Extensions: Organize Your Time with a Digital Agenda

In this video, you will create a reminder for someone's birthday.

The reminder will notify you when their birthday is coming, so you can make a card, send an email, or call them to wish a happy birthday.

To start, create a contact.

When you create a contact, you add someone's name, email address, and other personal information, like their birthday, to your Contacts folder.

To begin, open your Contacts page.

Create a new contact.

Add any information you have about the person.

This should only be things that your contact shared with you, which you have permission to add.

For example, they might have given you their email address.

And other personal details, such as their birthday.

Or, if you don't know their birthday, choose any date for now -- just to practice the skill.

You can always go back and add their real birthday later.

Type in the date as month, day, and year.

For example, 11/20/2011 To see your contact's birthday in your calendar, return to the calendar application.

And go to their birthday week.

If you do not see the birthday, check that the birthdays calendar is checked on the left side of the screen.

Now, add a reminder for your contact's birthday.

Add a title.

Include the birthday in the title, so you will remember the day when you see the reminder.

Add the reminder for one week before your contact's birthday to help you remember to wish them a happy birthday.

Set the reminder time.

And have the reminder repeat daily, so you won't forget.

Finally, save your reminder.

Now, it's your turn: open your contacts page, create a new contact, add your contact's details, including their birthday, save the contact, and create a reminder for their birthday.

In this video, you'll add events to help you be organized and on time in your personal life.

You could add a family event or a time when you plan on doing something with your friends.

You will create personal events in a new calendar.

Using a new calendar makes your personal events a different color from school events, so they stand out.

This makes it easier to distinguish between a doctor's appointment or a rehearsal at school, for example.

To begin, open your calendar.

Next, add a new calendar.

Give your new calendar a name.

And add a description.

Then return to your full calendar.

Change the color of your personal calendar to make it stand out.

Make sure you can see your new calendar, so your personal events show up in your main calendar.

Now, create a personal event.

Choose the "Personal Events" calendar you created.

Give your event a title.

Select the day your event happens.

Add the times when it begins and ends.

And save your event.

Now, it's your turn: add a new calendar, give it a name, add a description, change its color, and create a personal event in your new calendar.

In this video, you will edit an event in your calendar.

Sometimes, an event's date or time may have changed.

Or, you might learn new information about the event that you want to include in your calendar.

To begin, open your calendar.

Choose an event in your calendar that you want to change or update.

Then, edit the details of the event.

If the date or time has changed, correct them in the event.

Next, change the color of your event to make it easier to see in your calendar.

If you did not already add a description, add one now.

Adding a description is helpful if there are details you want to update about your event.

When you're finished updating the event, save it.

A pop up will appear asking if the edits you made should apply to "this event," "this and following events," or "all events." Select "This event." Now, it's your turn: select an event, change the date or time, change the color, and add a description.