This week David and Katie tackle the calendar and best practices for managing, sharing and storing information to keep you on track.

Thanks to MPU listener Hay Oborn for assistance with the shownotes this week!

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Links and Show Notes:

Links for this episode:

• Mac Power Users 178: The Contacts Show
  David and Katie discuss the best practices for managing, syncing and organizing contacts.
  
• MPU 042: Contacts and Calendars
  In this episode, Katie and David tackle managing contacts and calendars on your Mac and iOS Devices.
  
• iCloud: Calendar overview
  
• Office - Office.com
  
• Apple - OS X - Calendar
  
• Why aren’t digital calendars smarter? | Macworld
  
• Secrets for Mac
  Secrets is a preference pane that lets you customize many Mac OS X settings that are hidden or incomplete.
  
• PDFpen: Mac PDF Editor - Edit, Sign, and Correct PDFs
  The all-purpose Mac PDF editor! Add signatures, text, and images. Make changes and correct typos. OCR scanned docs. Fill out forms. New in version 6: Microsoft® Word export!
  
• PDFpen OCR Folder Action Script — MacSparky
  
• Automatically OCR Documents with Hazel and PDFpen — KatieFloyd.me
  
• Noodlesoft | Hazel
  Hazel watches whatever folders you tell it to, automatically organizing your files according to the rules you create. It features a rule interface similar to that of Apple Mail so you should feel right at home
  
• BusyMac - BusyCal
  BusyCal is the ultimate OS X calendar app — packed with powerful time-saving features in a friendly, easy-to-use package.
  
• Flexibits | Fantastical for Mac
  Fantastical's natural language engine is expressive and intelligent so you can write in your own style.
  
• OmniFocus - The Omni Group
  OmniFocus is designed to quickly capture your thoughts and ideas to store, manage, and help you process them into actionable to-do items.
  
• Flexibits | Fantastical 2 for iPhone
  
• Mynd |
  Mynd Calendar is a smart, context aware app that provides you with the information you need to be successful, so you don’t have to do it all by yourself.
  
• Readdle - Calendar 5
  Calendars 5 seamlessly syncs with local iOS calendars, Reminders and even Google Calendar.Now all your events and tasks are in a single application, which is always on hand.
  
• PDFpen Scan+: Scanning and OCR for iPad and iPhone
  The power of your office in your pocket! Scan contracts, invoices, or receipts as PDFs with your iPhone® or iPad®. Use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to make that scanned image into editable text!
  
• Doodle: easy scheduling
  The scheduling tool you'll actually use.
  
• ScheduleOnce
  Online meeting and appointment scheduling software