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Re:Show HN: Emery – Personal productivity workspace by tiffanyh on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @12:19AM (#32315039)
Lovely design & product.

Suggestion: answer the question “how is this different from just using your normal calendar” to plan your day. Because lots of calendars have ToDo / Tasks functionality, and you can simply block out time on your main calendar - instead of using this app.

EDIT: also, I see lots of reference how not using this app is harder because “No overview. It's all scattered across multiple apps”. Is that really a problem? I use 2 emails (1 work, 1 personal); however, I only maintain 1 calendar / todo (my work calendar). It seems like introducing a new app is introducing something that will cause more scatter (as opposed to my current setup today).

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Re:Show HN: Emery – Personal productivity workspace by vladvasiliu on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:09AM (#32316231)
I think the main thing comes from this point:

> however, I only maintain 1 calendar / todo (my work calendar).

What I've found, personally, is that having multiple e-mails is fine. I don't need to check them every five minutes anyway. But I don't want to have my work anything on my personal phone (because I don't want it remotely managed), nor my personal stuff on my work email (say I need to schedule an interview for a new job).

I'm sure quite a lot of people are in the same situation.

My personal best experience was when I was using a personal mac for work, and I could have all my calendars combined in basic macOS calendar app, and emails in the mail app. Everything worked so well, and it's something I miss terribly since I've moved to Linux.

Re:Show HN: Emery – Personal productivity workspace by chernobai on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @03:56AM (#32316166)
Thanks for all the suggestions!

One thing that makes Emery different from normal calendars is that you can group things together with collections. For example, you can add project-related tasks, meetings and notes in one collection. Or group together tasks, meetings and notes that relate to your boss, a peer, a direct report.