1) none seem to handle multiple calendars well. I have a personal calendar, a work calendar, and a side project calendar, I want them all to be independent, have tasks blocked out on them, etc, but still be aware of each other. So for example, I want to schedule a doctor’s appointment on my personal and have my other calendars mirror that time block, but scrub the details/make it generic. Super specific idea obviously, but if I don’t have it I have so much manual overhead aligning everything that I just give up and do it by hand.
2) they are all dogshit slow (not sure about this one, haven’t tried it). The combo of electron apps and what I guess is just calendar synchronization latency makes them have surprise ux patterns and overall just shitty experience in general.
A third thing is that I really enjoy planning my life with a kanban, and executing my day from a todo list (scheduled). That’s hard to nail.
Last: my notes live separately (as most people’s do I’ve seen anecdotally).
I hope someone can really succeed in this space because time blocking is so powerful, but nothing has fit my lifestyle quite right yet unfortunately.
* features People say that “you can just add a plug-in” for whatever, and that’s true. But so many things that should be core are not (advanced custom fields, forms) and other features have no place in modern WordPress (comments). Gutenberg is an incomplete answer to page builders. While the page builders are impressive, they still have a pretty substantial learning curve.
* cost I’ve been using WordPress for over a decade and it’s fallen woefully behind other CMS’s. Recently I spun up a site for a client and the plug-ins cost over $1000 just to get them going. That isn’t _WordPress’s_ fault, but it doesn’t help.
* speed WordPress inexplicably gets slow after about a year unless it’s managed by someone with masters-degree level skill. It’s like the system gets tired. The caching plug-ins help, but why doesn’t WordPress offer better caching itself?
* deploying Recently, I decided I’d had enough. I was doing a one-day build for a small marketing site and it took two hours to deploy because the “yoast” plug-in broke the WP CLI’s ability to search and replace the database for URL’s. Not to mention that source control is a nightmare because people can install their own plug-ins from the dashboard.
I’m writing an open source visual page builder for Laravel. It fixes the problems I see with WordPress for building marketing sites. Think of it as a blend between the visual ease of Webflow and the programmatic power of Laravel. By default, it’ll run off of SQLite (but any sql db will work), so they’re awe only two things living outside source control - the SQLite database and the uploads folder. That makes managing transitions from dev to production an absolute breeze.
I’m very excited about it! It should be ready for beta testing in a few weeks…if anyone wants to give it a shot, let me know.