Outlook is pretty good, and exchange does a decent job of making calendars available on mobile, web, or desktop client.
The outlook web app is the expected future.
Does it not work well with other calendar servers?
I like GNOME calendar, but it can’t deal with my work outlook calendar.
Thunderbird has it finally on the roadmap, but yeah …
*laughs in khal*
I don’t really use calendaring all that much, but when I do, I use org-mode agenda in emacs, which seems to do all the stuff that he’s complaining about. It does a lot more than I use.
That being said, I get that that’s probably not what he’s after if he’s not an emacs user.
Oh hey, fellow org user!
I’m in the same boat. I don’t do calendaring that much, but agenda is what I use when I’m time blocking tasks.
My main complaint is that I can’t get it to sync to my Google calendar. I have tried org-gcal but the gpg encryption never works for me so I just gave up. I would have liked it to have easier viewing on mobile, but that’s minor enough that I don’t care. Orgzly with notifications on lets me know when its time to do something anyway.
The author seems dead set on a tauri calendar implementation. I came across what is apparently a scheduling toolkit in rust:
https://github.com/fmeringdal/nettu-scheduler
Which I guess could be used to build a desktop calendar app. One flaw in the ointment is that a calendar program really needs email integration. Downloading an ICS file and manually transferring that over to your calendar app isn’t going to cut it.
Which brings us to the lack of solid calendar servers. I’ve searched but I haven’t found anything popular, OSS, easy to install, and useful for groups. Radicale exists but multi user support is a janky hack, while Nextcloud has unreliable sync. I’m looking for features like:
- reliable calendar sync
- sharable calendars.
- scheduling help - when to have a meeting?
- how many attendees for a group event, how many invited etc.
I’d much rather have Tau’ri calendar software than Goa’uld software of any kind. Who knows what kind of malicious code those snakes have snuck in there?
Any CalDAV server will do. Radicale is an exception. I also find it too simple/barebones.
I have been running Baïkal for years. Multiple users and devices (iOS, Android, MacOS, Linux, Windows etc) with multiple calendars per user, a decent admin web ui, pretty lightweight, easy to install and configure and zero maintenance.
Or just set up your own exchange server.
Personally I miss a proper calendar that can be used directly in a web browser. Like Google calendar but with the frontend living on my own server.
Scheduling and event management should be done in a client if you ask me.
Rainlendar is good and works on Windows and Linux. It’s not open source though, and some features such as Caldav support require a pro license for €10
I really don’t see the issue. If the work account uses Google or Microsoft I use their respective web apps and export an ICS link to see the blocked slots in my own personal calendar.
For my own personal calendar I use CalDAV, which is widely supported, and an app that can import ICS links. (Self-hosted Radicale server and the Calengoo app for mobile and desktop, for the curious.)
Was not prepared for the Diablo II reference lmao
And yet it illustrates his point so poignantly!
Mac calendar isn’t a disaster?!
News to me. It’s easier and less fuckery to open a terminal and type cal -3 than to use their shit
Linux user here. I don’t know of an open desktop calendar app that supports the protocol I need (CalDAV) without being one or more of:
- Bloated
- Too simplistic to be useful
- Too annoying to use (poor UI)
The best compromise I’ve found so far is Thunderbird. It’s a bit bloated, but far less so than anything built with Electron. I find the UI annoying, but tolerable for lack of a better option.
It would be nice to see some new work in this area. It’s a similar situation with email apps.
