<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gumby</author><text>I think you have it slightly backwards (or should).&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s an open standard, icalendar (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;icalendar.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;icalendar.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) which represents calendar entries.  Invitations you get in the mail come this format too.  The easiest way for your map, address book, reminders etc to integrate is just to talk to your calendar server.  The apps need not know about each other at all.&lt;p&gt;Google and microsoft of course may do some non-standard futzing around within their proprietary stacks: you can often see these problems when you try to connect to something outside their silos, though in my experience the standards integration in google calendaring is pretty good (especially when compared to their mail system).  It&amp;#x27;s been a few years since I had to interface with Exchange calendaring but back then it...wasn&amp;#x27;t good.&lt;p&gt;So in any case there&amp;#x27;s no reason you couldn&amp;#x27;t write a small service that spoke ical over the network and this plain text calendar&amp;#x27;s format locally.  Then it would appear normally in your partner&amp;#x27;s iphone, handle your kids&amp;#x27; schools&amp;#x27; calendars etc.&lt;p&gt;Whether it would be &lt;i&gt;worth&lt;/i&gt; doing that is literally an exercise for the reader...but you&amp;#x27;d get the same level of integration as you would with, say, Apple&amp;#x27;s icloud calendar services.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stimpson_j_cat</author><text>Calendar apps are so complicated and tightly integrated with other productivity apps now I&amp;#x27;m not sure the benefit of simplicity here outweighs the cost of losing that.&lt;p&gt;My Google cal emails me notifications, works with desktop calendar apps, integrates with Maps, etc. It autofills addresses, adjusts for time zones, syncs across my 4000 devices, allows me to edits dates via text input or GUI&amp;#x2F;drag &amp;#x27;n drop, etc. (Not shilling, Apple cal is probably similar.)&lt;p&gt;Even my todo list went from org mode to Google Tasks because of the integrations with Android, Google Calendar, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Plain Text Calendar</title><url>https://terokarvinen.com/2021/calendar-txt/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tedmiston</author><text>&amp;gt; Calendar apps are so complicated and tightly integrated with other productivity apps now I&amp;#x27;m not sure the benefit of simplicity here outweighs the cost of losing that.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been looking for something like this that will let me edit in plaintext but also sync both ways with gCal for the benefits of plaintext but also the caveats that you mentioned.</text><parent_chain><item><author>stimpson_j_cat</author><text>Calendar apps are so complicated and tightly integrated with other productivity apps now I&amp;#x27;m not sure the benefit of simplicity here outweighs the cost of losing that.&lt;p&gt;My Google cal emails me notifications, works with desktop calendar apps, integrates with Maps, etc. It autofills addresses, adjusts for time zones, syncs across my 4000 devices, allows me to edits dates via text input or GUI&amp;#x2F;drag &amp;#x27;n drop, etc. (Not shilling, Apple cal is probably similar.)&lt;p&gt;Even my todo list went from org mode to Google Tasks because of the integrations with Android, Google Calendar, etc.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Plain Text Calendar</title><url>https://terokarvinen.com/2021/calendar-txt/</url></story>