iCal OS X Guide

When you need help managing your life's events, iCal is the perfect solution. With iCal, you can manage your schedule, appointments, to-do lists and any other important events. When your have other people who have iCal, you can subscribe to theirs and superpose your iCal to them. With the feature, you can see if any events conflict with each other, easily fixing your problems.

Managing iCal events

Heres a little step by step guide to add and manage events in iCal and subscribe to other people's calendars:

• Open the iCal application from the dock or app folder. The first thing you see is the main calender screen. To the left, you see 2 categories; Home and Work. To add a new calender category, click on the "+" sign at the bottom left of the screen. You can give it a new name.
• To schedule a new even, click and drag its date and hour from the calender.
• Click on "New Event" to give it a new name. Type in your new event name and press enter.
• To add a location, double click on the event and click on location. Type the location of the event and press done.
• In the same menu, you can also edit the hours and minutes in detail. You can also choose if you want to repeat the event every day, week, month or year. Doing this will add the events in the rest of your iCal calender.
• If you put the event in the wrong calender, you can change it here.
• To add an alarm, you can choose from a message, message with sound, email, application triggering or run a script.
• To add attendees, click on "Add Attendees".
• To attach a file to the event, click on "Add File" and choose your attachments with the finder window.
• The last options are adding an url to the event and adding final notes.

Adding a To Do list

Creating a To Do list is a good idea if you have important tasks to do with no particular date to do them on. To add a new To Do, click on File>New To Do. It will appear to the right of the calender. Click on it to give it a new name. When your done with the task, click on the little square to the left of the title.

To sort the priority of your To Do tasks, just drag them up or down in the list. To modify your task details, double click on one. You can enter its priority, due date, add an url and add some notes.

Publishing your iCal calender / Subscribing to others

To publish your iCal calender for other Mac OS X users to upload, click on Calender>Publish. From there, choose where you want to publish it (.Mac address or private server). Enter the URL and choose what you want to publish. Then, when your done, click on Publish.

To subscribe to another iCal Calender, click on Calender>Subscribe. Enter the URL of the iCal calender you want to subscribe to and click on Subscribe.