It's very irritating to switch back anf forth between these two apps. i would like to have a view on calendar and mail in parallel.

It works on iOS so why not on Apple OS?

Yes please - so annoying having to close one to view the other

Please, can somebody from Proton explain, why they find it important to combine both functions in one app?

I get really easily stressed out/distracted when I see my email inbox every time I want to check my calendar. Even just adding a setting to open the calendar view as default instead of mail would work for me, or separate apps to open each view too

New user here - regarding desktop apps:
I don't understand the choice of having the calendar, contacts and mail bundled together like they are. As a standard I have my mailclient open on one screen and my calendar open on another screen. This helps me to easily create new events in my calendar, because I can easily see my mail with the information at the same time. Right now it is a mouse clicking game which is terrible un-ergonomic and to put it simply a pain in the a..! I apoligize, but sometimes profanity helps to enhance the point.
I am a new user, for a couple of weeks now. I wanted to get away from google.
And I already love your Proton Pass and Proton VPN apps. But with mail, contacts and calendar you have some ways to go. With the money I am paying I expect you to do better than google. Safety is one thing, but if you can't match what I need for productivity I am finding another ecosystem to invest in.

It would be great if Mail and Calendar were separate apps. I often work in the Mail programme and need to transfer data from an email to the calendar. But the current Mail & Calendar app only allows me to switch back and forth. It would be very helpful to at least decouple the calendar from the Mail window. At the moment, I have to copy things from Mail into Apple Notes and then transfer them to the calendar. That can't really be good for security either.

Multiple windows (both emails and calendar)

When using ProtonMail, I want to be able to:
- Open a specific email in a new (secondary) window, So that I can read that email and type in a new email in a different window.
- Open the calendar in a new (secondary) window, So that I can look at my calender while processing emails.
- Open multiple emails in one window each.
- Open multiple calendar views in one window each.

All this is possible in the WEB version, but I need to use the full search feature of the local installed ProtonMail client.

PLEASE provide a feature where you can look at the calendar at the same time as still viewing emails. Often information on dates and logistics are in the bodies of emails and I need to refer back-and-forth between my calendar and emails but currently I have to close the email then open the calendar and then close the calendar and go back to the email again and again and it's really frustrating. Thank you

Come on Proton, please do this! :)

I wholeheartedly agree!

On desktop, I need to be able to look at an email and my calendar at the same time so that I can schedule calendar events based on email replies. Currently I can use two different browser tabs, but I would prefer to use the dedicated desktop app, especially because I have a thousand other browser tabs open.

Yes yes yes yes yes! Please !!!! Separate!

Please do, so on macOS you can actually replace the Apple native calendar app.

Or, if not separate apps, at least the option to open a different window?

I would like to be able to have my mail and my calendar open next to eachother.

A different app or just 2 tabs like a browers in the Mail app.
As longs as you can see an e-mail parallel to you calendar.
If I make a calendar appointment and I need to put in info from an e-mail I now have to switch between them each time.. Not very handy or user friendly

I agree with the sentiment of this request 100%, although I'm not sure about the specifics like what "different apps" entails.

On the other hand, I agree 10^100% with the implementation recommended by @frealek (does @ mentioning even work here?), from start to finish!

I don't want to shard this feature idea since it date backs to early '24 and has accrued so many votes, but I feel a restatement of this feature with the title "Launch Desktop Mail & Calendar in separate windows" or something to that effect would be helpful. I'm no expert on Electron, but seems this is done with the `BrowserWindow` class:

https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/browser-window

That class is only being used once with a call to `createBrowserWindow()` during startup, but seems plausible that a similar call could be done within the `openMail()` and `openCalendar()` functions, with a bit of indirection to sort out which is currently running, focused, etc:

https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/blob/190983a5b1b2fef5ac6302986675b2ffe00e25f2/applications/inbox-desktop/src/utils/view/viewManagement.ts#L357-L400

The locking stuff frealek mentions seems like it should go hand-in-hand with that approach, and w/o much fuss, as far as I can tell.

A separate feature idea/request, highlighting that option to use a separate window + locks (as opposed to different apps), seems like a much better way to garner support from other users, with a clear trajectory for devs to follow if it does indeed get that support.

Does someone want to open it or should I?

I agree that the ability to have Mail and Calendar open in two separate windows would be a welcome feature! Be it two standalone apps or one app with multiple windows.

Also, I would like to be able to make at least the Calendar window way smaller, so I can put it on the side of my task manager in Day view.

Being able to have the email and calendar open at the same time side-by-side or in different windows would be very important to me. I often have to add new events in my calendar based on emails I've received. Having to go back and forth between the two is very annoying and time consuming.