Show HN: Just a Calendar: Simple Calendar to look at, no login, super light • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Just a Calendar: Simple Calendar to look at, no login, super light

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Post by padiyar83 » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 11:16 AM UTC

sharat87 wrote: post #11

ekiauhce wrote: post #9

You can go futher. Just type cal in your terminal: ~ % cal March 2022 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Indeed. This is what I used to use before I gave in and built this. What I was missing most of all, was marks. Be able to pull up a calendar when sharing my screen with my team to collaborate on dates while marking them for some bearings. Sure, I could double-click on a date in `cal`'s output, which was what I used to do, but I can mark only a single date with that.

Thank you for building it! This is super useful. I have always been frustrated with not having access to a clean calendar, given that I use mac os (for personal stuff) and windows (for work). Apple built-in calendar app and Outlook calendar for Windows are too clunky to use. cal -y is convenient if you have a terminal window open, which I often don't have . Most of the times when I need to do something with the dates I am on my browser and what you have built comes in handy.

Re: Show HN: Just a Calendar: Simple Calendar to look at, no login, super light

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Post by sharat87 » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 11:16 AM UTC

An extra thanks to everyone checking this out and sharing issues you've faced. The fact that you folks are vocal about the issues you faced instead of just moving on, tells me I'm not the only who needed something like this. Cheers!

Re: Show HN: Just a Calendar: Simple Calendar to look at, no login, super light

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Post by achoice » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 11:46 AM UTC

wodenokoto wrote: post #14

Kinda reminds me of one of my favourite websites, https://weeknumber.com/

https://vecka.nu/ is the Swedish variant, very clean. Translats to "week.now" so easy to remember.

Re: Show HN: Just a Calendar: Simple Calendar to look at, no login, super light

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Post by beardyw » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 12:02 PM UTC

sharat87 wrote: post #6

beardyw wrote: post #5

Good idea. Calendars look good and highlighting works. You could put highlight details in localstorage so you can keep them. On my phone the header part is not good in portrait mode and not great in landscape.

Hey, thanks for the feedback. I don't open it on my phone as much so I might've regressed there. I'll take a look. The marks are actually stored in localStorage already, and is working in a desktop browser. Isn't it working for you on a mobile device?

Seems to be OK now. Not sure what happened last time.

Re: Show HN: Just a Calendar: Simple Calendar to look at, no login, super light

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Post by yardshop » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 12:15 PM UTC

sharat87 wrote: post #4

greenyoda wrote: post #2

The date here is currently 3/30/2022 (12:56 AM), but the calendar tells me it's the 29th of March (I assume that's what the red box around the day means).

Hey, thanks for reporting this. Looks like I was using UTC time for the today-highlight (surprised I haven't noticed this all this while). Should be fixed now.

I'm seeing the same thing, showing March 29. My current time is 2022-03-30 08:14:53 EDT.

Re: Show HN: Just a Calendar: Simple Calendar to look at, no login, super light

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Post by elthor89 » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 12:20 PM UTC

ekiauhce wrote: post #9

You can go futher. Just type cal in your terminal: ~ % cal March 2022 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

I never liked the calendar from apple if I quickly wanted to look something up.

After looking at the OP website I was already thinking this is what I want. However after learning from you that I could also type "cal" in the terminal, mind blown.

Thank you to both of you!

Re: Show HN: Just a Calendar: Simple Calendar to look at, no login, super light

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Post by loloquwowndueo » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 12:49 PM UTC

ekiauhce wrote: post #9

You can go futher. Just type cal in your terminal: ~ % cal March 2022 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

cal 2022 - will give you the calendar for the whole year.

Re: Show HN: Just a Calendar: Simple Calendar to look at, no login, super light

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Post by bko » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 1:02 PM UTC

It would be great if you could share this via url. You don't have to store anything, just query params.

https://calendar.sharats.me?g=20220101,20220102, ....

You can save the year you're viewing as well as any highlighted dates and their color. You can fit a lot in query params or further even compress the dates.

Re: Show HN: Just a Calendar: Simple Calendar to look at, no login, super light

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Post by maverwa » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 1:15 PM UTC

MarcellusDrum wrote: post #16

"Got to date" doesn't work on Firefox 98.0.2. Console shows the error: Uncaught TypeError: app is undefined promptGoToDate https://calendar.sharats.me/app.js:303 onclick https://calendar.sharats.me/:1

should be fixed now (just tested it and it worked)

Re: Show HN: Just a Calendar: Simple Calendar to look at, no login, super light

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Post by maverwa » Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 1:19 PM UTC

sharat87 wrote: post #22

An extra thanks to everyone checking this out and sharing issues you've faced. The fact that you folks are vocal about the issues you faced instead of just moving on, tells me I'm not the only who needed something like this. Cheers!

thank you for the reminder that, sometimes, the tools we really need are not the complex, fancy "products", but indeed "Just a calendar". I like the simple, no-depenency solution.