Calendar Magic Review

Calendar Magic comprises a rich collection of educational tools designed for helping you work with various types of calendars, carry out date conversion operations, use a countdown timer and stopwatch, set up reminders, take quick notes, as well as make use of different mathematical calculators and currency and unit convertors. All the goodies come for free, and you may install the app on all Windows operating systems.

User interface

“Tip of the Day” welcomes you each time you open the application and reveals several pieces of information about how to make the most out of this tool. Additionally, you may go to the previous or next tip or disable this notification.

The GUI may be too plain and simple for some users, but taken into consideration that it manages to combine a rich suite of date and time options with a seamless navigation mode, this clearly represents an advantage. You may also rely on the tooltips for viewing short descriptions of each dedicated parameter.

Prior configuration settings are recommended when you run the program for the first time, namely specify your country and city or town via Options menu.

Calendar Magic reveals the country and location you have chosen at the bottom part of the main window and displays the local sunrise and sunset time values adjusted for DST if applicable. You can select the town or city from a preset list and in case it’s not included in the database, you should choose one nearby in the same time zone.

An enlarged viewing mode is supported when you want to check out any lengthy output displayed in the main window. Plus, you may turn off or on the Julian day value from the main screen.

If you have set up reminders, a red or orange diamond symbol is embedded at the top right-hand corner of the main screen. Red indicates that the reminders are set for the current date while orange signals the existence of one less than one week away.

The time and date utilities (e.g. Calendars, Dates, Time, Reminders, Quick Notes, Math Utilities) can be accessed from different panels and you can always go back to the primary panel using the “Main Screen” button.

Working with calendars

Calendars may be displayed using Saturday, Sunday or Monday as the first day of each week, and you are entitled to create either full year or single month calendars.

What’s more, the tool offers support for several types of calendars, such as Dual (e.g. Afghan, Chinese, Egyptian, Parsi Fasli, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Islamic Arithmetical, Indian National, Hindu Solar, French Revolutionary), Planning (e.g. Academic, Bankers, Calendar with ISO Week Numbers, Fiscal, Teachers), and Special (by country: Great Britain, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Spain).

It is important to mention that the Dual mode gives you access to full year calendars showing the months and days for a year in any one of the calendar systems, as well as the corresponding Gregorian dates.

For some of the aforementioned calendars, the tool integrates handy features for printing data, listing the information by country or date, exporting items to plain text file format, making comparisons between two calendars, and checking out an analysis of the Gregorian 400-year cycle.

Date conversion tools

Calendar Magic gives you the freedom to calculate the date, years, months, weeks, and days before or after a given date, make date conversion between the 26 calendar systems included in the package, plus conversions to Aztec Tonalpohualli, Balinese Pawukon, Thai solar, old Hindu Solar, old Hindu Lunisolar, and Mayan date formats.

What’s more, the tool lets you find out the date for a specific time interval (month, day of the month, start and end years), calculate the number of days between two dates, check the date of Easter for a specified year or list the years in which Easter occurs on a custom date, carry out conversions between ancient Greek Olympiad numbering and calendar years, and view the months in which a specified day of the month falls on a weekday.

Last but not least, you can convert British sovereign dates to historical Julian or Gregorian ones, access lists of Western Christian, Eastern Orthodox , Hebrew and Islamic festivals for any (Gregorian) year, reveal New Year’s day for a certain year, study special holidays for any year and for over 230 countries and dependencies, input a date in order to find out if there’s a special holiday, check out the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, as well as enter the date of birth and view comprehensive information about it.

Time calculator, countdown timer, stopwatch, alarms, and reminders

Not only does the program feature date conversion capabilities, but it actually comprises an impressive collection of dedicated tools for helping you add, subtract, multiply, or divide time values with the aid of the Time Calculator, find out the time for different locations around the world, list the time for 12 locations at the same time, and convert Revolutionary to normal time.

Setting up a new alarm can be done by specifying the time, start date, recurrence parameters, number of repeats, sound notifications, and custom text message. Plus, you can time your activities using a basic countdown timer with sound notifications or stopwatch with time lapse recording options, as well as calculate your reaction time by pressing the Stop button as quickly as you can when a letter is displayed in the main window.

Calendar Magic allows you to generate reminders with custom text message and repeating options, list all reminders in the primary panel or sort them by month, list out-of-date reminders, as well as import/export reminder data.

Quick notes, mathematical calculators and other extra features

The Quick Notes feature gives you the possibility to work with 15 tabbed sheets, type in the text message directly into the main panel or paste the information from the clipboard, change the font size, and print the text.

You can work with a wide range of range of mathematical tools which help you make calculations related to geometry, prime numbers, factorizing numbers (for evaluating the HCFs and LCMs of lists of numbers), scientific operations, arithmetic expressions, statistical procedures, expressions containing integers and fractions, and fractions in the Egyptian form, as well as arithmetic operations with very large numbers, and conversion options between different number bases.

The tool provides support for extra calculators, such as Financial, Currency, Fuel Consumption, Ovulation, Pregnancy, Blood Alcohol Content, Body Mass Index, Body Shape Index, Biorhythm, Paper Weight, and others.

Configuration settings

Currency Converter lets you back up data, so you can easily restore it in case something goes wrong, choose the desired utility that is displayed in the main panel, pick your favorite calendar system, show the seconds for revealing the time and year for the current date, change the color of the background, text, and buttons, create a list with your favorite items, alter the font size, as well as set up a master password for making sure other users cannot access sensitive data and change your settings.

The Good

It’s almost impossible to list all the features that should be included in this section, as the tool embeds an overwhelming package of calendars, date and time tools, reminders, notes, calculators, and other utilities.

Good news is that you can easily switch between the aforementioned features and always find your way back to the main window. Plus, there’s also support for printing, exporting and backup options, list with favorites utilities, as well as master password.

The Bad

If there’s a flaw that power users might take into consideration, that’s probably related to the plain and simple looks that the application adopts. However, the straightforward approach comes in handy for rookies, as they can easily find their way around.

Compared to other similar organizers and diaries, this one doesn’t focus on event and task creation options, but it actually gathers various time and date tools bundled in a single package.

The Truth

Taking into consideration the impressive collection of calendars, timers, date and time conversion options, and calculators, Calendar Magic proves to be an essential educational and informative program which can be handled by both home and office users.