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Pretty much same catch as the mail, its one way. You use their client (or I guess reverse-engineer their API's) and that's it. iCloud calendar integration is r

Pretty much same catch as the mail, its one way. You use their client (or I guess reverse-engineer their API's) and that's it. iCloud calendar integration is read-only (because it is a read-only subscription and not actually authenticating or anything). It also doesn't solve any of the problems I have with calendars... mainly that I have to manage multiple where I'd like to have events be synced (to varying degree) across them. It also introduces new problems... that I can't use my preferred calendar client which has features that Hey does not that I use all the time (such as hiding events).

partdavid 3y ago
"to varying degrees" Very much agree with this. I kind of crave some kind of configurable advanced workflow around calendar categorization, membership, visibility, etc. For example, I want to accept a prompt to create a calendar event from a doctor's office reminder, and I want that shared with certain personal contacts (my spouse) but I want it to show up as "busy" in my work calendar--without my work calendar service knowing the details. I want to be prompted to provide a travel time buffer around it so I don't get scheduled for a meeting before and after my event; when the time comes, I want to be notified about the personal calendar entry but not by the work calendar. This is one example but I feel like these calendar-juggling operations are actually pretty common use-cases these days, besides integrating between iCloud/Gcal calendar users and "arbitrary calendars" like Yahoo or some other calendar thing. Co-parenting with an ex-spouse brought up a whole bunch of other "sync to some degree but not naïvely" use-cases, too. And there's professional use-cases where I'm setting up job search interviews and need to block time on my work calendar(s) but not reveal details.

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Pretty much same catch as the mail, its one way. You use their client (or I guess reverse-engineer their API's) and that's it. iCloud calendar integration is r

by cpuguy83 3y ago

partdavid 3y ago
"to varying degrees" Very much agree with this. I kind of crave some kind of configurable advanced workflow around calendar categorization, membership, visibility, etc. For example, I want to accept a prompt to create a calendar event from a doctor's office reminder, and I want that shared with certain personal contacts (my spouse) but I want it to show up as "busy" in my work calendar--without my work calendar service knowing the details. I want to be prompted to provide a travel time buffer around it so I don't get scheduled for a meeting before and after my event; when the time comes, I want to be notified about the personal calendar entry but not by the work calendar. This is one example but I feel like these calendar-juggling operations are actually pretty common use-cases these days, besides integrating between iCloud/Gcal calendar users and "arbitrary calendars" like Yahoo or some other calendar thing. Co-parenting with an ex-spouse brought up a whole bunch of other "sync to some degree but not naïvely" use-cases, too. And there's professional use-cases where I'm setting up job search interviews and need to block time on my work calendar(s) but not reveal details.