After my yearly one month purchase of a TickTick subscription, I have cancelled it and am back to other timeblocking options around my calendars and Reminders.
I use my iCloud calendar for personal stuff and Google Calendar for work. While setting up Readdle Calendars it came upon me that most of these apps (Calendars, Busycal, Fantastical… almost everyone) already allow you to use “Local Calendars” that one would have religiously configured on all devices for the stock apps, while at the same time allowing you to link your calendars directly (through OAuth2 authentication and authorization in the case of Google Calendar and an iCloud app-specific token for Apple’s iCloud, pretty obsolete)
So when thinking about if I should additionally grant access to Google Calendar to my calendar app instead of using local calendars…
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PROs: I understand that granting the calendaring app direct access to the calendar service of choice perhaps gives it faster sync and tighter integration with some other features (like room reservation, people availability, or conference calls) that may not be possible with local calendars, although I haven’t found any.
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CONs: Setting it up is kind of a hassle, also you have to make sure you deselect local calendars or you will see duplicated events all around, and each time your friendly IT colleagues rotate your company password you have to go and enable it again on all your apps, instead of one place per device if you choose to go with local calendars.
I think I would be leaning towards using “local calendars” just for convenience but wanted to check, what’s the opinion of the MPU hivemind about the best approach? Do you link directly your calendar or do it at the OS level and let the app happily use device “local calendars”? Why?