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There was a thread this week about calendars, and it made me miss the unified calendar that webOS gave us. I'm excited (and slightly paranoid) to see this now, and can't wait to play with it! I wonder if I still have my old Pre lying around anywhere, and if it still boots. I love my iPhone, but I sure loved that Pre when it was new.

As a random second anecdote, I really miss the hacker community around it. I can't remember the name of the forum, but there was a super active thread the day we got root on the device, and it was unbelievably cool to see some Palm employees show up in it and pointing folks in the right direction. Such a fun device.

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FWIW you can have a unified calendar today with Google Calendar. Ever since the Sunrise Calendar app [1] was discontinued, I switched to a workflow where I have everything centralized in my personal Google Calendar. How it works:

  * I have a personal gmail account with my events and apointments.
  * Shared a URL from my work calendar (it helps that they use google workspace), and added that to my personal calendar. Especially useful if you don't want to add a work profile in your personal device. Personally the work calendar is all I need to check on my phone when I'm not on my work laptop.
  * Added the Facebook Events calendar URL.
  * Added the Songkick Events calendar URL for keeping track of concert dates.
  * You can also subcribe to anything else you need, e.g. TV shows feed, Garmin's calendar feed, Formula One or other sports' calendars, holidays calendar...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_Calendar

I thought FB no longer let you share your personal events calendar? I know I used to have mine shared to Google Calendar a long time ago but haven’t looked into it since it stopped working.

It seems to work now. Perhaps you need to get an updated URL.

Probably forums.webosnation.com -- its still there, although its slowed down a lot. The last of us diehard users are on Discord now: webosarchive.com/discord

It was originally called PreCentral :)

> it made me miss the unified calendar that webOS gave us

What did it do that CalDAV doesn't permit?

webOS had something called "Synergy" which was essentially a set of databases/schemas/services to provide a unified view on things. I don't fully remember whether this was actually supported, but an app like Facebook could have "its" calendar events (birthdays, events, etc.) stored in one of these and they would seamlessly show up in the main calendar app, without additional setup or sync required. Same held for messaging (SMS, gtalk, Facebook, all in the one app) and probably a few other things.

It wasn't competing with CalDAV, so there is no answer to this question. What it did was present multiple sources, like CalDAV, in a single view.

I never saw webOS's calendar. I'm familiar with CalDAV. Was trying to understand what made it memorably fun to you.

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