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Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by yuchi »

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 box because I checked in the compiled sources. To zoom in and out use shift-drag.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by __d »

I like it! A few things that'd be really useful: - timezones when adding an event - and "floating" for eg. morning run - supporting different start and end timezones is really useful for plane flights - a second timezone shown on the left

I use these things a lot currently (except for the separate start/end timezones cos no-one does that well, sadly)

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by derflatulator »

Nice work. Love the UI, and general concept.

My only criticism would be that the two vertical buttons/labels take up a fair chunk of the horizonal real estate.

Perhaps just show the right one, and use strings such as "December 2015" and "22 Thurs (Dec)"?

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by edraferi »

__d wrote: post #152

I like it! A few things that'd be really useful: - timezones when adding an event - and "floating" for eg. morning run - supporting different start and end timezones is really useful for plane flights - a second timezone shown on the left I use these things a lot currently (except for the separate start/end timezones cos no-one does that well, sadly)

Outlook does separate start and end timezones. It's still outlook though.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by vladharbuz »

I don't really understand how zooming works here — if I scroll up then down a bunch of times, I get really zoomed out and can't zoom back in.

Additionally, the zooming mechanic could use some improvement, as it seems really jerky on my Macbook.

Good idea, best of luck with it!

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by melbamorph »

I can't connect to my Google calendars. It just gives me the spinning circle then tells me failed to connect. When I look after it fails, it shows me my calendar list but it can't seem to display events. I have tried refreshing and disconnecting then connecting again but it gives the same error. I love this calendar concept and would love to give it a go. Any hints? I'm using chrome on my phone (Nexus5x).

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by 13hours »

fudged71 wrote: post #115
dheera wrote: post #89

My biggest gripe with Google Calendar is the lack of consolidation of duplicate events. Often I have about 3-4 copies of various events and a storm of 10+ notifications for every appointment. If you can solve this problem, it would be a killer app for me.

FYI there is a chrome extension which solves this!

Do you have a link? I have many birthday duplicates on my Google Calendar for example.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by melbamorph »

jacalata wrote: post #19
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…

I like it! On my Android phone, I tried connecting my calendar - went through the Google with screen but then got some error message ("could not connect"?), and a spinning circle that never went away.

Same here. I'm on Android phone as well.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by Kip9000 »

yuchi wrote: post #147
Kip9000 wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like the idea but semantically, this is confusing. If I want to scroll, it zooms in/out. Even that, it doesn't keep the focus making me wanting to really scroll. Now I'm really confused how to scroll. (I know how but I'm giving you the cognitive load that's necessary here). What would be cool is to use zoom gestures to ....zoom . That is completely intuitive. Aside from that, vertical bars take too much screen spac…

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.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by Brakenshire »

Kip9000 wrote: post #139
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…

I like the idea but semantically, this is confusing. If I want to scroll, it zooms in/out. Even that, it doesn't keep the focus making me wanting to really scroll. Now I'm really confused how to scroll. (I know how but I'm giving you the cognitive load that's necessary here). What would be cool is to use zoom gestures to ....zoom . That is completely intuitive. Aside from that, vertical bars take too much screen spac…

The zoom and touch gestures are there on mobile. Ideally the same would be available for laptops that have the same gestures on their touchpad. Presumably this would require something like Pointer Events:

http://caniuse.com/#search=pointer%20events

For a traditional PC interface, there isn't such a natural way of handling this interface.

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