Good eye. Yes we're thinking about that already. I think when we think about this tool from a community and even family or friends perspective, keeping track of everything you're doing or need to do becomes difficult even if you're living by the calendar. It's because that calendar isn't shared. So I think for us "events" is something we want to find a way to integrate at the core of the experience. That at to-dos, because mostly when you have some event, there's still some level of planning to get done before it.
Sweet! Yeah my partner and I have made a shift to keep our lives in our personal calendars which has been a huge QoL upgrade for us, but it's still so hard to keep track of who in the friend group is available when, as well as keep everyone remembering what's coming up in the next week or so. I feel like this was the biggest value+add of Facebook, but that particular product is now all but unusable :(. Adding shared, event-level to-do lists to a calendar tool would be absolutely KILLER, we just planned a big group camping trip and it was an enormous headache to track who was riding with who, who was bringing food, wood, etc. Having even just one or two simple tools to coordinate all that would have been a lifesaver. Definitely looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
Thanks that's super interesting to hear! I think we sort of share this pain and spent 4-5 months basically riffing about it while working on other ideas. It definitely solves a personal pain and feels like everyone is missing this tool to manage life in a community setting.
AFAIK NextCloud aims to replace something like Google Calendar, but this isn't exactly what I'm after. What I really need is something that replaces FB Events. I want to be able to create a distinct event, with like a page, time, and location where invitees can coordinate stuff, post pictures, etc. I'd then like for these events to be aggregated into a single place, which is the shared group calendar. Self-hosting a replacement for the GSuite would kind of solve this need, people could use Signal for chat and post pictures to NextCloud, but overall seems misaligned with the featureset I'm seeking.
Ah I see, in that case NC probably is a bit of a misfit. There is a plugin named Announcement Center that will do something like that, but I guess it would be a hack:
