Master Your Apple Calendar With These Tips!

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Күн бұрын

Tired of wasting time scheduling and calendaring? This video is for you! No more wasting time scheduling events on your Mac. You'll learn the very best shortcuts (Lucas's favourites!) for the Mac Calendar.app - formerly iCal.
00:00 Intro to the best Calendar app for Mac in Lucas's opinion (formerly iCal)
00:45 Week view shortcuts
01:50 See more time in the day, change font size
03:30 Add appointments the easy way
05:17 Duplicate appointments with option-drag
06:19 Copy & paste events
07:55 Color code and change colors in your Mac calendar
08:05 Turn off holidays in Mac calendar
09:52 Set Mac default calendar in Mac calendar
11:40 Change time zone and time zone support in Mac calendar
13:09 Add multiple alerts and change alerts in Mac calendar
15:02 Conclusion and things we can help with in a one on one consult
Book a consult with Lucas or his team from macinhome.com/booking/ anytime you want some one-on-one help!
Macinhome is a Mac-specialized, patient, and professional consulting team helping clients internationally via FaceTime, Zoom, and Screen Sharing, and locally in-person from our home base in Vancouver, Canada. We’ll organize your Mac, get you synced and backed up, get your email accounts under control, organize your photos into one safe and beautiful place, and more.
Special thanks to Andrey Summers and Neuman Mannas of Red Square Collective for the awesome video. redsquarecollective.com

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@redallowed_a_typo 8 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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

@liatyothkovich4440 8 ай бұрын

Thanks! Really helped me organize my calendar :)

@lucasmacinhome 8 ай бұрын

You're so welcome!

@VisibleLewis3 2 ай бұрын

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

@steaphen5938 2 ай бұрын

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

@Arsalan_2210 5 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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

@lamsuki6262 5 ай бұрын

Very useful

@GarryBurgess 15 күн бұрын

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

@waiyansoeya8343 8 ай бұрын

Thanks alots

@oscarortiz6790 Ай бұрын

Awesome video thanks !

@lucasmacinhome 22 күн бұрын

You bet! I am glad you found it.

@aiellosristorante8276 Ай бұрын

Great job learning thank you

@lucasmacinhome 22 күн бұрын

Cheers!

@hakimbeddiari5375 Ай бұрын

you're amazing ! new Sub

@lucasmacinhome 22 күн бұрын

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

@joyoffilming9500 6 ай бұрын

Awesome tutorial - straight to the point and very helpful!

@lucasmacinhome 6 ай бұрын

You are very welcome!! :) - Lucas

@rogue_lele6167 3 ай бұрын

yaa, just too long tho haha

@lucasmacinhome 3 ай бұрын

@@rogue_lele6167 Hey if you can do one and get it shorter - I will accept defeat!

@rogue_lele6167 3 ай бұрын

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

@lucasmacinhome 3 ай бұрын

@@rogue_lele6167 Send me the link when you do it!

@skylertrudeau 3 ай бұрын

📆💪

@princesskathrine26 4 ай бұрын

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!

@mehmd1913 4 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

Yes I like that one too!

@christophersterns2450 9 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

Thank you.@@lucasmacinhome

@gadgetsan 9 ай бұрын

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

@lucasmacinhome 8 ай бұрын

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

@robbieklein3060 9 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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

@Calbear707trees 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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

@lucasmacinhome 8 ай бұрын

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

@maikaimakena9424 7 ай бұрын

Bro that is an amazing tip thank you 🙏

@revpeterlaws 9 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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).

@EdwardPethan 26 күн бұрын

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 22 күн бұрын

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 solutions@macinhome.com ?

@mayeuni-3 5 ай бұрын

Super helpful! Specially for me who is new to iCal

@Sjoerd82 Ай бұрын

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 22 күн бұрын

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 22 күн бұрын

@@lucasmacinhome Ok, thanks for you reaction 👍

@maikaimakena9424 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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

@bksrmt 9 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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

@accentontheoff 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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

@lucasmacinhome 6 ай бұрын

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

@accentontheoff 6 ай бұрын

@@lucasmacinhome Sure thanks.

@user-om8gy1rb8f 4 ай бұрын

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

@lucasmacinhome 4 ай бұрын

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

@karlmunford7000 2 ай бұрын

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?

@gianlucaazzolini 4 ай бұрын

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

@lucasmacinhome 3 ай бұрын

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

@gianlucaazzolini 3 ай бұрын

@@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 3 ай бұрын

@@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.

@velcrots 4 ай бұрын

@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!

@SnowyOwlPrepper 8 ай бұрын

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

@lucasmacinhome 8 ай бұрын

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