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Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by arve0 »

petermolyneux wrote: post #94
Vilkku wrote: post #90

Looks pretty nice. Some criticisms: * I dislike how the website hijacks scrolling, the phone doesn't fit on a Macbook 13" screen so I tried to scroll down, but that just scrolled in the app * When scrolling out to a view where I see many months at once it can only show a few events, in the demo it only shows Gym, and when I zoom in a bit more it also shows Hockey with kids. I feel these recurring events should have t…

Hi, thanks for the feedback. Sorry for hijacking the scroll, but it just had to be done :) Your second point on recurring events is good, I will look at that. Even more so the last point, that one is really important, but I haven't found a good way to solve it yet. Thanks /Peter

Third point, what if you show a horizontal stack of the events. Only one showing at the time, and the others being thin lines. Scrolling sideways would shift the view of the horizontal stack.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by alch- »

stared wrote: post #141

One point - when compressing the view I care for rare events (e.g. deadlines, conferences) not things like gym. So I would do the opposite of adding counts. (The same, when I do something daily and I compress days to a single line, I DO NOT want to see it.)

I second that, recurring events aren't very interesting to me, and they crowd the view (even when just looking at today / this week). Would be great if they were somehow less prominent.

Awesome work though, I love it!

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by alch- »

soneca wrote: post #118

I synced it to my Google Calendar, but it imported all the events of my coworkers calendars that I subscribe to. It should have a way to remove it from view or not even import them at all.

In the menu, you can manage which calendars are shown.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by epaga »

petermolyneux wrote: post #66
epaga wrote: post #44

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Beautifully done. I have had this exact idea for years as well and you basically took the dream app I was going to build "Some Day" and seem to have nailed the execution. Bittersweet feeling for me. ;-) Hope this becomes hugely successful!

Oh, Sorry friend I know that feeling. We should of teamed up ;)

Well if you ever need help with the iOS version, we still could. :-)

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by yuchi »

Kip9000 wrote: post #159
yuchi wrote: post #147

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It’s scroll-jacking to let users without a touchpad to zoom in and out. I expect the mobile/touch version to be way more sensible.

I know, but users without touchpad had zoom functionality (like ctrl+wheel or ctrl+scroll) for years. Don't get me wrong I like the zoomability of a calendar, it is an excellent way to visualise information.

Managing both is very difficult, at least until we get pointer events supported (http://caniuse.com/#feat=pointer)

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by jere »

Nice! I had a very similar idea, which I made a small prototype for in a HCI course (click on the logo to get test data): http://humbit.com/longcal/

The vision I had was a horizontal rather than vertical timeline and discrete rather than continuous zooming (though I thought a lot about implementing continuous scrolling). Yours might be the better way to do it, at least for mobile.

In any case, I think existing calendar apps fall short. There's no support for planning anything that extends out of the current month. The absolute worst is when you're in the last week of the month and you don't even see things coming up in the next few days. Someone has a birthday and you don't even see it until it's too late. And what about planning things (trips, 30 day challenges, contracts) that last weeks or months?

I even think that the shorter perspective affects our ability to do long term thinking.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by georgehotelling »

timjver wrote: post #116
danthejam wrote: post #112

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You could hijack the scroll only when the mouse is over the phone's screen not the entire page. Very interesting UI!

That's already what happens for me. I can scroll the page just fine if my cursor is off the demo device.

In Firefox the scrollwheel is hijacked regardless of where the cursor is.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by gravypod »

petermolyneux wrote: post #49
gravypod wrote: post #8

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Can it be self hosted by users? Is it open source?

Haven't thought of that, but maybe self hosting could be done. I intend to make the app free, but it isn't open source.

For me, at least, being able to personally audit, contribute, and maintain the software (even in a case where you stop caring about it) is very important to me.

In any event, looks fantastic and best of luck.

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