

Things is my favourite here but it is NOT CHEAP! There are many, many other free options available. So you can enter the settigns by hand, or use iCloud to sync your settings. What iCloud does when it comes to mail is that it syncs the Mail Account information (username and password etc) to your iPhone.

Then the emails can sync across all your iOS devices and computers just from your mail account – you don’t need iCloud or anything. Just be sure to use IMAP (not POP) when you set up your mail.

You can setup your computer and iPhone to use any email provider that you want (eg Gmail, Hotmail, Apple mail or whatever) and the mail will sync across. When I go shopping my wife can add items from home while I am shopping and I will notice them in the shopping list! Mail Accountsĭo it manually or use iCloud if you want. Therefore Notes only has a few files, eg house cleaning plan, lists of presents, our shopping list. She would be overwhelmed with all my other notes! For this I use the built in notes app synced over iCloud to both our phones. I have a much smaller set of notes (about 10) that I sync with my wife. My Notational Velocity currently has 748 notes in it: song lists, research material, bits of computer code and so on. I find it handy to have 2 separate Notes apps. This is a beautiful combination and superior to Notes in many ways. For more info see here. Use Notational Velocity (on the Mac) synced with Simplenote (iOS). Use Notes app on your iPhone and computer – they sync with iCloud. If you want to share outside of the Apple ecosystem (eg to an Android phone like Google or Samsung) read this article. Use built in Calendar app on your iPhone and OSX, and sync via iCloud.

If you have an Android phone read this article on how to sync iCloud with Google Contacts. This will keep you iPhone and computer in sync. Use Apple built in Address book (OSX) and Contacts (iOS) and they sync over iCloud. If you have an Android Phone read this article instead. Here’s my suggestions as to the best solution for each area that needs syncing. There are a number of ways to synchronise different kinds of information. If you have an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch you’ll want the latest information available on each one.
