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.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    14·
    1 year ago

    Probably because that’s how most people know it from work. There it comes from Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes (I think) and Gmail.

    Personally I have my calendars on my own Nextcloud instance. That’s mainly for files. But I use that anyways, so getting calendars, contacts and passwords was a nice bonus.

    • morrowind@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      But I use that anyways, so getting calendars, contacts and passwords was a nice bonus.

      This is how most people seem to think about this. And if it works out for you, great, I’m happy for you. But I don’t think I need to explain to anyone here the evils of bundling.

      • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        I know what you mean. But luckily with such an open platform it’s trivial to migrate my data to other applications should the need arise.