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Posted by satis
Jan 29, 2021 at 04:01 PM

I think apps creating their own calendars is usually a waste of programming resources. I have never seen a proprietary calendar app for a note taker app that could compare favorably to some of the dozens of already-available calendar apps that can natively pull in Apple or Google Calendar data. There are literally dozens of good mobile calendar apps already that work with Google Calendar, and several good PC/Mac ones too. And people in offices who have to use Outlook would be better off pulling in a sync to their existing calendars than having to use a completely different calendar app to work with their notes.

There are some excellent task managers I won’t consider because of this. Things for Mac/iOS uses a proprietary calendar, but its calendar is simply inferior to the one(s) I use. I have less of a need to integrate events with an outliner or a notes app, but it would certainly be a nice feature if it were able to provide 2-way sync.

The number of apps that natively offer two-way sync is rather small unfortunately. The ones I know offhand are TickTick, gQueues and Todoist. It’s possible to automate 2-way sync with an outside service like Zapier but I don’t know of any notes apps that work with it. (Zapier does sync Google Calendar with OneNote but I think that’s it for note-taking apps.)

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 30, 2021 at 05:09 PM

Of course it remains to be seen how useful Amplenote’s calendar will be, but having a calendar—that is a way to schedule tasks—is essential to their stated goal:

https://www.amplenote.com/about_us

So I hope they do a good job.

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