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In which Mac-centric guy writes about all the things he wants from a free calendaring solution after complaining that free solutions are bad and without noticing that Google calendar does many of these advanced kinds of things like setting times when invites can be automatically rejected, shared event setting on one calendar etc.

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After actually documenting his suggestions, only 1 out of 7 concrete suggests are not currently available in Google Calendar. His suggestions, in order:

1) Show only the current day and future days -- Google Calendar does this

2) Can't see when other people are busy or free -- Google Calendar does this (if that person has shared their calendar)

3) Can't see when a group of people have common free time -- Google Calendar does this

4) Get an autoresponse if you invite someone when they are not free -- this is mooted by 2) and 3)

5) Jointed owned calendars -- Google Calendar does this (can give people edit permissions on your calendars)

6) Autoreject invites based on time -- Google Calendar does this

7) Location aware -- OK, gCal doesn't do this.

And the best part? Google Calendars can be synced with OSX/iOS Calendar apps so they can be available offline.

Actually #7 works. When I travel to a new timezone and log in to gCal, it asks me if I want to change my timezone to the newly detected one. Pretty nice :D

This is why HN desperately needs downvote for articles.

Not to disagree with you, but the fact is sometimes I "upvote" an article because it's also the way to save the story and I've liked some comments a lot, even if the referenced article is bad.

He literally says:

As we all know this comes down to money, who wants to pay $50 for a good calendar app? I know I would...

http://min.us/mvk23DG

Irony? Or makes perfect sense.

agree also many of the 'enhancements' he likes would be profoundly annoying, for example bugging you about creating multiple events in locations where it isn't feasible to travel between them according to his assumptions about the nature of the meeting, transportation options, etc.

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