Got my first smartphone yesterday. I know, I'm late but I honestly enjoyed the freedom of having to charge my phone every two weeks and being able to drop it without worrying way too much. I really didn't want to but honestly, I just can't credibly graduate with a marketing degree without having a bunch of followers on instagram or whatever. Now that I have it, might as well make the most of it. Any recommendation for a good calendar app? eightbitsamurai, I think you posted about an app once. What do you use? I also bought a domain name with my name. I have to figure out what sort of things to put on there :)
I prefer the calendar app Sunrise. Android 5.0 completely ruined the default calendar. edit: Well shit. Microsoft Is Acquiring Calendar App Sunrise For North Of $100 Million
Lollipop seems to have broken all sorts of things. I'm holding off.
It's not broken, it's just redesigned for tablets. Where I could see an entire week and read most of my appointments, I can now only see 3 days, 6 hours per day and four (!) letters per appointment name line. Lollipop is pretty cool in general. It has a lot of nifty features, I think. What else were you thinking of when you say it's breaking all sorts of things?
I know a few Nexus 7 2012 edition folk who are having horrible trouble with the tablets (wifi / bluetooth problems and performance). And they removed the functionality of the power key menu so all it does now is ... pop up a menu to turn it off. Quibbles, really. I'm sure I'll be bowled over by the leaps forward eventually. Around 5.0.3 .. or 5.1 later in the year.
I've been using Today for my calendar needs, I can sync it with email accounts and it has a great widget.
Is it an Android phone? Google's calendar app isn't terrible.
Then Google's calendar app is already installed and tied to your Google account (if you set up the phone that way.) It will also keep your To Do list for you. Contacts should be installed by default and will sync all your locally added contacts back to Google. Calendar will let you add contacts to meetings. Add Drive and install the Google Docs app for on the go editing of documents and stuff. You can also, now, point your phone at physical documents and have the camera scan them and upload them to Drive where Google will try to convert them into editable documents via OCR. It works some of the time. Switch on Google Now and Google will look at your calendar and remind you about appointments and how long you have to get to them. insomniasexx likes this. It terrifies me.
I do like it but it also terrifies me. Absolutely fucking terrifying. Plus so so so easy. I haven't missed a call or an item on my todo list in ages. That's how privacy experts always said it would happen. We don't give Google our everything until they make it more worthwhile to do it than to not do it.