It's not enough for your calendar to only work locally: at the very least, it needs to sync with your phone. There should be optional notifications when an event is about to start. Ideally this should be possible using only keyboard shortcuts. Adding appointments should be as quick and as simple as possible. For some, this will mean a week view for others, it's an agenda of the day's appointments-the best apps offer flexibility. You should be able to open your calendar and see what needs doing, whatever that means to you. Sticking a web app in a desktop window isn't good enough-the best Windows calendar apps feel like they belong in Windows and offer native features like keyboard shortcuts. In my experience, the best Windows calendar apps do all the following things: I write about productivity professionally and have been using desktop calendar apps for decades. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.Īnyone can access Google Calendar from a browser desktop apps are for someone who wants more than that. We're never paid for placement in our articles from any app or for links to any site-we value the trust readers put in us to offer authentic evaluations of the categories and apps we review.

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