Jennifer Moore 😷Apr 3

#AskFedi: Is there a calendar which can run locally on a Linux laptop, which

• when given permission, can view events from a Google Calendar account

• without reciprocally showing Google the rest of what's in my schedule?

I'm not sure if that's a thing!

Asking because I currently have a work role where Google Calendar is the chosen one, and I don't like the idea of telling Google my personal business (more than it already knows), but sometimes it would be useful to see all of it together.

Bonus points if it lets you select event colours from a colour picker. I do like a nice colour code :-)

#Linux #calendars #CalendarSoftware #privacy

Show threadJennifer Moore 😷Apr 4

Calendar software update...

@neil @diazona @hyc @woof @mementomori @avoca @xanderekpl @samuel

Thanks all, I went and did a bit of reading based on your recommendations, and I have a much better sense now of the calendar territory. (and SuperProductivity, not exactly a calendar but interesting)

And then... When I was imagining the different options in use, I realised that _none_ of them was exactly what I wanted, because of the frustrating smallness of a laptop screen when I want to look at the whole year! What I was actually craving was a physical year-planner display which can be hung on a wall. Non-electronic solution :-)

Thinking it over, I also remembered I can supplement that with reminders from Remind. I use that for recurring things already, like "renew library books" or "put bins out", but there's nothing to stop me putting in a few one-off events as well if it would be useful.

So thanks for the food for thought assisting my thought-experiments, and I shall bookmark this thread in case I do need one of the other ones later :-)

#calendars #CalendarSoftware

Show threadAvoca

@unchartedworlds @neil @diazona @hyc @woof @mementomori @xanderekpl @samuel

No problem, thanks for the update.

But, just to "throw the cat amongst the pigeons", for less than US$50.00 you could pick-up a second-hand 27" flatscreen monitor plus matching cables and wall mount that instead. Most laptops are capable of running an external monitor as well as the 'lappy' screen.

At least it would be dynamic.

Apr 4 at 3:25pmWeb
Show threadJennifer Moore 😷Apr 4

@avoca

Yes you're right, and I've actually thought before about the advantages of having the planning stuff up on a big monitor on the wall! But my current laptop can only drive 2 screens, and I already need those for working on, so there would be a whole other level of palaver to having a wall display one as well - either new laptop with more outputs, or else having a different machine driving that one. Plus I like the peace and quiet of switching everything off sometimes, and then it's handy if noticeboards and suchlike still exist :-)