Jacqui says that she uses her Mac and iPhone equally for adding appointments. Because all the major calendar apps sync with Google Calendar now, “it’s too much of a mess for me to extract into anything else.” “This started back when I still had an office job and was using a Windows PC to program on,” meaning iCal and iCloud weren’t even options at the time. Like me, she uses Google Calendar as the “main hub” for all her calendar syncing. Jacqui Cheng is the editor-in-chief of The Wirecutter. I’m okay with my approach, but some Apple power-users I spoke to had alternative approaches that are worth considering. I use Fantastical and Apple’s Calendar on my Mac, Fantastical on the iPhone, and Calendar on the iPad. Today, I rely on Google Calendar to keep my appointments in sync between my Mac and my iOS devices. That hasn’t worked since the late 1990s, though. There was a time when I managed my calendar by keeping a Post-It note with important meetings written down on it.
