I’d like to have a tool to break down my free time in a week and try to get some schedule going on, while also keeping track of upcoming events (import from google calendar would be nice). Ideally no cloud service - would like to have it offline on my PC, and would be nice if it can run in the background and play alerts/notifications for upcoming events.
Are there any tools like this that you can recommend for this? Just trying to get my weeks a bit more structured and doing it in a excel grid, while practical at first, gets tedious fast and has a lot of manual labor involved.
Thunderbird’s Calendar supports local, off-line calendars and tasks.
It’s the best FOSS calendar I have used, even if it has its rough edges.
+1, Thunderbird’s Calendar is the best OSS calendar application out there.
As far as I’m aware, it’s the only one out there that’s still a native client rather than a web app. It was hard enough trying to find a simple CalDav-only oss calendar server. I ended up using Baikal when there are half a dozen or so projects that were supposed to be the next iteration of it. Baikal outlived all of them. But I have to open the database directly at it’s port and sign in if I want to share a calendar between users.
Like, I appreciate Nextcloud, I’ve played around with it a bit and it seems like a great tool. But it’s also kind of an unwieldy swiss army knife of tools. I don’t need or want what is essentially a local network drive accessible outside the house. But it feels like it’s one of the only other good foss calendar servers out there. It feels like contributions to projects like Thunderbird & Baikal have dried up in favour of things like Nextcloud, and I feel like that’s a massive shame.
In general, I agree with the sentiment - at the same time, I think the idea behind Nextcloud is to cover more use-cases at once and serve as some kind of a “extensible platform”… and honestly, it does that quite well
I used thunderbird as a mail client for a while but eventually just gave up and switched to the web UIs, it was simpler and good enough. I didn’t know the calendar was that good, I should give it a try, thanks. Are there any specific features or use cases that make it stand above other (mail) calendars?
