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First: This is an awesome project. I am using it for quite a while now. I'd like to mention a few things that differentiates it from other solution and made me
by GRBurst 6y ago
First: This is an awesome project.
I am using it for quite a while now. I'd like to mention a few things that differentiates it from other solution and made me using it:
1.) Instead of providing a full featured app for the etesync environment on your pc or smartphone, it provides proxies / adapters for the encryption layer that make you use your native tools! What does that mean? I do not need a dedicated etesync calendar app, neither on my smartphone, nor on my desktop. I can add calendars using the etesync adapter to thunderbird and the mobile app provides the calendar natively to android (like davdroid etc).
2.) Light-weight. Compared to e.g. the fully blown Nextcloud, it is very lightweight and does what it does very well.
3) Open source and easy to self-host.
4) Traceability / History. Etesync provides a journal so you can see who added a calendar item.
5) Easy to use. This corresponds with 1) since you don't have to learn a "new" app. You just install it and the rest falls in place :-)
I used radicale for my calenders and tasks before but it neither provides encryption nor the functionality to share your calendars with others. I had to create soft-links on my docker by hand if I wanted to share a calendar. I used nextcloud for this, too - but it always felt clumsy.
Putting it together: I can highly recommend trying it!