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Four Calendar Apps to Replace Your Planner

PSafe Newsroom — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 19:00:36 +0000

Whether you’re a student in college or a longtime professional, there’s no denying that you’ve much to keep track of throughout the course of your day. Meetings, deadlines, dates, and your daily responsibilities can all be a bit overwhelming to keep track of. Organization tools can help you manage everything on your to-do list, but even planners are only reliable when you regularly get into the habit of updating your daily, weekly, and monthly schedules.

Fortunately, for those of us that need a little help to keep on top of things, there are calendar apps that make your schedule manageable and always at your fingertips. Depending on your lifestyle, these are some of the best such apps.

aCalendar
One of the highest-rated calendar apps on the Google Play store and touted as “a near perfect calendar,” aCalendar is a highly comprehensive, highly customizable organization tool. An intuitive UI makes navigating the app smooth and easy, as you transition between day, week and month displays. Recurring obligations can be set to recurring reminders, notable dates from your contacts can be set to sync with aCalendar, and the app can even make notes of events through QR barcode scans. Other cool features include a lunar calendar for your location on Earth, synchronized dates and reminders from Google Calendar, and graphical overviews of tasks, organized by weeks and months. Best of all, this tool can be yours for free.

CalenGoo
While we admit that this app feels like it was originally released for the iPhone in 2007, with its outdated sheen and layout, there’s no denying CalenGoo’s utility as a time and task management tool. It can sync with Google Calendar and other productivity apps to record past and present dates and appointments, support a wide selection of widgets to organize your tasks with, share events with colleagues and friends, and even set SMS or text reminders to your phone number or email for particularly important occasions. While it doesn’t break new ground in terms of features, CalenGoo absolutely nails the functions it performs, and is perfect for those of us with particularly busy schedules to attend to. This app is currently available on the Google Play store for about $6.

SolCalendar
With millions of downloads for Android devices, SolCalendar is certainly one of the more successful global task management tools. SolCalendar is a free-to-download app, but you wouldn’t guess that given just how high-quality this app is. Unlike the other calendars that merely help you get your proverbial ducks in a row, SolCalendar ultimately aims to help users live more passionate lives by providing relevant information and efficiently organizing events and tasks. SolCalendar is known for its design and functions. Major IT medias, such as The New Web, name it as one of the best alternatives for Google Calendar. Additional functions like real-time weather forecasts and map integration, stickers for special events, and translations for dozens of languages make this the perfect planner for international audiences and global citizens.

Jorte
This free organization tool has over 28 million downloads for Android devices, and has the most features of the apps on this list. Included among the myriad features Jorte provides are a diary function, a countdown timer for events, compatibility and the ability to sync with Microsoft Office 365, cloud storage capabilities, and font customization. As the blog MakeUseOf puts it, “Jorte goes beyond what other calendar apps are capable of,” and is great for those looking for more stylish and individualized management assistants.

3 Easy Ways to Transfer Your Calendar from iPhone to Android

PSafe Newsroom — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 21:10:06 +0000

So, you’ve just made the move from iPhone to Android. All of your contacts have moved, as well as saved messages, photos, and more. But what about your calendar? Just because you have a new phone doesn’t mean that all of those important appointments and errands are going to go away. If you had a calendar chock-full of information on your iPhone, there are a few methods that make it easy to transfer all of that information to your new Android device.

1. Use iCloud

If you’ve made use of the ever-popular iCloud’s functionality, then you may have opted to store your calendar dates and settings here instead of directly onto your iPhone. Or, you may want to give the iCloud a try for the first time for doing just this. While this might be one of the trickier methods for transferring your information, it’s ideal for transferring a great number of calendar entries at once, and it can still be done in a few steps.

First, on your iPhone, go to “Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account.”
Next, register or login to your iCloud account and enable it to sync your local calendar to the iCloud, if you have not done so already.
On your PC or Mac’s web browser, go to www.iCloud.com and login to your account.
Click on the calendar icon and choose the calendar in the top left that you want to transfer.
Click “Share Calendar” and a pop-up menu will appear. Choose “Public Calendar” and copy the share URL.
In a new web browser tab, paste the copied URL. Replace “webcal” with “http,” then visit the URL.
This browser tab will now automatically download an .ics file onto your computer.
Now, go to your Google Calendar and sign in or register. On the left panel of the interface, click on “Other Calendars” and there will be a menu.
Select “Import Calendar,” locate the downloaded .ics file, and hit “import” to import all events.
When you have finished importing all of the calendar events, you will see them on your Google Calendar. You can now sync this with the calendar on your Android phone, and all of your events will appear.

2. Use Google

Now that you have an Android device, you might as well familiarize yourself with everything Google has to offer! You’ll soon see that when it comes to transferring and importing/exporting important information, Google comes out as the easiest and most efficient tool to use.

Go to “Settings” on your iPhone, then select “Mail > Contacts > Calendars > Add Account.”
Set up or login to your Google account.
Go to “Calendars” and switch the toggle on.
By doing this, you will automatically sync your calendar to your Google account.

3. Use a Third-Party App

As we always say: there’s an app for that! While the two options listed above are fairly simple and get the job done well, if you’re looking for any extra perks or want to sync even more calendars from different accounts across different platforms and devices, an app or program may be the way to go.

SmoothSync for Cloud Calendar. This app lets you establish an iPhone-to-Android connection that can instantaneously sync your calendars (please note that it does not work from Android-to-iPhone). All you have to do is download the app, configure it and you’re good to go!
Gihosoft Mobile Phone Transfer. This is not an app for your mobile device, but instead a program to download onto your PC or Mac. Once installed, all you have to do is connect your phone to your computer with a USB cable, and within the Gihosoft program select “Start Copy,” and your Calendar information can be transferred from your iPhone to any Android smartphone.