If ClickUp really wants to be "one app to replace them all" it is going to have to replace Google Calendar. Amirite? We need to be able to drag our tasks onto our calendars without interfering with our scheduled meetings and appointments, which means we need to see the recurring meetings we normally put on Google Calendar on the ClickUp Calendar. Right? Right!

But a seemingly tiny detail --- the lack of a "change just this event" option for recurring tasks --- makes this impossible. If ClickUp wants to win people over from Google Workspace, it's simply going to have to add this feature.

As shown in attached screenshot, Google Calendar has long allowed you to modify just "this event" when you change a single instance of a recurring task. It's the most commonly chosen option in the pop-up box, and a "power user" of Google Calendar I must use it twenty times a week. This simple option allows me to change of a recurring task --- the time, the duration, the description --- while leaving all other instances of the recurring event the same. Or, if I need to, I can delete an instance while leaving all future ones intact.

Tragically, this isn't possible in ClickUp. So off-brand! By not having a "change just this event" feature, ClickUp forces you into a three-minute nightmare of petty considerations and a dozen clicks in order to end the current recurring event and create a new recurring event, which is very time consuming and also creates 2 events when there is just one. When you're done you've completely lost the flow of what you were doing. Again, super off-brand for ClickUp; the very opposite of improving productivity, it's a huge drag on my attention and time.

An example will show what I mean.

Example: I have a 10am meeting every Monday called "10AM Monday Meeting". It is scheduled to recur forever on schedule (rather than on completion of the previous week). I need it this way in order to see, on every week's calendar, that 10AM is not available for a meeting.

Now say that I need to cancel just a single instance of this recurring event for American's Labor day, which falls on a Monday. In Google Calendar this is super-easy and takes less than a second. I just cancel "this event" as in the screenshot below. That's it -- the end.

But, tragically, In ClickUp this takes ~3 minutes (believe me, I've timed it). I have to 1) end the current recurring event the week before 2) duplicate the task (if I want to keep all its subtasks, descriptions, attachments, etc), 3) change the start date. It is super glitchy and often has to be tried a few times, with refreshes etc, before it sticks. This is super time consuming and annoying --- it feels like being stuck in a long line at the supermarket checkout with a slow and confused cashier and being left to mutter "surely they can do better than this."

To make matters worse, the result in List View is frankly unacceptable. The above process leaves me with events called "10AM Monday Meeting", the one that ended the week before Labor day, and the one that starts the week after. Ridiculous! And God forbid I merely want to change the time. Now I have 3 events.

For those who think you can drag future events (the ones with the dashed boundaries) around without changing all the events that come after, just try it. ClickUp goes crazy, changing the times, durations, appearance, and so on, leading to so much confusion that it isn't worth it.

ClickUp decision makers --- please follow Google's well-worn, time-tested lead! It's "on brand" and is going to win you converts from Google Calendar. I want to switch, but without it, I can't.