Google Calendar

Choosing between Apple Calendar and Google Calendar is not just a question of which app looks better. If you use your iPad as a planner, the real question is: Which calendar works better with the way you actually plan your day? For many people, the calendar is where appointments live. But an iPad planner is where the day becomes visible, flexible, and personal. Especially if you use Apple Pencil, your planner is not only a place to check your schedule.…

Finding a good iPad planner is easy. Finding an iPad planner that works well with Google Calendar is much harder. There are hundreds of beautiful digital planners for iPad. Many of them look like paper planners. Some are sold as PDF templates for GoodNotes, Notability, or other note-taking apps. They can be great if all you want is a pretty place to write. But if you already use Google Calendar for meetings, classes, appointments, deadlines, or family schedules, a static…

You use Google Calendar for everything. Now here’s how to get those events into the planner you actually write in. Google Calendar is the default for millions of people — for work schedules, shared family calendars, and everything in between. But if you plan your day by hand on an iPad with Apple Pencil, you’ve probably hit the same wall: your calendar lives in one app, and your planner lives in another. The result is double-entry. You check Google Calendar,…