When I get the time I want to port my timeblocking calendar (viscal) to egui + nostr (nip52). The standard calendar sync protocol CalDAV is a truly awful.
Syncing calendar events to nostr would be much more pleasant and easier to work with. Can't wait to see more nostr calendar software.
Are you following the discussion of relays getting too big and too costly and thus shutting down?
It seems inevitable to me that relays will eventually only keep 30 days of events per user (even that would be 12TB per day if Nostr had Twitter scale, so even that is not feasible for anyone but industrial relay operators).
So it would seem that Nostr is not suitable for apps where events should be stored reliably for a long time.
i think you’re conflating nostr with public relays. You can just pay a relay to store your notes long term, run your own local relay for backup. Not to mention any damus client has a copy of all your data, which could be backed up to the cloud or synced to other damus clients between your devices
Do nostr calendars still use the iCalendar format?
no
it seems that will kill all network effects with existing calendar software 😕
You could easily convert between formats. Generate ical from notes, and vice versa
Definitely. I guess what I'm wondering is what advantages a nostr-specific cal format gives us. e.g. starting from scratch has meant we don't get recurring events right away (something iCalendar already supports): https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/52.md#recurring-calendar-events
Easier to read and write calendar data. It’s extremely painful to run a calendar server and get it to work between apple and google devices. Also having data in nostr so i can easily sync and display my timeblocks and calendar events between all my nostr apps
