Master Your Apple Calendar With These Tips!

[@simonwright9838]

Learned so much from a very clear instructor with an attractive voice. I wish all KZbin tutorials were this useful.

[@lucasmacinhome]

Wow, thank you!

[@Arsalan_2210]

This video was very helpful thank you so much! Love from India. :)) Love this simple content, no stupid music, getting straight to the point.

[@lucasmacinhome]

Thank you so much! I really do try to be helpful without wasting time!

[@mehmd1913]

At the bottom left in calendar view you can click and drag the top edge of the mini calendar upwards and you will reveal more months…

[@lucasmacinhome]

Yes I like that one too!

[@KristEvans]

Thank you for taking your time to make this video

[@lucasmacinhome]

You are very welcome! It's rewarding to make it when it's actually helpful and I get nice comments like this! :)

[@redallowed_a_typo]

Super helpful! Love how you add tips exclusive to apple/ features within the app that are exclusive e.g. command shortcuts and playing around with the settings. Find this much more interesting and comprehensive than just an overview of what the calendar can do as a whole.

[@lucasmacinhome]

Awesome, thank you! Yes I am a Mac app shortcut geek for sure :)

[@zionluxuryproperties]

How do you mark an event as completed? Also is there a setting so when you are creating an event to know if you have a conflict either a event already scheduled?

[@GarryBurgess]

I love your keyboard commands. Now I'll probably do them 100 times per day too.

[@gadgetsan]

Thanks fot the tips. Could You show how to do it on iPad ?

[@lucasmacinhome]

Maybe someday but I don't really use iPads... I spend 99% of my time on iPhone and Mac. - Lucas

[@mayeuni-3]

Super helpful! Specially for me who is new to iCal

[@princesskathrine26]

Great video! How do you make the time appear within the box itself? For lunch with your wife it says 12PM but for workout it doesn’t indicate a time within the box. Also p.s im using an ipad. Thank you!

[@robbieklein3060]

Great list!! My other favorite trick is dragging mail messages from Apple Mail onto a date which will then include a link to the message inside the calendar event.

[@lucasmacinhome]

Whooaaa I didn’t know that one! Mind blown 🤯

[@Calbear707trees]

How do you do this because I'm trying to figure it out. If it's in this video- well I just started watching it..

[@Calbear707trees]

I figured it out. I now know how I was doing it wrong. Sheesh. And ditto on your comment.

[@lucasmacinhome]

@@Calbear707trees Nice work! Yes - super cool thank you Robbie!

[@maikaimakena9424]

Bro that is an amazing tip thank you 🙏

[@MrScottalancole]

Great video👍🏼 Is it possible to share available time slots with iCal the way you can with apps like Notion Cal or FantastiCal?

[@VisibleLewis3]

Super clear video. I have an iPad so not everything pertained to me but it was still amazing. Thank you

[@marcos94rangel]

Im planning a trip to Japan, any tip on how to change between time zones? For example I’m having trouble setting the Day at Disney from 9am-9pm on the 21st of October because it automatically moves it from 6pm the 20th to 9pm the 21st if I put the Japan time zone

[@lucasmacinhome]

I can help with this if you want a hand but in the calendar app if you go into settings and then advanced, you’ll see time zone support as an option. Turn that on. Then in the main calendar window, in the top right, you can add the other cities and switch between them. It makes it way easier to add something as you’re talking about. You can add it in the daytime while you have whatever city in Japan selected.

[@LuisG-or6xd]

Thanks a lot. The only issue I have is that I'd love to have every event highlighted with a color as you have it. But in my calendar there's just one really small color bar next to the event

[@lucasmacinhome]

I can help with that! Book with me anytime: macinhome.com/booking/ if it ever becomes worth paying for an hour with me around $145 USD. Colors might not matter that much but to some people they do!

[@Sconstable]

Is there any way to have a calendar entry to show free/busy? It's a great option for me, because I use AI to data scrape my calendar to give availability, but not all my availability is a meeting, most of the time the entries are just FYIs.

[@lucasmacinhome]

Not with iCloud, but that is an option with Google Calendar! Beyond that I would want to see your exact setup... book with me anytime! macinhome.com/booking/

[@Sjoerd82]

Hi, Super helpfull tips!! Do you know if there is an option to move multiple calendar items at once? (For example "prepare swimming gear" "Drive to swimmingpool" "swimming" "Drive home", and if I want to swim a few hours later I have to move all those items 1 at the time, but I want to move them all together as a pack.). I hope you can help me with it.

[@lucasmacinhome]

Not that I know of! The only way you can do that is with a recurring event, you move the first one and all the repeat instances will move. But if you are trying to move a bunch of different events I would move them one by one as there's no shortcut I know of.

[@Sjoerd82]

@@lucasmacinhome Ok, thanks for you reaction 👍

[@EdwardPethan]

Hello Lucas, how do you center the text across a weekly event? As an example, if I want to remind myself to pay the utility bill at the start of the week (Monday), how can I center the text vs. having it only appear on Monday? Thanks, Ed

[@lucasmacinhome]

I re-read this a few times and can't quite picture what you are meaning... can you email me a screenshot or mock up to [e-mail] ?

[@steaphen5938]

Well done. Amazing video. This is really helpful. Keep making such amazing content.

[@liatyothkovich4440]

Thanks! Really helped me organize my calendar :)

[@lucasmacinhome]

You're so welcome!

[@aiellosristorante8276]

Great job learning thank you

[@lucasmacinhome]

Cheers!

[@revpeterlaws]

THis was helpful, thanks. But do you, or anyone else, know how to avoid this Apple Calendar issue: Whenever I add a multi-day event. Let's say 'Holiday in Florida' from 1st - 14th August, that then covers everything else in Week View. Because of this, I can't access or edit any other events during that time frame, since they are 'behind' the multi day event. How do we 'send that event to the back', if you know what I mean. Thanks

[@lucasmacinhome]

Yeah there's no way to "send to back" the same way as you can in design apps etc. The only fix for this is to put the trip up into the "all day" section or click the "all day event" checkbox. If you block off for example 8am to 8pm for 10 days then yeah it's hard to click on other events. Easiest fix is just drag it up to the all day section at the top (in week view).

[@oscarortiz6790]

Awesome video thanks !

[@lucasmacinhome]

You bet! I am glad you found it.

[@christophersterns2450]

Nice video. Love tip #4 and #10. With alerts and reminders, I've found it's too easy to dismiss. Multiple alerts will help avoid that. As a back up, I set alarms for all events and use the snooze feature when needed. Alarms are more persistent (annoying really - LOL) but work to make sure I don't dismiss and blow an appointment. Do these shortcuts work with IOS devices?

[@lucasmacinhome]

Haha I do that too - setting alarms 5 mins before the most important meetings! Often the calendar pop ups are not enough. Yes many of these work on iPhone as well but the mechanics are different because it's more tap and drag, or tap and hold, etc... on the iPhone screen. I will likely do that video sometime but in the short term I would be happy to help you one in one via phone / zoom to show you all these same tips! Reach out anytime or just book right into my cal. macinhome.com/booking/ - Lucas

[@christophersterns2450]

Thank you.@@lucasmacinhome

[@accentontheoff]

Hello and apologies if this is a bit unrelated but perhaps you could help? Thing is can't I see external subscription calendars (my office Gmail calendar in this case) when I view my Apple calendar in a browser on my Windows machine. Do note that this office calendar is very visible on my Apple calendar on my iPad, Mac and iPhone, although I think I had to add each one separately. P.S. I did try to add it inside iCloud-on-a-browser but no luck. Is there a way to fix this. Thanks!

[@lucasmacinhome]

I would need to see your setup and do some tinkering but for sure I can help you get to the goal you're after... I can help you with that one on one in a screen sharing consult if you like. Book anytime: macinhome.com/booking/ - Lucas

[@accentontheoff]

@@lucasmacinhome Thanks for the offer but afraid I don’t have a dollar budget for these kind of things.

[@lucasmacinhome]

@@accentontheoff No problem - if it becomes a priority worth paying for then I would love to help! - Lucas

[@accentontheoff]

@@lucasmacinhome Sure thanks.

[@joyoffilming9500]

Awesome tutorial - straight to the point and very helpful!

[@lucasmacinhome]

You are very welcome!! :) - Lucas

[@rogue_carlisle6167]

yaa, just too long tho haha

[@lucasmacinhome]

@@rogue_carlisle6167 Hey if you can do one and get it shorter - I will accept defeat!

[@rogue_carlisle6167]

​@@lucasmacinhome ​ The Mac calendar app has very simplistic features. if I was actually a KZbinr uploading videos on KZbin it wouldn't take me more than 12 mins for this Mac calendar tutorial. and I'm not exaggerating on that.

[@lucasmacinhome]

@@rogue_carlisle6167 Send me the link when you do it!

[@LejlaHaskic-e4f]

How do you add more categories on the left side where you have listed home, health, client work, business day etc.? Please help! 😩

[@lucasmacinhome]

Did you watch the video? I’m pretty sure I explain exactly how to do that in the video…

[@lamsuki6262]

Very useful

[@velcrots]

@1:54 Yeah, wouldn't eat be nice if they'd just give us the ability to see the entire 30 days in "week view" on one page/screen!

[@hakimbeddiari5375]

you're amazing ! new Sub

[@lucasmacinhome]

Cheers! I'm glad you found my video! :)

[@getsuresh]

how to list two calendars in calendar view list?

[@gianlucaazzolini]

Hallo , is it possible to create group calendars on iCal?

[@lucasmacinhome]

Tell me the context? You want one calendar shared with a few people?

[@gianlucaazzolini]

@@lucasmacinhome Not exactly, I’m managing two teams of 10 and 5 person each one with his calendar and sharing calendars with them, when I open my iCal i see all calendars, but I need to divide one team from the other otherwise it is too difficult to watch.

[@lucasmacinhome]

@@gianlucaazzolini Yeah I see what you mean... it would be nice to be able to create a folder / group in the calendar list and have the ability to turn them all on or off at once. No that isn't currently an option... the best you can get now is either give each group its own unique prefix like ACME John Smith, ACME Lucas Roberts, etc. So they're visually grouped. Or you can drag them up and down so they are grouped in the list.

[@bksrmt]

Thanks!! 3 things: 1. You’re still gorgeous. No surprise. 2. I end up with duplicate calendars somehow and cannot comp whence they came. I’ll see two of the same birthday, for example. If I try to turn off the extra, (laptop during Covid) they both disappear. What up wi’dat? Is that a general video topic? 3. You are using your laptop here but I usually input on my phone. Wouldn’t you love to make a video specially for the phone app? Can I do the same stuff in my phone? I’ll try some. Already use and abuse alerts, but did NOT know I could create a third! Perhaps because I mostly use my phone. Inputting this on my phone now and the cursor jumps wherever the eff it wants to apparently. Just thought I’d share.

[@lucasmacinhome]

1. Well shucks, thanks! :) 2. I would need to see that exact issue on your Mac, and I would be able to help you delete them. Book anytime from my calendar! macinhome.com/booking/ 3. Many of these work on iPhone as well but the mechanics are different because it's more tap and drag, or tap and hold, etc... on the iPhone screen. I will likely do that video sometime but in the short term I would be happy to help you one in one via phone / zoom to show you all these same tips! Reach out anytime or just book right into my cal from the above link. And not sure why cursor is jumping around! - Lucas

[@maikaimakena9424]

Are there things about Google calendar that you wish Apple calendar had or are you so deep in the apple ecosystem that it’s easier to choose Apple over Google. I have a ton of apple products and I find it easier just to keep things simple with Apple and I also feel like Google products scrape battery life off of my phone faster than default apps. Have you had that same experience

[@lucasmacinhome]

My main email macinhome.com is a Google workspace account, and I use my Google calendar heavily but only through the Apple Calendar app. So I am only ever looking at and working in the Apple Calendar.app but the guts of it is still Google. I haven't found a feature or function in the Google-only world (ie. using Google calendar website) that makes me want to use that more than the Apple Calendar app. - Lucas

[@karlmunford7000]

Used to be able to snooze for a few hours, but now its reduced to one hour and no more, anyone know hour to increase the snooze time?

[@stevegruenwald3822]

delete calendars?

[@Arash_Alavii]

was it really Amazing. Tnx

[@waiyansoeya8343]

Thanks alots

[@SnowyOwlPrepper]

music to loud compared to voice for me. I liked the content.

[@lucasmacinhome]

Good feedback, thank you! I have had that concern before as well and asked my editor to lower the music volume a bit but good to know we need to lower it more! - Lucas

[@skylertrudeau]

📆💪

[@gdr55]

I hate the Mac Calendar App.

[@chessforfunonly1586]

Your jingle is way too loud. Annoying!

[@lucasmacinhome]

Yeah I do ask my editor to turn it down sometimes... sorry about that! I don't always get the volume perfect.