Tuesday, December 15, 2015

CalenMob now called Tiny Calendar



With some updates and a name change, CalenMob seems to be the same as always.  After trying several calendars I settled on this one 2 years ago, and have not regretted it.  Tiny Calendar is the iPhone or iPad version (or display) of Google Calendar.  On my PC I use Google Calendar to add and change events and then they show up on the iPhone and iPad under Tiny Calendar app.  Of course you can add events on your iPhone app but it is much harder to see and do that kind of detailed work. Always it syncs back to Google Calendar.

Note that this (Google Calendar really) shows all holidays automatically, and you can program one recurring event at the top of each week’s display (or just a few days of it) – such as your assigned time to do something at your church, or vacation time share.  That’s very useful for me, because when I am booking something new on a date, I can see, immediately, that it will be a conflict with some recurring event that week.

Functionality is reasonably good, but it is small to read on the iPhone (5-S) screen.  Great on the iPad or the PC.  But, it appears that Google lacks interested in adding features or keeping it up to date.  I guess it is not a revenue builder, but --- it is a vital crutch for many of us, and I am sure we, collectively, would like to see Google pay more attention to this program – more and better color for events, ability to change the default color for an event (it is now blue, and can be changed, but all new events are in blue – very hard to read with black text inside a dark blue bar – I change all mine to yellow, manually, one at a time.  They could fix that, but they don’t). 

Of course a great feature is the ability to put in a birthday of a friend and tell the calendar to repeat that date every year for "X" years.  This is probably one the many best reasons to go digital with a calendar -- repetition is easy and accurate. Not so with paper calendars. 

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