First: thank you w00t for taking the time and trouble to engage here [again], even though this is not an official Jolla support channel. I appreciate it a great deal, and I am sure that others do as well.

Good point. I will write this up on TJO as soon as I have time to research it properly and write it up. So no, I haven't raised this, but that is because I am waiting for a resolution to a more serious issue which makes reminders more or less irrelevant: all my appointments are offset by a number of hours. At least two other users have this issue, but it remains a fairly unloved question.

Peeking inside the sqlite db, it seems as though the appointments download correctly, but are then almost immediately adjusted somehow by Sailfish.

You asked me whether the Today view is good enough:

I am grateful for this tip as I hadn't realised you could scroll up and down between days in this view, but in short, my answer is: nope, not even close.

Although it's probably annoying to some, I would like to give my answer in the form of a large image:



In short, the Today view:

1. doesn't show me my upcoming events for the next few days (which is my requirement)
2. makes a feeble attempt to show me some sort of Agenda, but it is cramped and doesn't give any idea of when the appointments are happening
3. shows me loads of blank space for time when I will be sleeping. Instead of empty nothing-ness, perhaps an option to hide a configurable "sleep" range of hours, unless there is something there? Perhaps this - or an "empty time collapsing" option - could be a toggle setting if people really like to stare at the hours in which they will be doing nothing
4. shows me an appointment from yesterday right at the top
5. is hidden several taps deep in the Calendar app, but I need to look quickly at this all the time without becoming absorbed in my phone - wasn't glanceabillity one of the original design principles of Sailfish? I have to make minimum 4 taps after unlock to get to the panning view, and then have to scroll like crazy up and down to see what is happening in my life

...to say nothing of the fact that all my downloaded-from-google appointments appear several hours earlier than they should across the board in Sailfish, so the entire calendar functionality is almost useless to me.

Having said all that, I don't want to sound too critical, because there is so much to love about Sailfish, and the regular updates have made huge improvements to this young OS. I have faith that things can be fixed, and you are quite right that no-one will fix an issue which hasn't been reported.

Next up, I will try to do a mockup of what I think the Agenda should be, but I've spent too much time on this already today and my employer also has legitimate claims on my time today.

I like Manatus' summary of calendar issues. It is perhaps a more concise summary of the issues than my long, rambling and excessively graphical post here.

Finally: I found the rock-solid N9 calendar implementation in combination with thp's billboard to be the perfect way of not forgetting stuff. For a couple of years there I was super-reliable... but now I have to choose between putting down my Jolla and going back to N9, or continuing with Sailfish and struggling to manage my agenda until all these issues are resolved.

So for me, at least, anything which can get Sailfish closer to that essentially perfect CalDAV implementation and 0-tap reminder system would be a step in the right direction.