Google Calendar
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I've personally moved onto google's free gmail calendar scheduling tool”
“(and are free: weawow https://weawow.com/i/app-download + google callendar)”
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“I use Google Calendar as my todo list. Syncs across devices.”
“Google Cal will auto-decline meetings that occur during ‘out of office’ events.”
Caveats and dissent
“Isn't this likely because Google Calendar was abused a lot in phishing?”
“Google can flood me with spam filled Google Calendar Invites”
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“Google Calendar was buggy with local calendars”
“some apps still add events to the (apparently default) Google calendar even after I disabled Google Calendar app”
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Data: google-calendar.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 22
“Isn't this likely because Google Calendar was abused a lot in phishing?”
“there's no way in the web app to assign a default calendar for new events”
“Google can flood me with spam filled Google Calendar Invites”
“directly sync it to my Google family calendar”
Someone said it doesn't work anymore for Workspace accounts, which I use. It did work, though, and it wasn't communicated when it stopped.
“I embedded a Google Calendar widget on my Book a demo page”
“I've personally moved onto google's free gmail calendar scheduling tool”
“creates a google calendar (.ics) feed as output”
“Google Calendar was buggy with local calendars”
“some apps still add events to the (apparently default) Google calendar even after I disabled Google Calendar app”
“doesn't support drag and drop for adjusting event times”
“Todoist + Gcal events on the kindle”
“(and are free: weawow https://weawow.com/i/app-download + google callendar)”
“we use Google calendar to find times that work”
“work Google Calendar”
“Would have taken months for Google Calendar integration”
“I use Google Calendar as my todo list. Syncs across devices.”
“I used to never use GCalendar at all, but now, due to work, I have to.”
“Google Cal will auto-decline meetings that occur during ‘out of office’ events.”
“Google Calendar (we use Workspace at my current org) doesn't even have solid support for good meeting invite commentary.”
“Im finalizing the Google Calendar integration for Ganttify.”
They integrate with radicale since May this year for card- and caldav https://opencloud.eu/en/news/opencloud-calendar-and-contact-management-available-community