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Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by josephcooney »

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

Agree re: scrolling - it would have been difficult/impossible to get across the behaviour of the app in the is regard without hijacking.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by OJFord »

Nice! Reminds me of Spence & Apperley's bifocal display ('fisheye') calendar [1], but on a single axis.

I remember thinking when I saw that in an HCI course a couple of years ago that despite being over 30 years old it was a better calendar app UX than anything available that I was aware of!

[1] - see Fig. 6 of http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/r.spence/pubs/SA82.pdf

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by rangibaby »

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…

I think the scroll-jacking is necessary here because of how the "app" works. I usually hate it too.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by yoz-y »

One thing I learnt from working on a calendar app is that the things which people want to see are seemingly very different from person to person.

In the case of your calendar I would prefer if the events that happen on the same time would "expand" much sooner. In the example if you want to see both morning-briefing and my-breakfast-day you need to zoom in to a day view. I would much rather see these events one under another in the "week" zoom level, especially since there is a lot of free space available.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by hn_user2 »

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

Perhaps heatmap showing number of events.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by Freak_NL »

wingerlang wrote: post #97
qw wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Week numbers are used a lot in my experience. Features are often promised by week X. Events, work schedules and even vacations are also often referenced by week.

It could vary by country as well, when I grew up and went to school it was used a whole lot. I don't remember the last time I saw it though, and since moving abroad I definitely haven't seen it.

It varies a lot by trade and profession. Any place where complex scheduling is part of the job tends to use them (e.g., schools, manufacturing plants, accounting).
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