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I'd occasionally catch up with some old friends every now and then, and over
time I made a surprising discovery -- many of them don't really use a calendar
of any sort to manage their lives. Tracking something that happens more than a
week into the future is generally out of the picture.
Many people don't really use a calendar of any sort to manage their lives.
But I understand. Putting events into a calendar is kind of a chore. Traditional
calendar apps still primarily use email for the most part (sending invites,
updating times, etc.) and the new generation of calendar apps suffer from the
social network problem of having to get everyone on the same app.
I get it. Putting events into a calendar is kind of a chore. It's a menial relic
from work and none of us want to even think about creating events during our
coveted personal hours. We want to live our lives free from the constraints of
the time boxes on our screens.
The personal management story has always been kind of fragmented. Calendars are
supposed to manage the entire picture of my personal schedule, yet they only see
a small slice of your life. The only things calendars can see automatically with
no intervention on my part are emails that are sent from airlines.
On top of that, traditional calendar apps still primarily use email for the most
part (sending invites, updating times, etc.) and the new generation of calendar
apps suffer from the social network problem of having to get everyone on the
same app.
But to some extent, it's still valuable to have things down in writing rather
than juggling it in our minds all the time.
Which is why it's such a shame that the personal management story has always
been kind of fragmented. Calendars are supposed to manage the entire picture of
my personal schedule, yet they only see a small slice of your life. The only
things calendars can see automatically with no intervention on my part are
emails that are sent from airlines.
> I'm sure Google or Apple could probably ritz up their services to scan text
> and guess events to put on your calendar, but that's missing the point. The vast