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.

  • S410@kbin.social
    11·
    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.

    • morrowind@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      11 months ago

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

      • S410@kbin.social
        1·
        11 months ago

        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.