It’s marginally better than the macOS stock calendar app, but pretty similar. Amongst people I know, windows users who have been used to google’s web calendar are the ones who have gotten most excited about it because having a dedicated calendar app has its advantages.

I find it less useful than the macOS calendar.app because it doesn’t let me view my iCloud calendar which I use for personal events or birthdays from the iCloud contact database.

The ui and interface is pretty snappy, and if notion is bringing on the team to speed up their client software it will be welcome.

Everyone here talking about super fast, but that's one thing I haven't complained about my stock calendar app. Wish there were more screenshots.

It’s if Superhuman made a calendar app to go along with email. It’s super fast and has good keyboard shortcuts, and implements advanced features like sharing availability Calendly-style.

I have to ask because people here keep talking about cron’s speed:

What functionality of a calendar is speed dependent? Genuine ask and not trying to be snarky, speed just hasn’t ever been something I’ve ever had to worry about with a calendar tool so the notion (pun not intended) is merely a foreign to me personally.

Is it opening events? Creating a new calendar item? Syncing, or something else?

Where is the speed gained in from compared to Calendar.app?

If it's anywhere close to the speed of Calendar.app it's super fast compared to Google calendar, maybe that's what people are comparing it with. Remember that the Windows software ecosystem for basic tools is terrible, so maybe its users are the most excited.

Ok but what is being measured? What functions of the calendar app are being proclaimed faster than…?

That’s the thing I’m not growing here and sorry but the answer above doesn’t tell me this

These are all nice features, but hardly deserve the qualification "next generation".

Do you disagree with Coca Cola calling coke “the real thing”, too?

It’s marketing. Read the qualification as “good”, and trust it as much as any marketing.

>Do you disagree with Coca Cola calling coke “the real thing”, too?

Yes.

Yeah, I'm having troubles imagining what could possibly be "next-gen" about a calendar app.