That said, it's clearly been neglected since the Notion acquisition. IMO it has gotten actively worse/buggier, and the mobile app hasn't seemed to improve at all? I am not hopeful for its stewardship under Notion, given how clunky Notion is. The entire value prop of Cron is the lack of clunk.
I've switched to Amie (amie.co) and been really enjoying it. The aesthetic is a bit overly "playful" for my personal preferences but it's decidedly not-clunky, which is what I care about.
FWIW: Cron and Amie both sit on top of Google Calendar. They're just better frontends. So it's not really an "either-or" type decision.
That was the part I was missing for even considering trying them out. will do now :D
Examples: - When you create an event, it pops over your calendar instead of on the right - You can't easily tab through the event creation process - Not simple to share a list of available times for scheduling with external users - To switch which calendar my event is going on, I have to click to expand, then click to change
Cron (excuse me, Notion Calendar) is just cleaner.
I know there are ways to make a web app act like a desktop app, but I prefer installing an app and being able to jump to it or open it from Command-Space on Mac.
I explored switching away from Cron a few weeks ago because I use Fastmail for personal stuff, and the thing I found myself struggling to live without is the global shortcut for joining the current meeting. It feels silly to say, but I freaking love that feature.
It's a delightful calendar with all the modern keyboard shortcuts including Vim's J/K for previous next and logical shortcuts for everything else (m for month view, w for week view, c for create, etc.).
It's speedy. (Hopefully Notion keeps it that way and doesn't introduce Notion's annoying lag)
They've nailed the details: - meeting participants are easy and logically sorted - you can move an event between calendars and accounts with no hiccups (Apple Calendar used to die on this repeatedly) - they expose just the right amount of information for a calendar invitation in the right order - Title, Time, participants, conferencing, then location - so you can tab through and hit enter when it's done
Conferencing is great - select your app and the meeting is automatically generated and added.
It has Vimcal-like sharing mode where you can block off time and autogenerate either an easy to read list of available times and dates or you can opt to append a link so people can book online and see current availability. I have a couple of quibbles with this implementation - it's hard to add 15 minutes to a selection - but overall it's quite elegant.
The last thing that delights me far more than it should: Command-Shift-J opens your Meet / Zoom / Whathaveyou no matter where you are on your computer.