hazel watches whatever folders you tell it to, automatically organizing your files according to the rules you create. It features a rule interface similar to that of Apple Mail so you should feel right at home

• BusyMac - BusyCal)BusyCal is the ultimate OS X calendar app — packed with powerful time-saving features in a friendly, easy-to-use package.

• Flexibits | Fantastical for Mac)Fantastical's natural language engine is expressive and intelligent so you can write in your own style.

• OmniFocus - The Omni Group)OmniFocus is designed to quickly capture your thoughts and ideas to store, manage, and help you process them into actionable to-do items.

• Flexibits | Fantastical 2 for iPhone)

• Mynd |)Mynd Calendar is a smart, context aware app that provides you with the information you need to be successful, so you don’t have to do it all by yourself.

• Readdle - Calendar 5)Calendars 5 seamlessly syncs with local iOS calendars, Reminders and even Google Calendar.Now all your events and tasks are in a single application, which is always on hand.

• PDFpen Scan+: Scanning and OCR for iPad and iPhone)The power of your office in your pocket! Scan contracts, invoices, or receipts as PDFs with your iPhone® or iPad®. Use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to make that scanned image into editable text!

• Doodle: easy scheduling)The scheduling tool you'll actually use.

• ScheduleOnce)Online meeting and appointment scheduling software

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