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Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by visakanv »

jere wrote: post #166

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 calend…

Oh wow, I like this too. I have always wanted to have something like this for myself and my life. And I'd like to see the past populated with historical events, etc.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by sharkoz »

It looks awesome, but I have an error when I connect my google calendar. The header shows 'connexion failed', and the console says : appBundle.js:454 Uncaught QuotaExceededError: Failed to execute 'setItem' on 'Storage': Setting the value of 'oneview_allEvents' exceeded the quota.

Maybe my calendars are too big ?

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by jegutman »

I've thought about hacking a calendar app for myself before. My pain points seemed very different. My main thing was being able to manage recurring events in a way that wasn't awful. I had a lot of recurring reminders to just take care of simple things during the week, but then I would go between time zones and some things would need to be shifted and other things fit an absolute time. Then I would go on vacation and some things needed to be snoozed on vacation but others were still important.

I never really found a good solution from this. I just happen to be on sabbatical from working and have a new kid so my life just doesn't work the same way.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by dorianm »

yuchi wrote: post #151
petermolyneux wrote: post #3

Hi all. Just wanted to show you my latest side project (been working on it for a couple of years now). It's a calendar app with a twist. It's developed as a web app, thats wy it could be integrated directly on the landing page. It can also be run on any device directly from http://app.oneviewcalendar.com Instead of the traditional monthview and day view I have used a timeline that is zoomable and scrollable. Give it…

As I said in another comment, I was developing something incredibly similar many years ago. I really believe it’s the best UI for a calendar. I hope to help you somehow, I opensourced that small thing I built then: https://bitbucket.org/yuchi/dirt-testing-1 It’s written in Coffee Script (sorry, it was all the rage in 2012) but if you create an HTTP server in the root of the project everything should work out of the b…

CoffeeScript is still popular today even if it's not as "hyped" as it used to.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by bluetidepro »

Slightly off topic, but do you know what I want? A calendar app that allows me to add events that don't have an end time. Sometimes I know when things will start, but don't care/know when it will end. Let me make the end time optional, and then just give me the alert when something happens. It's not like you get an alert when it ends. I don't get why any single calendar app I've ever used won't do this.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by autarch »

bluetidepro wrote: post #175

Slightly off topic, but do you know what I want? A calendar app that allows me to add events that don't have an end time. Sometimes I know when things will start, but don't care/know when it will end. Let me make the end time optional, and then just give me the alert when something happens. It's not like you get an alert when it ends. I don't get why any single calendar app I've ever used won't do this.

On Google Calendar, you can make events that are 0 minutes long. That'll give you an alert when it starts.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by girmad »

bluetidepro wrote: post #175

Slightly off topic, but do you know what I want? A calendar app that allows me to add events that don't have an end time. Sometimes I know when things will start, but don't care/know when it will end. Let me make the end time optional, and then just give me the alert when something happens. It's not like you get an alert when it ends. I don't get why any single calendar app I've ever used won't do this.

Many apps let you set 'reminders', which are effectively what you describe.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by wuliwong »

petermolyneux wrote: post #3

Hi all. Just wanted to show you my latest side project (been working on it for a couple of years now). It's a calendar app with a twist. It's developed as a web app, thats wy it could be integrated directly on the landing page. It can also be run on any device directly from http://app.oneviewcalendar.com Instead of the traditional monthview and day view I have used a timeline that is zoomable and scrollable. Give it…

Really cool. I'd love to hear about what technologies you used and what issues you encountered in getting it to the fast/smooth state it is today. Really great work, thanks.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by masukomi »

petermolyneux wrote: post #3

Hi all. Just wanted to show you my latest side project (been working on it for a couple of years now). It's a calendar app with a twist. It's developed as a web app, thats wy it could be integrated directly on the landing page. It can also be run on any device directly from http://app.oneviewcalendar.com Instead of the traditional monthview and day view I have used a timeline that is zoomable and scrollable. Give it…

seriously good job with the demo page.
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