A good calendar serves as a great personal assistant, especially for small business owners, freelancers, and entrepreneurs. It’s one way to avoid missing appointments, forgetting birthdays, and disregarding deadlines – all while one stays online and clutched to one’s smartphone.
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There’s an abundance of calendar apps for both IoS and Android on the market today, but here’s a quick list to get one started.
Fantastical 2 (IoS)
Compatible with the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, this calendar app boasts new hardware features such as 3D Touch and Force Touch. It also supports multiple languages, allows users to use speech for reminder creation, and supports use of simple text phrases for making reminders and alerts.
CloudCal (Android)
Its unique feature is called Magic Circles, which turns the days of the month into clock faces and shows various colored circles (or circle segments). Every one of them corresponds to the tasks scheduled for that day, seeking to give users a picture of what their day would be like and the amount of free time in between tasks.
Google Calendar
This app remains the dominant shared online calendar app, and for a good reason: it lets users have separate calendars of corresponding colors for different aspects (from work to family to birthdays). All calendars are shareable, and the app itself can be the back end to any other calendar the user intends to use.
Microsoft Outlook
Ideal for businesses, Outlook’s calendar is highly similar to Google’s, but also integrates with the email app so they can be viewed together in one place. The only downside is if it’s not packaged with outer Microsoft products, it may have a pretty hefty price in light of free alternatives out there.
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Trello
While a widely used project management tool, Trello offers a great calendar feature where people can discuss tasks and collaborate, assign to-do’s, and track different things. Online scheduling is flexible all the way.
Taihwa Terry Ho is a capital investor and technophile. Learn more on this page.
