Justin Piercy

Why?

Truthfully, because it’s not easy. It’s not seamless. It’s another system to manage that’s difficult to integrate across a wide variety of media.

I have a pretty good mind for my schedule, but it’s not perfect. I mess up, forget, as does anyone. I even recognize the need to keep a calendar, I just haven’t found a solution that seamless enough for me to implement.

I need a system that syncs seamlessley across multiple macs using a desktop app, my google account, and my phone. It also needs to sync with my to-do software, Things.app. I need sync’d alerts on all, my desktop calendar app to open at login, and I don’t need one way syncing. I need to be able to keep multiple calendars and share different calendars with different people. It needs to operate offline but sync in the cloud. Also, it has to be free and work over wifi.

On the front end I know that if it doesn’t do all of these things, then it just won’t work for me. If I could have everything above, then the step to actually keeping and maintaining a calendar would be easier. Until today, I couldn’t find a system that met all of these expectations.

Then I found CalDAV, a protocol that opens the gates of wonder for calendars. Using CalDAV, I can sync iCal and Google Cal, which I can then sync to my iPhone. Alerts go along for the ride and I can sync however many calendars I want. Also, Things.app can now sync with iCal, which then syncs with everything else. I can put in any event anywhere and it magically appears across all my devices, alerts and all.

Hallelujah. I may be late on this boat, but I know many people struggle trying to find a seamless calendar solution. This took a few minutes to set up, but it’s super slick. And free.

This is big. I have never kept a calendar. Until today.

If you suck at keeping calendars, have struggled to find a clean easy solution, and are Mac based, hit me up. I can help:)