My iPad™

6 Organizing Your Life

In this chapter we learn how to add and look up contacts and calendar events. We’ll also look at the Notes app.

→ Adding a Contact

→ Searching for a Contact

→ Working with Contacts

→ Creating a Calendar Event

→ Using Calendar Views

→ Creating Notes

If you have many friends and get invited to lots of parties, you can use the iPad to organize your life with the default Contacts and Calendar apps. Let’s take a close look at some of the things you can do with the Contacts and Calendar apps.

Adding a Contact

If you use Address Book on your Mac or the equivalent on Windows, all your contacts can transfer to your iPad the first ...