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What's you calendar organization scheme?

  1. Do you have 1 or more calendars, what are they called?
  2. Do you differentiate between events and tasks/todos?
  3. Does it make sense to have a seperate Holidays calendar?
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  • One Calendar, one task list and a few physical lists.

    • the calendar: Thunderbird and FossifyContacts + DAVx5 with my mail provider
    • the list: Thunderbird (want to change that) and tasks.org

    Using GrapheneOS and Fedora Kinoite

    If someone knows a good, simple, best GTK (yes I love tons of GTK apps on KDE) task app that doesnt distract, please recommend.

  • I use Google account calendar and tasks. On my phone I use Google Calendar and Tasks.org app, syncing both with Google account. On my computer I use Gnome Evolution for everything including email — in me experience it's far more compatible with Google than Thunderbird.

    I have several subcalendars: a personal one for events I add manually, one for holidays, one for birthdays and anniversaries (which is generated automatically basing on contacts data), one subscribed from Facebook events, one for film releases and one for garbage truck schedule. Only the personal one and garbage one are manual, all other are synchronised from someplace else

    For tasks I use 3 lists: a personal one, one for university stuff (though I graduated so it's sitting idle) and one for work tasks. The last one is only for stuff important enough to not keep it only on my work phone and Outlook, like sending in timesheet.

    Yes I do differentiate between events and tasks because they have entirely different purposes.

    Yes it makes sense very much to have a separate holiday calendar because you can easily sync it and not fill in holidays manually and also colour ccode it inside your calendar app

  • Personal: Google. I just dump everything in as an event, no real organization. Really useful to remind me to do things like swap out batteries, filters, car and home maintenance, doctor appointments, etc.

    Work: I put everything in the Outlook calendar except for time off, which goes into Teams. Hate them both. If it's just a dumb little reminder thing, I make sure it's marked as both private and not busy. I'm sure my boss can see it anyway, but I don't want to make it look like I'm blocking off my availability for no good reason.

    Holidays: I refer to whichever dumb calendar is already open.

    I sometimes still write things on a nearby notepad or even put post-its on my monitor. They don't stay there for very long, but sometimes it's nice to have a physical / tactile element in play.

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