hello everyone and welcome back to the keep productive youtube channel
we are checking out chrome calendar today now cron is currently in early access so this is
going to be a sort of pre-preview i've been using it for the last week and i wanted to
give you a rundown of my experience and how it compares to other applications
in terms of the others that are on the market and the ones that are coming out in the future
so we'll talk about there at the end of the video i'll also share how it works in this video
so you can see in front of me that i have the mac version they also have a windows version in early
access available and i believe they do plan to add a mobile edition in the future however this
application really aims to be the next generation of calendar for teams and individuals and as you
can see it is a very nice looking application to start with one thing i'd have to say is
i'm actually an apple calendar user at the moment but i think what this calendar does really nicely
is it keeps a very plain and simple look and one of the things that a lot of people have
been saying they like in this application is the menu bar the command bar that allows you to open
up and you can see and make commands from here including creating an event and more details now
across the last week i did get the opportunity to create events to share availability and also just
experiment with this application in a little bit of detail and although i didn't go to i guess full
extremities i did really like how this application works so in order to create an event you go and
drag on the screen and as you can see on this right hand side it appears with the details and
the time and what i really liked is how slim and simple this is sometimes filling out all of the
information that's on say google calendar is a bit too much information but i really like how they've
really narrowed this down you can also add your conferencing so i've created a couple of google
meets across a week this one in particular i created a google meet with and what it's nice
as well in the top right corner much like many of the other calendar apps you can join the google me
link over here which is really cool so one of the other things that you can do is share availability
and to share availability you can press s and you basically choose the time that you want
for example you peg some time out in your calendar that you think is available and it
will temporarily keep it as busy and a scheduling link is created here's one i created earlier and
as you can see what's nice is you can either copy and paste this into email or just solely send this
link and let's show you what this link looked like so what's really nice is you can naturally
much like calendarly in the other applications you can scroll through and choose the time and
date that is best suited for you so that's one of the features i think is really nice inside of cron
having the schedule availability inside of the application in one and something that i
quite liked inside of woven at the same time so being able to manage my calendar all in one
now i would say i'm a little bit different because i've come from apple calendar after
dropping woven so my experience is not necessarily needing more advanced complexity and i think the
design is really attractive with this however one thing i'll say is if you directly compare this to
an application like fantastical 3 i would say that fantastic f3 definitely takes it a step further
in terms of how they've designed the application in terms of complexity and the features in terms
of being able to get more in-depth features without compromising their design i think
if you put a head-to-head comparison although this one doesn't currently have a pricing setup
i think that you'd have to say fantastical it does take it however it's still early days this
is early access for chron and i've seen by their change log that they actually added month view
which is quite fast to be able to add editions and uh things like that now one of the things i
quite liked about the setup was actually having the weekends off and on and the week numbers on
but i also like the numbers of days views now for example if i wanted to see a three-day view
i could quickly scroll to that and as you can see i can see three days worth of my tarp my calendar
events which is really nice and as you can see it links with the majority of my other calendars
that i've connected up with other applications now overall the design was really impressive when
using this application coming from apple calendar it is a slight upgrade in terms of things like the
fonts things like the colors and things like the ui however it did follow a very similar scheme
in terms of what it looks like now as i said i would probably say that fantastical is a better
all-round option but we're yet to see the pricing for cron and we're yet to see this application
fully flourish in my opinion it's really against the other applications that i'd have to make sure
that this is something that will stand up against them so in the next year we're
going to see a flurry of new calendar applications applications like rise applications like daybridge
magical they're all trying to compete in a range of different ways one's with the team markets ones
with the individuals markets and at the same time they're going to come and go up against some big
competition and some of these applications already have key sort of differentiators uh in comparison
with for example cron so for example like with mayday at the moment which is going to be released
they have a focus feature in helping you to channel your time and plan i guess more and time
orientated you also have daybridge which is more of a social calendar which connects to your for
example your flight information your email and it will be a bit more of a sort of collective sunrise
like experience in bringing all your calendars together and finally you have things like magical
which is much more of a teams note taker calendar application but really trying to reduce the amount
of meetings you have so whilst this is a really beautiful application it's much more at the moment
like an apple calendar alternative then versus its own key differentiators compared to these
other applications and as i said it's early days with this application but i definitely love the
design i definitely like how easy it is to use and at the moment it is currently my default calendar
as i'm using apple calendar i'll probably replace it with chrome because the experiences
are not that different and it's nice to have the availability and scheduling function as well as
some of the great abilities in creating events and being able to see these different views as well
so there are my very early thoughts on kron let me know what you think in description below i think
there was a great quote or message from one of the community frank who regularly reviews these sort
of applications and he did say he was slightly underwhelmed with kron and i do understand what
he means in comparison with an application like fantastical and some of these ones that are coming
in the future but i do hold out hope for this application to the extent that i think it will be
and have a place in the market in one productivity app of the year award and that doesn't go without
saying you know and being able to be on windows straight away is a huge win for them so i think
over the next couple of weeks we'll be keeping our close eye on kron and i'll be using it to really
get a better understanding of the application and how it grows in the future anyway folks please do
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and i'll talk to you all in the future hopefully i'll see you very soon and have a great week ahead
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