[voisin]

I am a Fastmail user. I wish they would break out their Calendar from their Email app so that I could easily switch between them when composing emails and needing to reference my calendar (when mobile, using the app). I assume this is a pretty common use case - has anyone found a workflow for this?

[PaulHoule]

It's a pet peeve of mine that most email clients want to put the calendar and email list view in places where, by default, you can see one at a time. (I think Outlook started it but I could be wrong)

If I am scheduling something I have a lot on my mind including the contents of the calendar and the email, possibly other emails, other things on the computer and other things that are just in my head. Seeing the calendar and the email simultaneously is the foundation for this. There are work-arounds but these are flawed in their own way. I hate opening multiple email windows in Outlook because if I do it seems Outlook is going to keep opening them forever every time I open Outlook.

Myself I use eM client as a front end for Fastmail.

[jwells89]

I think you're right in that the trend started with Outlook, but at least for a while Microsoft offered an opt-out in the form of Outlook Express, which was just a mail client.

My preference is that email and calendar are two entirely separate apps, because I have my calendar open for about half of the emails I compose, and the remainder of my calendar usage has nothing to do with email at all. This is one of the reasons I've stuck with Apple Mail + Calendar through the years.

[steve_adams_86]

I keep a two tabs, one with my email and the other with my calendar. You can also access your calendar in a side bar from within the email view. Are either of those useful to you?

I’m not sure if I understand what your issue is, but it seems like it’s possible to do this.

[voisin]

Sorry, I do most of my emails from my phone or iPad using their app rather than the website.

[steve_adams_86]

I know on iOS I can swipe down on the message I’m writing while writing an email (this hides the keyboard), then hit the calendar icon at the bottom of the screen. From the calendar view, if I hit the email icon I’m brought back to the draft I was just writing.

I have no idea if the same convention will work on Android, though.

[davidbanham]

If you add your fastmail account to iOS it’ll populate the inbuilt calendar and mail apps. Then you’ve got separate apps for each in addition to the fastmail app. Use whichever ones you please.

[zephraph]

The calendar is available in the sidebar (on desktop) which I tend to use quite often. On mobile if you swipe down it should hide the keyboard and you can switch to the calendar while keeping your draft open on the email tab.

I generally agree that the workflow could be improved though.

[geniium]

Oh that’s an interesting problem i never realized could happen.

What about using the calendar app of your os (or another?) to be able to switch?