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Re: Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

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Post by benatkin »

everdev wrote: post #46
kryogen1c wrote: post #40

how in the holy hell do you read this? there are only 5 dates columns; how do you read days in month columns 6 and 7 (feb aug mar nov)? am i suppossed to matrix multiply this thing or what. im not normally too dumb for things but boy this is totally opaque to me.

I'm guessing you locate your month on the top, then locate the day of the month and it tells you what day of the week it is. It's an interesting design exercise, but I can't imagine people using this day to day.

My thought was "Your calendar is bad and you should feel bad." It's a reference and I don't actually mean that, except as a reaction to seeing it after clicking the title on HN which had me expecting something I might want to use.

Re: Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

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Post by joelanman »

joelanman wrote: post #50

A few years back I took part in an online design challenge to make a pocket calendar - it was a lot of fun, my designs are here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/joelanman/albums/7215759450272... One of them is very similar to this one (Design 2) - I was tidying up someone else's idea. Dunno if David Seah's was related in any way or just people came up with the same idea.

update - here's the original calendar design challenge:

http://www.elzr.com/blag/infodesign-challenge/

Re: Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

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Post by dmos62 »

crobertsbmw wrote: post #58
QueensGambit wrote: post #55

These upvotes prove that there is opportunity for products to be clever, but not simple. For every windows like product, there is an opportunity for command line tool.

Clever but not simple? I have a hard time believing that people want to sacrifice simplicity for cleverness. But I see your point about people preferring a CLI than a web portal. I guess simplicity is in the eye of the beholder. What's simple for me, can often be wizardry for my dad.

> simplicity is in the eye of the beholder

My example of this is git. I find it very complex, but it's clever, and very useful.

Re: Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

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Post by QueensGambit »

dmos62 wrote: post #83
crobertsbmw wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clever but not simple? I have a hard time believing that people want to sacrifice simplicity for cleverness. But I see your point about people preferring a CLI than a web portal. I guess simplicity is in the eye of the beholder. What's simple for me, can often be wizardry for my dad.

> simplicity is in the eye of the beholder My example of this is git. I find it very complex, but it's clever, and very useful.

At the risk of facing the wrath of developers, they also choose products that are not are not necessarily clever, but makes them clever. e.g: IaaS Vs PaaS, C++ Vs Visual Basic etc.

Developers usually say that abstraction doesn't give them enough control/flexibility. That might be true in some cases. But in most cases, they are afraid that abstraction will make them dumb, instead of making them clever.

Re: Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

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Post by keyle »

j1elo wrote: post #33

For the last 3 years I've been printing several copies of the Compact Calendar by David Seah [1]. It's as its name implies a compact form calendar that spans the whole year in a single page, and leaves enough side space to annotate stuff as needed. It's very cool and useful, although it would be nice having an open-source based version (i.e. LibreOffice), for those of us that don't have an MS Office license... [1]: h…

It certainly makes the year look a lot smaller than usual, when all the days are printed in 1/3 of a standard paper size.

Re: Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

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j1elo wrote: post #36
j1elo wrote: post #33

For the last 3 years I've been printing several copies of the Compact Calendar by David Seah [1]. It's as its name implies a compact form calendar that spans the whole year in a single page, and leaves enough side space to annotate stuff as needed. It's very cool and useful, although it would be nice having an open-source based version (i.e. LibreOffice), for those of us that don't have an MS Office license... [1]: h…

Wow I just discovered that it's uBlock Origin that totally breaks the page layout. Which means that for some reason this page's CSS are detected as an ad source, and blocked! Curious, as it seems to be a plain and simple static site. EDIT: It is the "AdGuard Annoyances" optional list, which is disabled by default but I like to enable: https://kb.adguard.com/en/general/adguard-ad-filters#annoyan...

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Re: Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

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Post by [deleted] »

timfrietas wrote: post #65
kryogen1c wrote: post #40

how in the holy hell do you read this? there are only 5 dates columns; how do you read days in month columns 6 and 7 (feb aug mar nov)? am i suppossed to matrix multiply this thing or what. im not normally too dumb for things but boy this is totally opaque to me.

I am guessing that people outside the US do not have as much trouble, as the format is naturally dd/mm/yyyy instead of mm/dd/yy, so reading left to right is more natural. It took me a brief moment to acclimate to this, but after I did I felt it was pretty straightforward and elegant.

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Re: Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

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Post by zamadatix »

intrepidhero wrote: post #74
kohtatsu wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Generate grid (it's static); Find first weekday of month using your favourite algorithm; Print month's name above the column that begins with that weekday.

favourite algorithm is left as an exercise to the reader. ;-)

Favorite algorithm can be as simple as "look at the first day of each month on a normal calendar".
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