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Google Calendar isn't the only game in town.
There are a handful of options that blow Google's away.
These calendars offer more features and better UIs.
My calendar is an important tool to help keep me organized, and the busier I get, the more I depend on it. For as long as I can remember, Google Calendar has been my go-to for this function, but over the past year, I've been looking for an alternative to help wean me off Google apps.
That goes for the Calendar.
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It's not that I have anything against Google's Calendar app; it's just that Google has such a crush on AI that I'm afraid any piece of data I enter into any Google app will be used to help train their LLMs (or create profiles of me).
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