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Mynd makes your iPhone calendar better

20 June 2014

I’m an Apple fangirl. As I’ve written here many times, I love love love my iPhone. (I currently have a 5s). I also love using an electronic calendar. I’ve been using iCal for my calendar ever since I got my first Mac in 2008. (Before that, I used a Palm Pilot.)

I use iCal on my MacBook. (I’m currently using version that came with the OS X Lion but am planning to get a new MacBook Pro with Mavericks in the next month or so.) I was perfectly satisfied with the built-in calendar app on my iPhone and the way synched with my computer and iPad. I saw no reason to change anything.

And then my friend, Shannon, told me about Mynd. When she emailed me about it, she wrote, “I never got the point of using a calendar app besides the native one until I tried this. It’s fantastic!” As usual, Shannon is right.

Mynd is an advanced calendar app. I think of it as an overlay over iCal. It takes the information I enter on my MacBook, iPad, or iPhone (whether I enter it in Mynd or with the native calendar app) and makes it smarter and more beautiful.

When I enter an appointment on my calendar and include the location, Mynd monitors the traffic between me and the location appointment and lets me know how long it’s going to take to get there. It sends me a notification when it’s time to leave and it points out when I’m running late. As a punctuality-challenged person, I find this hugely helpful.

In addition, Mynd tells me the temperature where I am and where I’m going. It tells me what people I’m going to be seeing today (including their Linked In photo), it lists the number of reminders I’ve set for the day (and how many are overdue) and it provides a map of the location I’m going. All that is on the one beautifully tiled screen

Mynd allows me to attach Evernote notes to a meeting appointment. It pulls up the Linked In profiles of the meeting attendees and it allows me to schedule meetings from the app—reserving the time slots I’ve offered as meeting time possibilities until the meeting is actually scheduled. I’m sure it has other features I haven’t even explored yet.

Mynd is available for iOS only. You can use it with iCal, Google Calendar or whatever calendar you’re synching to iOS. It’s free and easy to set up. You can download Mynd on iTunes. For more details, check out the Mynd video or this TechHive review.

Tagged with: apps, calendars, iphone, shannon wilkinson, time management

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