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.

    • @LesserAbe
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      51 year ago

      It’s fine if you don’t have a need for invites. But question was why are they integrated, and that’s why. For work I’m sure I send or receive a calendar invite every day. If my calendar wasn’t integrated with my mail client it would add a lot of friction to that process.