Decent calendar app for iPhone?

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Torque

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#71271 7-Nov-2010 18:41

Just wondering if anyone knows of any good calendar apps out there - I work a rotating shift pattern which I always work the same hours for the same period of days, then have a certain period of days off.

I want something in which I can enter my shifts and days off into once (Ideally) and then be able have it repeat over and over again.

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#401484 7-Nov-2010 21:42

I work 2 day shifts 7am to 7pm then 2 night shifts 7pm to 7am then 4 days off, repeat.

With Outlook/Exchange each of the 4 shifts can be entered as a "recur every 8 days" event, an iPhone app that does this would be great for me also.

(I have been too lazy to look so far)

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#401489 7-Nov-2010 22:04

I'm not disimilar - 6 days on, 4 off. Your shift pattern sounds a lot like either the Ambo roster or the Fire one..

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#401496 7-Nov-2010 22:25

Bingo :-)

For those with Ambulance/Fire or on the same pattern, http://zaf.geek.nz/projects/firewatch/ is great

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#401519 8-Nov-2010 00:33

I came across this program in one of my RSS feeds, don't know if it will have what you want though:

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/11/readdle-updates-calendars-app-google-tasks-support/

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#401636 8-Nov-2010 12:31

Cheers, will take a look and see if that works. Otherwise I'll just PDF my five week roster and use that, but rather a calendar app.

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#401849 8-Nov-2010 20:41

The iphone calendar can be populated from:

google calendars
mobileme
ical
exchange
yahoo maybe and I think also hotmail

You might also be interested in generating an ics or ical file to import (you could generate the files from a script or even an excel file every couple of weeks). Eg. enter the first day of the roster, it generates the start or finish times then you import it into the calendar.

Hope this helps,

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#401968 9-Nov-2010 09:37

Cheers all, managed to set up Google Calendars to work - just set up one set of shifts and days off, and then had each repeat every 10 days. Syncs along with GMail, which is great. Using mobile me trial for the find my iphone app.

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#402277 9-Nov-2010 18:11

How about Calvetica - http://www.calvetica.com

Beautiful interface and seems to offer quite a lot of ways to set up repeating alarms etc

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#402321 9-Nov-2010 20:20

I use calvetica primarily, but it sure has its bugs which are being worked on. it's the fastest to punch in an entry. best thing about calvetica is that it uses the built in calendar app database. So as I have lockinfo on my JB 3gs, the calendar component of lockinfo reads from that database and I have my calendars show up on the lock screen. Calendars/Calengoo listed below don't do this.

I back it with Calendars which is the best google cal app I've found thus far for interface. Only prob with this, and why I use calvetica is that it can be slow to sync when I just want to punch in an entry as the Mrs is dictating it to me. So I generally use it to fix up whatever calvetica has got wrong.

I use to use Calengoo which had more options but the above Calendars is much nicer to work with.

Believe me, I've tried them all.