iCal

What do you like best?

I like the reminders the best. I am never late or miss meetings now. It is also nice to be able to share appointments with other people as long as you know their email address. Ical is nice to open up and see what is going on for the rest of the week also. You can look at the calendar as a whole or by the week or even by the day.

What do you dislike?

I dislike the view of the calendar. I like when I can see the entire calendar at once. I wish you could set more than 2 reminders also. I know earlier I said you can view multiple ways but there is just something different when you can see the appointments on the calendar vs just a dot on the day. I actually use an ical widget so that I can see my appointments on the home screen of my phone directly. This helps for seeing future events.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I like how you can share meetings with other people and make sure that you husband doesn't miss appointments. Make sure the person accepts the invite also. It is nice to have as a record also of the person seeing the appointment, in case they don't show up. I also like using outlook calendar in addition to icloud. We also use outlook at my institution and I like how it is integrated with my email also. Emails are great ways to remind you of events, meetings, and appointments.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

I don't like when the meeting is in my calendar more than once instance. Benefits are the travel time option. This is nice when you have to be somewhere at a certain time but have to drive to get there. I also noticed that somehow facebook events are showing up on my ical which I don't like but it helps me to remember people's birthdays and also holidays. This helps when planning events for the future.