Calendar integration and support in Postbox

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  mbond replied on January 26, 2009 15:06

  Good call on iCal being mac only. I wasn't thinking cross platform.
  
  However, I think it needs to be an integration with an existing calendar software and not one that is internal to Postbox.
  
  In fact, if post box integrated a calendar, I would likely stop using it unless it hooked into iCal (or sunbird, etc ...). Applications that handle multiple things don't appeal to me. I want my mail application to handle mail exceptionally well, and leave everything else to other applications that handle their thing exceptionally well.
  
  Look at postbox's todo feature as an example. It sucks. It should pass it off to another application (Things, for example, on the mac). Let Things do what it does best, no reason to integrate todo's into your mail application.
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  pnkrkrgeo92 replied on January 19, 2009 19:06

  I think integration, having an addon, or having the ability to sync invites with Google Calendar would be better. That way, you can choose your own features much like Firefox and it's large addon base. You get to "choose your own bloat". I just simply did not want to read an invitation, have to open a browser window and point it to calendar.google.com and sign in and then finally add an event. And if that event date changes, I'd have to redo that entire process. It would be easier to have Postbox sync to my Google calendar after I click "accept" to meeting and appointment invitations.
  
  But of course, I also rely on calendar reminders so this is why I prefer integration or addon to just normal syncing. It is rather easy to forget things when you have 7 classes a day, 5 days a week with hours of homework per night. A calendar is more of a lifesaver right now which is why currently, I still use Thunderbird with Lightning as my default instead of Postbox. I like some Postbox features and that's enough to get me to launch it occasionally but I still find myself going back to Thunderbird. Should Thunderbird 3 integrate the Calendar feature, I may lose interest in Postbox. It may not be the product I am looking for. But since Postbox is Thunderbird based, by using Thunderbird, I am still supporting Postbox in a roundabout way.
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  Marcus replied on January 13, 2009 14:28

  This would be better as a right click action (send event to google cal) or a sidebar option (allowing recognised dates/events to be shown and sent to google cal). I dont like the idea of having a calendar built in personally when you're going to be competing with far better calendar software - I dont mean PB wont have a great calendar if it was implemented I just mean I can get that service elsewhere and that does a great job for me already. I agree with Angie - an email app should do just that (and integrating it with external services is what postbox is doing well so thats where my vote is)
  
  Edit: (just read crux's reply which says what I say here... teach me to post without reading all replies)

   

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  Zach Smith replied on January 13, 2009 05:14

  Yes, I agree that there's quite a bit else to do to enrich the current feature set and interface, instead of adding such a big other component. One compromise might be expanding the content detection to events (like Apple Mail's Data Detectors), which would show up in the sidebar with the other content, and then be passed on to another application that supports standard calendar interfaces.
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  angie replied on January 11, 2009 04:23

  @pnkrkrgeo92: I can certainly see and understand that (though I personally never liked the invitation for meetings or whatever - even when I worked in the "corporate world"). I would just hate for Postbox to become bloated the way I think MS Outlook is. If it's an add-on feature that can be turned on / off, then I say PB should go for it.
  
  @thatonedude: you're welcome.
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  thatonedude replied on January 11, 2009 03:14

  I'd also love to see calendar functionality built-in. I think it's a major bit of functionality missing for a productivity app. Still, this is a *remarkable* program even without it though.

   

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