iCal

I am a Mac User and my entire office and ecosystem is Apple so iCal is the main Calendar that is shared between me and my team and my customers. As we are only on Apple devices iCal syncs seamlessly across our iPhones and iPads too. We also have a public iCal that is used to book appointments with our team

• As mentioned previously iCal provides more info to me than just an appointment
• i can add attachments like notes or links to other services inside the appointment and these will synchronise across my devices.
• The search functionality in iCal allows me to save items in the notes and then find them at a later stage. An example - I save key information about meetings or activities and then when I am looking for it at a later stage i can jjst search iCal and find it without having to look for documents or through my notes.
• There is no default video call setting (like Google has Meet as a default and Microsoft has Teams) this is a problem in that I can't schedule video calls so the work around is that I sync to a Gmail calender and then schedule the video call (Meet) in Google

Google Calendar and Microsoft 365

Asana, HighLevel, HubSpot CRM, Klaviyo, Planable

I use the Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) app on my Mac to view and manage my Microsoft Exchange/Outlook powered calendar. In my experience, the Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) app is incredibly buggy and I often end up with duplicated events (or no events) that don't/do appear if I view my calendar directly in Outlook. It's more common than not that my Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) calendar is out of sync in some way with Outlook. I've been using this setup for about five years and Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) has been a constant, consistent battle for me. I don't recommend using Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) with Microsoft Exchange/Outlook calendars.

• Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) has caused me to miss meetings because it didn't sync up properly with my Microsoft Exchange/Outlook calendar
• Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) has caused me frustration because it will often show duplicate events that aren't duplicated in my Microsoft Exchange/Outlook calendar.
• Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) has caused my headaches and wasted my time by causing me to have to manually re-sync my Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) calendar with my Microsoft Exchange/Outlook calendar. Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) offers no easy way to do this automatically.

Microsoft Exchange

Slack, Microsoft Visual Studio Code

We use iCal to coordinate private and shared availability times of our employees to help manage our time better. We have private as well as shared calendars setup and populated with the relevant information needed to plan our upcoming day, week, and sometimes month. Apple iCal allows us to not only plan for the time consideration of the event in question, but the travel time and prior preparation time needed for the event as well. We have notifications setup for reminders before, day of, and time to leave to ensure we are where we need to be.

• Mostly intangible positives such as being on time
• Having a realistic idea of your daily time commitments
• Communicating those realistic time commitments to customers so they are not waiting on you.

Google Calendar

I am currently a Mac user and its calendar for more than 9 years and over time the application has improved a lot, for me ical on a day-to-day basis helps me schedule my tasks, schedule meetings, add guests, and even allows me to add notes or links. for easier use. I have the facility to program it on the mac and be able to see it on any iOS device. scheduled alerts and reminders work very well. It is very easy to use, it even allows you to copy events or reschedule them in a very simple way.

• Before, I used other apps to remind and schedule events like Evernote, but ical has improved a lot and now I can bring all my schedule here, including those from other emails, since it allows me to synchronize my tasks.
• it is easy to create meetings very quickly without paying licenses like in other applications

Google Calendar

Cisco Meraki MR, Cisco Meraki SD-WAN, Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

I use Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) everyday in my professional life and my personal life. The problem I faced was keeping my professional calendar from conflicting with my personal calendar. With iCloud Calendar, I can see my professional schedule, personal itinerary, and my family's activities. It allows me to thoroughly schedule all 3 aspects without conflicts.

• made scheduling less confusing
• made scheduling less conflicting
• made scheduling easier to plan future events

Google Calendar

Dropbox, Apple Pay, LogMeIn Pro