Not only ^ this, but also working with geo-distributed teams

They try to work with me but I cancel their meeting requests and deal with them through email. We should all be doing this

But not everyone uses their work calendar for personal reasons, some prefer to keep their personal commitments private.

I put a generic “out of office” block on my calendar if I have personal business and it’s rare enough that I don’t get why it needs a solution. Maybe other people are scheduling things during work hours a lot more often than me?

That totally works if it is rare for you! The last 2 months I've had a few things I've added to my personal calendar that synced with work calendar: lunch with a family member, dropping off or picking up car from service, haircuts, contractor stopping by, dentist, vet appointment, etc. It's nice to not worry about it since it marks me as Busy right when I create the event.

I’m sorry for being negative. I just wanted to rant about people who try to schedule friendship on a calendar.

This sounds reasonable and I wish you good luck

Sadly, this is not novel where the problem and researcher community stand is well known (or, should be). See "the cost of knowledge" release in 2012 by Timothy Gowers. http://thecostofknowledge.com/

This is stunning. I'm very excited about it. As I really disliked the Zotero experience, I'm going to test it as soon as possible and provide you with immediate feedback.

Thanks a lot! Super pumped. Yeah we definitely want to improve the experience for researchers. Looking forward to your feedback!