Context: was looking for a decent service to give me a calendar a little while back but one thing that kept stopping me is there seems to be absolutely no service that just offers you a nice calendar, its only email services that happen to offer a calendar on the side.
I don’t want another email. I have enough, and my current one is tied down to gmail (but I’d prefer if my calendar wasn’t).
I’m sure there must a historical reason for this, but also why is does it still persevere?
One is a scheduling and time management thing, the other a communication system. I don’t need to sign up for a messaging app to have a todo list.
The two aren’t even well integrated smh.
You can just use the Calendar apps on your phone and/or laptop. Etar is a good option for Android.
If you want synchronisation, you will either have to set up a calDAV based server yourself, or use someone else’s. I use Nextcloud, and it synchronises many things, like calendar, contacts, tasks etc., using DAV protocol.
There are some public Nextcloud servers with server-side encryption that you can go for. Setting up your Nextcloud just for calender would be overkill. You may want to take a look at some awesome-selfhosted list, if you are into self-hosting.