Chapter 5. Manage Your Calendars

The iPad's elegant built-in Calendar app lets you manage meetings and appointments. Calendar supports over-the-air push syncing with MobileMe and Exchange accounts—so changes you make on your iPad can be reflected immediately on your other devices, and vice-versa. (For those without a MobileMe or Exchange account, it can also sync with desktop calendar programs over USB, using iTunes as a conduit.)

Calendar's design puts Mac OS X's iCal to shame, but it's still far from perfect. In the next few pages I explain the basics of working with Calendar, and also point out some of its limitations (with suggestions for workarounds where appropriate).

View Your Calendars

To view your calendars, start by tapping the Calendar ...

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