I’m looking for a google calendar replacement that isn’t nextcloud, has a descent mobile app with widgets, and authentication built in. I’ve seen plenty of recommendations via search but i’d like to hear what you personally use and what you like about it.

  • Kalcifer@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    I use Nextcloud’s Calendar to sync to other calendar apps over CalDAV.

    • KelsonV@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Same. Thunderbird now has native support for CalDAV and I use DAVx5 to sync it with my Android devices.

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      +1 on Baikal, way better than Nextcloud except for invites. There are some details that don’t work as expected with inviting people and changing invites afterwards.

      • tiwenty@jlai.luEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Indeed it’s not really invites-friendly. But what I like is that it’s really light, and avoid cluttering my Nextcloud. My Nextcloud is just for files, syncing and sharing them. That’s all, and that avoids a lot of headaches when backuping for instance.

        • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I plan to someday look at the Baikal code seriously and fix the invite mess. It seems it simply isn’t evaluating every well changes and not sending the appropriate invites.

          My experience with NextCloud is mostly JS errors and… https://lemmy.world/comment/346174 I can’t recommend it to anyone.

    • observantTrapezium@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Baikal is lean and great. I use it and sync to my Thunderbird (using the TbSync extension) and Android phone (using DAVx⁵).

  • dalz@fedi.alsd.eu
    8·
    2 years ago

    I use radicale, DAVx5 and Simple Calendar Pro. I tried to use GNOME Calendar on the desktop, but its caldav support is too buggy to be usable, and I ended up using the calendar on my phone only.

    Before simple calendar I used Etar, but it had a very annoying bug where it changed the date (or time, I don’t remember) every time I edited an event. Plus, simple calendar can send birthday notifications if you have them in your contact book.

    • zerodawn@leaf.danceOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      This looks like a great fit for my use case, i’ll dig into this more, thank you.

      • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        +1 for this.

        I have radicale running for the family and we use DavX and Simple Calendar too.

        I personally also use Vivaldi’s built in calendar and Outlook’s CalDav Sync addin connected to radicale too - all works a treat

  • Anafroj@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    62·
    2 years ago

    I’m going to pass for the crazy person around, but so be it : cron.

    Cron can be easily configured to send mails (MAILTO variable when using standard cron), provided sendmail is available on the system. If a command called by cron outputs anything, it will send a mail with the content, which is useful by itself to warn when something goes wrong with a cron task, but also allows to do things like this:

    0 9 28 9 * echo birthday John

    It’s really easy to get used to the syntax, it’s just going from more precise to less precise, so it’s “minute, hour, day, month, *”. The last one can usually be ignored (it’s the day of the week, I must have used it twice in my life). So here, “0 9 28 9”, you read it backward and it gives : September, 28th, 9:00. Piece of cake when you get a bit of practice. And cron is everywhere, so no need to install anything. Although, since I run it on my laptop, I use fcron, which has a nice feature to run ASAP tasks which should have ran if the computer was not shut down. This way, I never miss an alert.

    I use it for recurring notes (like birthday, paperwork, house cleaning tasks, holidays, etc), but also as reminders of specific dates when I expect a delivery, have a meeting, etc. For the most important messages, I make it use a script that will make a destkop notification (with notify-send) and have a voice read the message (with mimic). And of course, I also use it to actually launch programs. :)

    • DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Sounds good for setting the events up and getting notifications part. A good calender would also let you see the upcoming events in week, month at a glance. Cron entries are non sorted lists. Is there a cron visualizer like they have visualizers for logs?

  • Treczoks@kbin.social
    4·
    2 years ago

    I use “radicale” as calendar server for the family. Thunderbird can talk to it directly, on Androidd, I use DAVX5 to sync them.

    • conrad82@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I also use radicale.

      For events with other people I use gmail or mailbox calendar though…

  • thisisawayoflife@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I run iRedMail and there’s a calendar solution built in via SOGo. Works like a charm, integrated with K9 Mail and other mail solutions that leverage CalDAV.

    • zerodawn@leaf.danceOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’m seeing a lot of good options involve email servers and if that’s the best route then that’s where i’ll take things but i’d prefer nothing more than a simple, lightweight, calendar service.

      • thisisawayoflife@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        You might take a look at Mobilzon, but that might not be exactly what you’re looking for. It’s more about events than a calendar per se.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Nextcloud of course. And nothing beats the 1-day “week” view widget of Business Calendar Pro. Looks just like a desktop view. It has the best year view, too.