Chapter 20: Managing Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, and Notes
In This Chapter
Setting up and using Contacts
Setting up and managing Calendar
Coordinating invitations and group calendars
Setting up and monitoring tasks in Reminders
Taking notes in Notes
Apple's Mail is very likely your central tool for communicating on your Mac. Mail takes advantage of two other applications that come with OS X to help facilitate your communications. One is Contacts, which is your central repository for people's contact information. The other is Calendar, which is your central calendar for appointments.
For example, Mail searches Contacts to find a person's e-mail address when you enter the name in a message's To, Cc, or Bcc field. Mail also can intercept calendar invitations sent to you via e-mail and pass them onto Calendar. (Chapter 18 covers how to use Mail.)
Like Mail, Contacts and Calendar support multiple accounts, so you can access contacts from both your Mac and a server such as Microsoft Exchange or Yahoo, and you can view multiple calendars (such as from your Mac, Exchange, and Google Calendar) in one place.
New Feature
OS X Mountain Lion has renamed the Address Book application from previous versions of OS X to Contacts, and it has renamed iCal to Calendar—in both cases to match the names used in iOS devices (iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches). Also, OS X Mountain Lion has changed the note-taking capability in Mail to a separate application called Notes and has changed the task management ...
