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Ask HN: Do you use a calendar app?
I hate calendar apps.
The entire paradigm seems wrong. That your time is 'empty' until it's filled with an event... feels backwards. Especially when other people are allowed to add things to it.
Yet, I know people live and die by their calendar as single source of truth. I've seen schedules that are "walls of blue" stretching months into the future.
As a developer, most of my time is spent in deep creative work, with a few meetings interspersed. But I hardly need a calendar for that.
So I wonder, do you use a calendar?
- If so, how do you use it? What's your biggest frustration? Is there more you wish it could do (help manage priorities, find more time, etc)? Is there anything better out there than Google or Outlook?
- If no, why not? What is your 'source of truth' for how you plan/allocate your time? Would you put that on a calendar if it was easy and made sense (eg. didn't have to schedule down to the minute)?
- PaulHoule 9y agoI use the calendar built into EM Client. The backend for that is Fastmail. I write scripts to import events into my calendar. For instance, talks from the computer science department at my local Uni. I am maybe 75% hacker, 25% hustler, I find the calendar a great tool for hooking up with people. For my own hacking work I tend to use a paper Kanban system and also am leaning now on getting my wife and child to stamp out "work in progress".