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.

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    11 months ago

    Really can’t tell you where it came from, but which part of the google calendar integration with gmail doesn’t work for you? I’m quite happy with that.

    But have a look at tweek.so, they are a calendar & task planner without email service, and free for personal use.

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      Honestly just trying to get away from google. I did actually use tweek for a bit, but in trying to combine email and tasks lists it ended up being a mediocre version of both, and I couldn’t justify paying for that. Also it only worked with google calendar to work with others (idk if that’s changed)

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        11 months ago

        Fastmail.com (referral link here for 10% off) has email, calendar, storage, notes and contacts, and has been working well for me. Better search and functionality than Proton.

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          right, and I like fastmail, but that goes back to the problem in the OP, I have no interest in storage, email, notes, and contacts, I just want a calendar. In this case I’d be paying like like $30 a year for things I don’t want. If fastmail had fastcal for $1 a month, I’d buy it.

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            11 months ago

            Morgen, perhaps. I addressed your last post which said you’re trying to get away from Google, not avoiding using email at all.

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                It puts appointments on my calendar from other places, and people can add to it also. I can share my availablity.

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            11 months ago

            You do realize you can use a service that provides a bunch of different things, but only use the calendar feature and ignore everything else, right?

            You can also use a local calendar app. Just don’t connect it to anything.
            I use the default Gnome Calendar (because Linux), but Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android have calendar apps as well. Obviously.

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              That’s what I’m doing now but I’d rather not pay for things I’m not using.

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                Do you expect to find a company that sells a calendar-only subscription? “Calendar - 49c/month”?

                I’ve been looking at lot at all kinds of services and most start their pricing at around 5 USD/month. Regardless of how much actual features they actually provide.

                I’d say your best bet is NextCloud. You can rent some, self host or use a free instance (there’s a couple around).

                Personally, I’m self-hosting stuff on a VPS. For whopping 5USD/month I’m getting things I’d be paying 50, if not mere, if they were offered as separate products by your average service-providing companies.