I use a combination of the Reminders and Calendar apps to mark entries of academic conferences I participate. One interesting thing for me personally would be to find a way to read the appointments in the Reminders app (presumably a sqlite3 db somewhere in iCloud) and create corresponding dates in the calendar, such that whenever I add a reminder to submit papers to a conference, this would automagically block that calendar slot for the dates of the conference such that I know not to schedule in person meetings with anyone in those dates.
I use a combination of the Reminders and Calendar apps to mark entries of academic conferences I participate. One interesting thing for me personally would be to find a way to read the appointments in the Reminders app (presumably a sqlite3 db somewhere in iCloud) and create corresponding dates in the calendar, such that whenever I add a reminder to submit papers to a conference, this would automagically block that calendar slot for the dates of the conference such that I know not to schedule in person meetings with anyone in those dates.