I was puzzled by the lack of some kind of "go-to date" feature in iCal. If you want to move forward or back beyond the mini-month display at left, it only moves one month per click. I have to click & wait (it's slow) 12 times just to look at last September??
I wanted to create events for dates that were quite a distance from the present (I do hope to make iCal my main calendar). Well, why not create dummy events in the calendar to facilitate navigation through a search? So here's a "go to" solution:
I wanted to create events for dates that were quite a distance from the present (I do hope to make iCal my main calendar). Well, why not create dummy events in the calendar to facilitate navigation through a search? So here's a "go to" solution:
- Pick a year in the past that's the earliest date you need to jump directly to
- Create a new event on January 1 of that year.
- Give the event a special one-character name; my choice is omega, which is a special character entered by typing option-z.
- Make it a repeating event repeating every three months; ending "Never".
- In the search field, type the special character (in my example, option-z).
- In the list of search results, click the dummy event closest to desired date.
- Encourage Apple to add date navigation, so that no such kludge is needed
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