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.
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.
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.
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.