Standalone Native Evernote Calendar

[Fixestcat 10]

When can we finally expect EN to have an integrated standalone calendar like for example TickTick? Can't believe that EN is still relying on the crutch that Google Calendar is. A native EN calendar is critical for improving the product, because integration of any 3rd party calendars requires an interface, which will lead to hick-ups, glitches however you want to call it.

Google has a Calendar and Task, Microsoft has a calendar and tasks, why is EN - as a productivity system - lacking this essential function?

 

[PinkElephant 8,996]

Because it’s not essential at all.

A stand-alone calendar means yet ANOTHER calendar. You maintain it separately (and have to keep it all in mind), or you need to sync it to another.

And here we are: Calendar(s) needs to be synced. Doesn’t matter if you sync it IN or OUT. I prefer the full calendar I have, and EN devs to stay focussed on making EN better. On my list of what the devs should do next, an additional calendar is not even a footnote.

[Fixestcat 10]

See it exactly the other way around:

1. EN forcing me to sign up to another service, e.g. Outlook Calendar, Google Calendar to be able to use a calendar within EN - whereas a calendar is an essential tool in any productivity system - is a no-go, because I don't want to sign up to another service. I want to retire my reliance on TickTick for Tasks and Calendar.

2. The interfaces to 3rd party calendar applications need to be maintained and make EN dependent. That said, I would rather see EN investing in their native ecosystem then an interface.

[dashel 1]

@PinkElephant  I see your point. Most people have a lot of stuff going on outside of their EN system. Committments to people and things outside of one's EN system (colleagues/clients being able to see your open slots, ability to send invites to meetings etc) are arguably best handled by a 3rd party robust calendaring system or other work system.

But there are solopreneurs with maybe a just couple of assistants or subcontractors that want to unify all their systems into Evernote.

EN already has a calendaring system that internally has all the nuts and bolts to offer a way better user experience for solopreneurs that don't need something like google calendar to handle a dozen separate inputs into their calender. EN just chooses to cripple their calendar for some ungodly reason.

It's incomprehensible that I need to create a separate event in google calendar just to place a stupidly simple but important EN task in Evernote's own calendar.

It's crazy that EN's calendar interface offers just a single day's view when the data is already in there to throw up a simple 5 column, 7 column, or 31 grid layout on the home page. 

 

[PinkElephant 8,996]

Let's put it that way: It seems they have other game to hunt right now.

[dashel 1]

Hopefully that "other game" is not a pink elephant.

[PinkElephant 8,996]

Tuskers may take out the hunter, before he can take out the tusker.