Dear iCal

Dear iCal,

Can we talk? I really appreciate that you will look in my e-mail and find new calendar events and invites. I get several every day from sources such as Meet Up (both personal & professional groups), work colleges and friends who use Google calendar to organize Dinner & Movie nights. Really. Because you check, I’m far less likely to miss one.

Now, iCal, I’m what you might call a power user. I have separate calendars set up for my personal live, for my business, for the non-profit where I serve on the board, and sometimes special ones for special contracts. Each of the calendars have sub-calendars to sort out events from board meetings, or meetings and conference calls by client. I love that you present them all to me in a unified interface, all color coded, and sync it all cleanly to my iPhone.

So, when I get calendar entries from several sources and sort them into specific boxes, maybe you can understand why it is infuriating to get a pop-up like this:

Hell’s bells, man! Which “this calendar” are you talking about?!