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Ask HN: How do you manage your calendars?

by jagaerglad on 12/2/22, 12:36 PM with 1 comments

I'm trying to find a simple open source way to keep all my calendars from different sources like work, university, organizations, and private synced together

On the phone I'm using "simple calendar" and on the computer I'm using "Kalendar", each subscribing to different organization calendars separately, making it a mess. Adding new private events to each obviously won't show on the other

Is there something small and simple I could host on my home server or something that subscribes to each of the external calendars, backs up the events, and generates a subscription link I could use on my client apps on the phone and computers?

One alternative would be to use google calendar and their subscribe to calendar feature but I'd very much rather not, that would be a last resort

How have you all solved the management of your calendars?

  • by alpemre on 12/8/22, 9:43 AM

    I also wanted to avoid Google calendar and ended up with this setup: I have a little linux server home with Nextcloud running on it, where caldav and carddav can be used. In order to sync the outlook calendar at work with the home server, I installed a sync tool to work PC: https://caldavsynchronizer.org/.

    With this setup, I can sync my calendars and contacts between personal devices and work pc. With iphone, one can use cal and carddav out of the box. I remember using https://www.davx5.com/ on my android phone last year. I am not sure if it would still be necessary though.