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

    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.