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Tasks and Calendar and CalDAV... why not? (feddit.uk)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does anyone know why there's no desire to see a working standard (protocol) for calendar/tasks?

It's clear that CalDAV doesn't function consistently across devices (and does seem to be dying as a standard). If you work across different devices/OS it's virtually impossible to get things set up seamlessly. Companies and developers of task apps seem happy to create silos and not look at interoperability.

If you want to self-host, it's too hard to do this and you really are limited to a tiny number of options.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Guess I was always using the right combination of apps. Never had any problems with CalDAV and CardDAV. Except for frustration at outright missing support.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What apps are you using?

Also using caldav and I'm missing a decent macos client and/or web facing client I can self host for tasks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Nextcloud as the server and DAVx⁵ with Fossify Calendar as the client on my phone. On my laptop Kontact, but I haven't looked at that in ages, so it could be in shambles for all I know. I think I've also used Thunderbird with some plugin.

And my Fritzbox router uses CardDAV to populate the phonebook of all connected phones.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Thunderbird doesn't even need a plugin. Just "add new calendar" > "on the network" > enter the URL. Done.

Same for contacts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

BusyCal as a macOS client and baikal as a server.

Those two are reliable as can be. BusyCal is a great app with a responsive developer and can connect to virtually anything.

As to the topic of this post, despite the above, I’m trying to move away from CalDAV and CardDAV, the latter has poor support on most mobile platforms in the way I want to use it. I also am trying to reduce self hosted platforms I maintain, which is currently a high number.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago

You are probably the exception rather than the rule. Nextcloud, in my experience, is the only one that seems to work fairly well. Just look at the Issues on Github for apps that try to use CalDAV.