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Re: Show HN: I built presently.live for better weekend planning and insights

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Post by Pamar » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 5:23 AM UTC

Hi - first of all... congratulations for putting this together.

I have some reservation about the whole concept of making weekends the focus of the whole planning.

Maybe it's because I live in Europe, but if one of our Bank Holiday falls on ... Tuesday, let's say, it is pretty normal to take a day off and enjoy a 4-days "weekend". This also applies to other cases were the national or bank holiday happens to be on Friday or Monday (e.g.: Easter).

In other words, some weekends are more "relevant" than others, but it is not so obvious if you do not also see potentially relevant dates of the week.

(I di try to plan my vacations/activities as early possible in the year, but I could not do it without a more complete view of the whole calendar.)

Re: Show HN: I built presently.live for better weekend planning and insights

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Post by jonnyparris » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 6:34 AM UTC

Pamar wrote: post #11

Hi - first of all... congratulations for putting this together. I have some reservation about the whole concept of making weekends the focus of the whole planning. Maybe it's because I live in Europe, but if one of our Bank Holiday falls on ... Tuesday, let's say, it is pretty normal to take a day off and enjoy a 4-days "weekend". This also applies to other cases were the national or bank holiday happens to be on Fri…

That's a great insight that I've also been coming around to, although from the angle of needing to know which weekends fall within school holidays from multiple countries (cousins). You can toggle the visibility of midweek events (e.g. bank holidays) alongside the primary row of weekends but it would be sweet if you didn't have to in order to have the same insight. Thanks for flagging!

We would typically have this "year-level" view open alongside a scrolling month view in our regular calendar to have a more complete picture, but not to totally replace the normal calendar...yet! Tweaks based on insights like yours (alongside write-access) have slowly meant that we switch back to the traditional view less and less. It's a design goal, but only if it's actually a better experience overall.

Re: Show HN: I built presently.live for better weekend planning and insights

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Post by jonnyparris » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 6:37 AM UTC

CPLX wrote: post #10

Why are you relying on #free as the toggle when free/busy is an actual native attribute of an event in Google calendar?

Mainly because free/busy means different things in different contexts (i.e. work vs. personal vs. school) and so I wanted to keep any personal planning-related interpretations of busyness confined to this view.