"i use a free account on the web literally just for calendar syncing. i enter calendar details through desktop outlook or mobile usually. one of the things to pay attention to is notifications/reminder features and recurrence features."
"If you are going to input through windows, i highly recommend inputting directly through outlook. Full paid-for outlook on windows desktop."
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Desktop - $129 for one puter
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/outlook/cfq7ttc0k7c4?activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtabDownload for free? (trial only)
https://www.lifewire.com/free-outlook-2010-download-1173343Seems to be too much for me for just the ease of 1 puter entry.
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Would the Online free calendar (which is nice, I did not really know it was available.)
https://outlook.live.com/calendar/view/month - when you are signed in,
have many pluses without the Desktop?
Compared to Google or Zoho, including the iPad integration issues.
Maybe it has more overlay flexibility (calendars and/or categories.)
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MLO looks nice, I have an ancient license (again) however it is too task oriented.
I am not a fan of highly structured personal tasks. (In biz, sometimes.)
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And I am moving more towards Protopage combined with Rightnotes. Protopage allows a many column view which is a feature that is incredible. (Like Google Keep, but with lots of extra Herbal Iron). Its big weakness is the lack of a real solid all-points-bulletin search function. I even suggested to them how to do it. However, it is very good on having a master page with a top-down hierarchy (One URL-MultipagePages(Categories)-Tabs within each page-versatile widgets, including RTF and pics.) Moving a bit away from Evernote.
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Synchronizing a calendar to a loud annoying alarm (like Alarmy, but with Calendar thinking months ahead) is still a major search item.
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Right now, I am simply using TheBat! for my contact list. In biz, we might use Hubspot. For awhile I though of an Airtable type online program.
I shoud research the cardav server (Radicale?).