Comments on: 37 Signals Release Backpack Calendar

By: trip

trip — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:57:02 +0000

The simple text entry was innovative when 30boxes did it a while ago… to be honest, in both iterations I’d prefer a simple form.

By: Jonathan Buys

Jonathan Buys — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:35:22 +0000

Jason,

Maybe I worded that wrong… What I meant to say was that there was no way to edit your backpack calendar with iCal just yet. The subscribe to and import from functions work great!

By: Derik

Derik — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:04:56 +0000

I dunno. I kinda like being able to access my calendar when I don’t have a net connection.

I don’t see iCal going anywhere.

By: Bob Lee

Bob Lee — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:07:14 +0000

FWIW, Google Calendar supports plain language entry as well. And share calendars. And a full blown atom-based API. And evite-style invites. And Gmail integration.

By: Jason Fried

Jason Fried — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:23:39 +0000

“although no syncing with iCal as of this writing”

Backpack supports the iCalendar standard so you can subscribe and share calendars in the iCalendar format.

http://www.backpackit.com/example_movies/icalshare.mov