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Re:Ask HN: I Think I Need a New Calendar App by CharlieDigital on Thursday June 22, 2023 @07:00AM (#36430316)
Motion (YC W20) is what you are looking for.

https://usemotion.com

    - Connect multiple calendars which have fixed events ("Pick up Hana at 7PM")
    - Add tasks which are automatically rescheduled and rearranged around this fixed events ("Call mom and check in")
    - Create booking links to let others schedule time.  The interface for this is way better than Calendly
Disclaimer: I worked there for a bit.
Re:Ask HN: I Think I Need a New Calendar App by iamdamian on Thursday June 22, 2023 @08:05AM (#36430852)
From their privacy page:

  > How we use your information [...]
  > - Training and developing machine learning algorithms, and identification of industry trends and developments, and anonymous benchmarking
  > We may aggregate, de-deidentify, and/or anonymize any information collected through the Service so that such information is no longer reasonably capable of being associated with you.
  > We may use aggregated or anonymized information for any purpose, including research and marketing purposes, and we may also share such information for any purpose with any third parties, at our discretion.
I think I'll pass.
Re:Ask HN: I Think I Need a New Calendar App by skrblr on Thursday June 22, 2023 @08:21AM (#36431027)
Huh... I know about deidentifying, but what does it mean to de-deidentify?
Re:Ask HN: I Think I Need a New Calendar App by shishy on Thursday June 22, 2023 @01:38PM (#36435837)
it means there was a typo
Re:Ask HN: I Think I Need a New Calendar App by iamdamian on Thursday June 22, 2023 @06:52PM (#36440306)
It makes you think, how much effort have they really put into this policy?
Re:Ask HN: I Think I Need a New Calendar App by jklein11 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @09:21PM (#36441603)
Yeah - if you didn't have a lawyer take a look at the policy, what was the point of even putting the policy up there? and if you did have a lawyer look at it and they didn't catch it - get rid of that lawyer lol
Re:Ask HN: I Think I Need a New Calendar App by CharlieDigital on Thursday June 22, 2023 @08:51AM (#36431365)
I don't think you'll find a service like this without similar terms/policies, unfortunately.

To make the backend work with the auto-scheduling requires that the system knows some personalized heuristics on how to move tasks around. And for that to work means that it'll need to aggregate that data.

Re:Ask HN: I Think I Need a New Calendar App by iamdamian on Thursday June 22, 2023 @08:59AM (#36431455)
I’m wondering, is on-device processing not in the realm of possibility for this space?
Re:Ask HN: I Think I Need a New Calendar App by ukoki on Thursday June 22, 2023 @09:54AM (#36432211)
Looks very interesting but I would not try something without standard email + password sign up
Re:Ask HN: I Think I Need a New Calendar App by d--b on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:11AM (#36432449)
I went one step further but "enter your card number to start your 7-day free trial period" did it...