Context: was looking for a decent service to give me a calendar a little while back but one thing that kept stopping me is there seems to be absolutely no service that just offers you a nice calendar, its only email services that happen to offer a calendar on the side.
I don’t want another email. I have enough, and my current one is tied down to gmail (but I’d prefer if my calendar wasn’t).
I’m sure there must a historical reason for this, but also why is does it still persevere?
One is a scheduling and time management thing, the other a communication system. I don’t need to sign up for a messaging app to have a todo list.
The two aren’t even well integrated smh.
I recently tried to get away from outlook as my primary email / calendar. Tried a couple of different providers only to discover just how reliant I am on having seamless calendar invites.
Manually attaching .ICS files to email was not going to cut it. No matter how good caldav is for my phone to desktop, I need to easily make events / respond to them.
I’d suggest Google because they integrate calendar, email, chat, teleconference, and mapping pretty well. But, that’s kinda like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Shared calendars do honestly work alot better in Google than anything using Outlook though.
Indeed it would be. I’ve recently degoogled by installing Graphene on my phone too.
I’d never really used my gmail account for email or calendar previously anyway as I never liked it from the start. It’s just what my android’s have been tied to.