HEY Calendar

Me likely

It’s my preferred calendar. Theresa unnecessary features, but the layout and is so much more intuitive then any I’ve used in the past

I cut the cord last week from Google Workspace - I literally left 30k emails behind, and my calendar (although I had a backup on my iPad). I’m getting used to Hey Calendar the past two weeks. It’s interesting. It forces me to slow down and really thing what I am planning, instead of dumping all my tasks on it. I would say that the only thing that is missing is a task list specific to Hey - their other product Basecamp (which we use) is good, but that is for projects. I need a personal task list too. Other than that it has great features and the interface is very cool. I especially like how they created a timeline of the day from left to right. It better shows me if I am staying up to date with my appointments.

Don’t have to deal with all of the interruptions

The 4-stars are for intuitive guides with instructions to link other calendars.m ensuring I am not missing important meetings. Navigating hey calendar is as with everything. However, I haven’t found how to invite others to meetings.

Okay so I completely understand wanting to build for yourself, not for other platforms. However, it’s pretty limiting to have a calendar app that doesn’t sync with the other major services. I have the same critique of Notion Calendar :/

I’m not impressed with the Hey Calendar yet. I’m confident that it will improve over time but i’m not really sold on using it yet. I’m less willing to use it compared to traditional OS calendar applications. Why is there no Month view for example? That seems obvious. Why is time tracking divorced from events? That seems like lazy design. I sent off a couple of feedback emails about features that feel half-finished and got pretty bland “Hey Mail doesn’t do that” responses. Yeah, I know. That’s what I said. Still waiting for greatness but this ain’t it yet.

Overall, it’s a great app. My favorite part is the “sometimes this week” feature. I didn’t think I’d use it at first, but now I really love it. My only dislike is the inability to write to apple or gmail calendars (especially apple). If the developers could somehow get apple to let them add that functionality, it’d be 5 stars.

I canceled my subscription while planning a trip to a location where internet would be spotty when I got there & while traveling. I feel uncomfortable not knowing if I can access emails related to travel on a plane with no internet. I love HEY but I’ve been stung once and now print emails or save as a PDF. But HEY Calendar schedules might also suffer from this. I literally do not want to test and validate that I’ll need internet to see an itinerary or events in general. This isn’t a feature that hasn’t been implemented, it’s a flaw.

Calendar is getting better and better BUT please add an option for event repeat to occur on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th [insert day of week] of the month. For example, "repeat every 1st Friday of the month." This missing item is my one reason it's not 5 stars.