This week we’ll be attending the Web Summit in Dublin, Ireland. Let’s meet up if you’re there as well and want to discuss calendars…or if you just want to grab a Guiness! Tweet us @SchedJoules or send an email to wilfred@schedjoules.com.

We will be attending the CalConnect Conference in Palo Alto, California from January 11-15 2016. Come join us!

Dying of a brain tumour, Frederik van den Broek had one last wish on his “bucket list”: serving as his own guinea pig to build a smartphone app for fellow cancer patients. Now doctors say the input from Van den Broek, who died late last month, has been invaluable in creating what is believed will be the world’s most advanced mobile-based app for cancer patients.

It’s not only these little clock faces that are the interesting take of CloudCal, though. The app is quick, efficient, and syncs with Google Calendar, Google Tasks, Exchange, Outlook, or hundreds of public calendars in the Pro version. 

Invite is designed to overcome the biggest obstacle when scheduling meetings—not being able to see the calendars of attendees outside your organization. As a result, your proposed meeting can be repeatedly declined until you find a time that works. Invite simplifies this by letting organizers suggest multiple times that work for them and attendees can pick from those suggestions. Invite also shows everyone what times other people have said are good for them. Invite is available for iPhones in the U.S. and Canada, and coming soon to Windows Phone and Android phones. The app works best for people with Office 365 business and school subscriptions, but also works great with any email—Outlook.com, Gmail and Yahoo Mail included.

The new mobile app, Easy Taxi for Outlook enable users to request a taxi within their Outlook email account.

Never miss an event or deadline again with these five organizational apps. Take your calendar with you everywhere.

Just released in the App Store. Calvin is a collaborative planning tool to: 1) help store ideas of plans people want to do 2) help find the best times to do them 3) get confirmed events in a calendar.

(In Dutch) WAVE Calendar now let’s you hire a professional PA to do all kinds of things for you, right within your calendar.   

DigiCal received a major update which brings a lot of changes to the user interface, completely overhauling all of its calendar views to Material Design, adding a new navigation drawer along with new Material Design cards in the edit and view event screens.

The whole Readdle productivity suite got a massive update for iOS 9 with great features such as multitasking, split view and Spotlight search.

Pocket Informant for OS X Milestone 6 was released. This is a major update that includes support for El Capitan, a brand new Stacked Week View, as well as over a hundred improvements.

Google Calendar adds illustrations to many events automatically. They now have improved these illustrations in two ways. First, you’ll find over a dozen more of them for events like weddings and Halloween parties. Second, illustrations will now appear in 30 languages, from Dutch and Finnish to Catalan and Korean.

Want to get even more productive than you already are? Check out the 808 calendar recipes we found for you.

Navigating dozens of apps to find your content is cumbersome and time consuming. As a consequence, platforms that bundle content from various sources have become extremely valuable and popular. A calendar platform can automatically pull relevant events from your apps, which means that you don’t have to spend time digging through those apps or manually creating events.

Compared with events you have manually added to your calendar, events pulled from apps can be far more comprehensive and informative — full of engaging and actionable components. Consumers now expect rich interactive media, and relying on static plain text is a huge missed opportunity. In this concept, your calendar will provide immediate access to media such as TV episode recaps (HBO GO), sport highlights (ESPN), and Tweets from live events.

Drafts includes action steps to create calendar Events using Apple’s own provided Event creation dialog. With advanced integration actions, multiple events can be typed in Drafts, one per line, then created in Fantastical with one action.

Facebook will begin to roll out a new look for the notifications tab in its iOS and Android apps in the coming weeks; the redesign will add a suite of assistant-like reminders about your day, friends and other topics based on your preferences and previous activity.

Project Lightning is here. Twitter announced that you can follow curated events, rather than just people and it’s a huge deal.

The Must-Shoul-Maybe calendar system is designed to help you identify what is important and what is not, leading you to save time and energy from spending on not-so-important activities.

A team of researchers at Boston University has developed several attacks against the Network Time Protocol that is used to synchronize internal computer clocks on the Internet