Calendar Applications — How do they Measure up?

Your Calendar is the most powerful tool in your productivity tool kit. Your calendar does not lie. I learned this from following Carl Pullein and also from bitter experience. If you want to follow someone and learn a lot about productivity in the real world — Carl is your man. Your To-Do list can tell you that there are 78 things to do today and makes no comment on how realistic that is. Your calendar gives you 24 hours in a day. It will not over estimate how much time you have. Does that mean therefore, that we should spend more time choosing right calendar application than we do any other app? When we look at all the different available calendar applications — how do they measure up?

The features you need are pretty basic

Honestly, spending time choosing the right app here is not always time well spent. That’s my opinion. The reason is that the features you need are pretty basic. I have yet to meet a calendar app that doesn’t do the basics. Schedule events to a slot of time would be the main one. Giving you different views of your time would be another. They pretty much all do this.

Increasingly I am seeing calendar applications that offer AI scheduling and task management functionality. The former is a bad idea. If you want to understand why an AI computer should not be entrusted with…