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Calendar recommendations?

~walk

Hi! I've never used a calendar. I'm not capable of maintaining it up to date.

I don't look it up because it is not complete. It is not complete because I won't look at it...

Maybe the problem is that I didn't find the calendar that works for me...

- I tired paper: It is a mess, very inefficient, I forget it, ...

- I tried framagenda.org but I having to synchronize was a pain. I've a pinephone with Phosh, if I wanted to edit something I had to make sure It was synchronized...

Maybe I could use something like calendar.txt ?

Simplicity is a pro, but it is very verbose and not very convenient... Also, how can I synchronize it effectively? nextcloud conflicts are inconvenient. I don't like git too much, (having to remember to commit, pull, push, etc... is extra effort)

What do you use to keep a calendar?

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~ew wrote:

Howdy!

~bartender? Just coffee, please.

Calendar.

Well, after trying a number of things myself my answer to your question is this:

The technology is kind of irrelevant. What is relevant though, is the habit of having this thing at your fingertips practically always. If you don't have it at hand in less than 5 seconds, it will rot. In my not so humble opinion it is that easy. It got better for me only after I established a weekly review, where I look at the past week and the next. Without that weekly review (on Sundays) the calendar thing sinks into irrelevance fast. And lately I have succeeded in having the thing in my hands when making new appointments. After all these years :)

Some details:

in the kitchen there is the family calendar on paper. I print this thing out every year. If something is NOT in there, it does not exist. If something else is in there at the same day, that something else wins.
I have tried twice to use a smart phone. Does not work for me. Even though synchronizing to a private NextCloud instance did work.
I use emacs/org-mode for most of my stuff, but calendar is a paper thing, 2 pages per month.
Private and work life are two distinct areas with negligible overlap.

Good luck!

~pandion wrote (thread):

I use the CLI program "remind" it takes some studying to learn it's syntax, but it is quite powerfull. All data is in a text file, that I can synchronize between phone and laptop. And also there is a ncurses frond end program called "wyrd" that displays your calendar in a nice visual way.

~threkk wrote:

I use the calendar service of my email provider, and have it quite visible in all my devices. It is one of the little few things that is allowed to have notifications. The fact that I can put almost anything there (and the rest goes in a to-do list) helps me to make mental space, something very scarce nowadays.

~walk wrote:

I think I'll give `when` a try. I still don't know how to do synchronization easily...