Shared calendar as default
My spouse and I use one shared calendar (currently on iCloud). It is a shared family calendar that we both have set as the default calendar for new appointments.
In Proton Calendar you can share a calendar and edit the shared calendar, but you can't set that shared calendar as your default. Big miss for us and a reason not to switch to Proton Calendar yet.
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nichu42 commented
That's exactly what keeps me / us from moving to Proton.
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Hugo commented
Same issue :)
Recently moved over to Proton and dragged my husband along with me.
We've shared a calendar for years--needless to say, we share our schedule and plans 99.9% of the time.
It's caused a fair bit of annoyance that he cannot simply use our calendar as default.
This seems like a bit of an oversight on Proton's part, given that the Family plan is pretty much ideal and implies families have generally been considered.
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Em commented
I have the exact same issue with my spouse and anyone else I try to bring over to proton.
Noone is going to go through 3+ extra clicks for every event they schedule while out and about just to make sure something is saved to the correct calendar.
I very nearly had my spouse convinced on this service, but now that half their events are on a calender I can't see and they can't share, the whole idea of us having a shared calendar is basically not practical at all.
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Em commented
Currently, sharing calenders is a premium feature. This seems fine at face value but creates critical issues with onboarding friends/family members to proton calendar.
The issue is thus:
I can have them make an account and share my calender with them.
Great, they can see my schedule now.
They use the app to schedule an event, it defaults to their only private calendar that they can't remove. I can't see this or plan around it, they also cannot share it without premium.The additional clicks for a new user to change the calander they are saving an event to (every single time they make any individual event) makes protoncalendar very confusing for new users that might not be tech savvy. This completely eliminates any point to persuading others to use the service as it's not easy to organise multiple peoples schedules together in one calendar.
Suggestion: Allow free users to set a paid user's shared calendar as their default calender for new events.