Tiny Calendar: Planner & Tasks

Being a busy working, soccer and blended family Mom I always loved that I could remember our family’s busy schedules, birthdays, and phone numbers for everyone off the top of my head. I have lupus and have a lot more drs appointments than the average person and lately I haven’t been able to keep my calendar in my head like I’ve always been able to in the past. Missing drs appointments, practices and a parent/teacher conference within the past couple months, I decided I needed to rely on more than just my brain. I tried 2 other apps before Tiny Calendar and was not satisfied. I love how easy it is to add new appointments, or anything for that matter to this calendar. That was the problem I had with the other apps I tried... it was too time consuming just to add anything to the calendar that I never wanted to mess with it. I also like the different views that you can look at your schedule in, for the day, week, or month. Try it... you’ll like it!! 😁

I’ve tried several calendar programs and have actually come BACK to Tiny Calendar. Of all the ones I’ve suffered through these many months, Tiny Calendar is the most user friendly and synchs with and consolidates my iOS and Google bits so I can accept a Google calendar invitation on my desktop, for example, and it will then get pulled into Tiny Calendar (i.e., you can continue to use your other calendar and reminder apps for easy data input, and use Tiny Calendar as the hub of everything. Why not 5 stars? Well, even the paid version of Tiny Calendar doesn’t have the ability to add details to Tasks (besides due date and a label.) I can setup repeating events, set reminders for events, etc. - but not for Tasks. I live and die by my to-do list and like to have it on a real piece of paper, so I’m really bummed. I like to have that oh-so-small-but-gratifying experience of crossing stuff off with a pen. I do like that you can choose to export (email or print) your calendar in a few different versions. Unfortunately I can’t export Tasks... if I could just have a way to print my Task list... <hint hint>

This is by far the most convenient calendar app I have tried.I’ve been using it for over a year, and it has been great. I particularly like that in the month view, dots for events have the color of the calendar they are from, so I can quickly glance at the month view and see what days have different types of activity. Unfortunately, ever since upgrading to iOS 12, I’ve been experiencing a random/intermittent issue where if I am typing the name of an event to add the calendar, it sometimes freezes. Mid-typing, with the last letter I pushed still expanded up from the keyboard. The only way to get out of that is to close the app. I hope the developers will release a new version that fixes this. One other time issue: when typing the number in an event name, the number sometimes gets removed and converted to a time. Eg. when putting in my class schedule, “Biology 101” would get shortened to “Biology” and the time changed from what I had input to 1:01 PM. I hope future versions will include an option to disable this feature.

For the most part, I’ve always liked my Tiny Calendar. There are many features that are very helpful. However, one of the features that is intended to be helpful isn’t! Most of the time, any birthdays or anniversaries that are recorded in your google contacts list are automatically transferred into your Tiny Calendar, although for some reason, Not All of those recorded dates make the jump. In addition, once that data from your contacts list is in your Tiny Calendar, it’s in there permanently. [Events that you load into the Tiny Calendar directly (and are not transferred automatically from your contacts list) do not have this issue.] This is frustrating because if there is a mistake in your contacts list, even if you correct it there, the mistake remains in the Tiny Calendar and Can’t Be Removed!! It is especially aggravating that even if the contact is deleted from your contacts list, the data from that contact remains on your calendar! Ugh!! I have an iPhone 8 (which at this point, is the newest iPhone available), so the problem is not that my phone is old.

Update:~~~ Still removes half my text typed, which is aggravating. Took another star off. When I type “call due at 4pm”. I expect it to set time at 4pm, but not remove the typed message I “Want To read”. Still use despite the issues. Just retype over and over and over. ~~~ I love this calendar to help keep my life straight with appts and important info. Update: Took a star off rating because I started having trouble constantly with my typed subject "disappears" everytime I type words or times to remember. It takes off the typed time and changes the time of I already out in... Or it removes half of the words I typed to remember. This is being beyond "annoying". Plus now ads pop up almost everytime I open calendar. I've been more than happy with this calendar up until last 6 months-year with whatever changes you made.... Now cause typing nightmare by having to"retype over and over my missing subject line and having to change the times it plugged in.