New dark icons?!
Get us some well-wanted dark app icons and please oh please remove the black background in the light theme!! Act soon 37signals 😊
Left Google Workspace for Hey
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.
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Left Google Workspace for Hey
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.
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.
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Half-Done Features, & Little Support
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.
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Innovative thinking again!
UPDATE #2: sadly for this update I had to knock a star off. We still don’t have 2-way integration or syncing and we still don’t a good location set where we can view maps and set travel times etc. I wanted to replace the outdated Apple option but I use locations and travel times all the time so for me the Hey calendar still lacks the functionality I would personally want. For me it’s still not a viable replacement for Apple calendar. There are also a few issues with ics files and invites syncing but the developers have been great in supporting my queries. Just not there yet for me ! UPDATE : really poor and slow syncing issues are the big let down for this app, so disappointing all worked well until I went to link my Apple calendar so, so slow to sync events across so updated my review. It needs a few other things sorting like map integration for event locations and the back background on the week view is not in tune with the rest of the app. Most important is the ability to read and write to other calendars. All being said a great calendar to go with best email out there
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Response from developer
Sorry for that trouble with the sync times! Can you drop our team an email? We'd be happy to take a look at what's happening there. ✉️ support@hey.com
Not ready to replace iCloud
I rely on iCloud and have for many years, for not only my own calendars, but my families, calendars, which we share four of them. In order for this application to be considered by me as a full replacement, the following issues that I have at minimum will need to be addressed:
- offline support. That’s the bad side of having an electron web app is I can’t even create or modify entries while off-line, I just get an error that the Internet is down and to retry. Bad. I would like to be able to use full functionality without synchronization until my connection comes back, then make all the changes.
- recurring meetings. I am very limited in this regard, and I cannot create a meeting for say, the third Thursday of every month. The odd thing is when I imported .ics events from my iCloud calendars that had those recurred times, they did come over, but they are not edible, so it is possible it’s just not implemented.
- Integration with Apple Watch. This is a complete non-starter for me without a complication and application.
- Overall some nice ideas, but needs a lot of work.
- offline support. That’s the bad side of having an electron web app is I can’t even create or modify entries while off-line, I just get an error that the Internet is down and to retry. Bad. I would like to be able to use full functionality without synchronization until my connection comes back, then make all the changes.
- recurring meetings. I am very limited in this regard, and I cannot create a meeting for say, the third Thursday of every month. The odd thing is when I imported .ics events from my iCloud calendars that had those recurred times, they did come over, but they are not edible, so it is possible it’s just not implemented.
- Integration with Apple Watch. This is a complete non-starter for me without a complication and application.
- Overall some nice ideas, but needs a lot of work.
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Can’t edit calendars
How is it possible to release a calendar app that isn’t able to edit calendar events from non-app-based existing calendars? This is a wild lack of functionality that I don’t think I’ve ever seen from a calendar app and essentially makes this a useless product for anyone on the google workspace, Apple calendar, or other provider’s email services looking for an all-in-one manager. Really disappointing and unusable until this major feature hole is addressed.
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Using as my primary calendar
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.
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.
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Good start
I like the methodology behind it. But it feels a little slow. Not sure why. Feels like I’m clicking “on” things instead of interacting with the things themselves. Just enough to make me want to use the stock calendar.
Also—and maybe more importantly—no caldav support. Once that’s there, it’ll be easier to spend more time with it as a daily tool.
Again, great start.
Also—and maybe more importantly—no caldav support. Once that’s there, it’ll be easier to spend more time with it as a daily tool.
Again, great start.
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Great on its own terms
Lots to praise about this app, in fact, most of it is praise worthy! Great design, good UI and UX, but it falls flat on integration between the email and calendar.
As a Hey Email user, I was so excited to finally have a calendar to go along with the email. The dev makes a big deal of having their own servers and control of the information, but their services still misses basic date related emails that google workspace captures easily, like flights and trains or classes. Moreover, the calendar doesn’t search through locations on a map service to match and enrich location input in the events. And lastly, because the calendar account doesn’t work at all with other apps and calendar links don’t open directly in Hey Calendar on iPhone, I have to manually recreate calendar events I receive from event companies that offer a ‘download for other calendar’ button on their confirmation screens.
If I could use a workaround, like adding calendar events through Apple calendar quickly due to easy integration with iPhone, that would solve it for now.
I find this app and this side of the Hey service creates more friction, not less, in my personal calendar. And it walls it off needlessly from my work calendars. It asks more of a user, not less. Not sure that’s a good direction, when Hey Email asks less of users than other emails and is rightly praised for that.
Hope it can improve in the future because I’m a huge Hey Email fan.
As a Hey Email user, I was so excited to finally have a calendar to go along with the email. The dev makes a big deal of having their own servers and control of the information, but their services still misses basic date related emails that google workspace captures easily, like flights and trains or classes. Moreover, the calendar doesn’t search through locations on a map service to match and enrich location input in the events. And lastly, because the calendar account doesn’t work at all with other apps and calendar links don’t open directly in Hey Calendar on iPhone, I have to manually recreate calendar events I receive from event companies that offer a ‘download for other calendar’ button on their confirmation screens.
If I could use a workaround, like adding calendar events through Apple calendar quickly due to easy integration with iPhone, that would solve it for now.
I find this app and this side of the Hey service creates more friction, not less, in my personal calendar. And it walls it off needlessly from my work calendars. It asks more of a user, not less. Not sure that’s a good direction, when Hey Email asks less of users than other emails and is rightly praised for that.
Hope it can improve in the future because I’m a huge Hey Email fan.
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