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Multi-Layered Calendars

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Re: Multi-Layered Calendars

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Post by andrewrothman »

NoboruWataya wrote: post #8

I just wish more companies communicated using iCalendar. In work calendar events are ubiquitous but I have found it really valuable to use them to organise my personal life as well. The problem is that it can be quite tedious to enter everything by hand. I wish cinemas, theatres, restaurants, hotels, airlines, train companies, etc etc, all sent you calendar appointments when you booked with them online. In my experie…

This might be of interest:

RFC 8984 JSCalendar: A JSON Representation of Calendar Data https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8984.html

Re: Multi-Layered Calendars

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Post by actionfromafar »

andrewrothman wrote: post #11
NoboruWataya wrote: post #8

I just wish more companies communicated using iCalendar. In work calendar events are ubiquitous but I have found it really valuable to use them to organise my personal life as well. The problem is that it can be quite tedious to enter everything by hand. I wish cinemas, theatres, restaurants, hotels, airlines, train companies, etc etc, all sent you calendar appointments when you booked with them online. In my experie…

This might be of interest: RFC 8984 JSCalendar: A JSON Representation of Calendar Data https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8984.html

xkcd://927#standards

Re: Multi-Layered Calendars

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Post by magarnicle »

This gets at one of the truly good ideas in Outlook - everything is an object you can embed or link in everything else. You can put a task in an email, then put that email in a calendar event, then link to that calendar event in another task.

Of course, it's a very underdeveloped idea - more of a neat trick than a first-class feature - but it does make it easy to put everything related to a project in one spot. An app that tracked all these linkages for you would be fantastic.

Re: Multi-Layered Calendars

#15

Post by paulryanrogers »

fellowniusmonk wrote: post #2

Time management, project management, chat, calendars, email, operating systems themselves, all this shit we evolved into because we started with 8.3 char file limits, booting from floppy disks, other long forgotten hardware based concessions, and a host of other cruft we still haven't thrown off. Our interfaces are not based on first principles of reality or organized thinking, they're all just hodgepodge artifacts e…

IDK most of the primitives seem foundational to communicating digitally: messaging, events, tasks, reminders, tickets, and boards.

Lines may blur and other experiments are continuously being tried, forgotten, rediscovered, etc.

Few seem limited to legacy constraints given modern software and protocols.

Re: Multi-Layered Calendars

#16

Post by codybontecou »

mastermedo wrote: post #4

I second the idea of revisiting the calendar. I add events in the calendar of what I’ve been doing every time I context switch. It makes it purposefully annoying to context switch often, and I revisit what I did that week at the end of it. Additionally, I’m able to answer questions such as “What percentage of time do I spend on research vs writing vs coding etc.

Do you document when/if you get distracted?

Re: Multi-Layered Calendars

#17

Post by FrenchyJiby »

This idea of getting historical data fused from multiple private sources, to be able to remember properly what happened, was at the core of Memacs[1], an Emacs (org-mode-based) data-fusion framework feeding into calendar.

Here's a diagram from the Memacs repo:

   emails              -> memacs-maildir.py  \
   firefox history     -> memacs-firefox.py   |
   SMS                 -> memacs-sms.py       |
   RSS-feeds           -> memacs_rss.py       |
   bank statements     -> memacs-easybank.py  |>  Memacs
   postings            -> memacs-slrn.org     |
   git repository logs -> memacs_git.py       |
   svn repository logs -> memacs_svn.py      /
   |_________________|   |_________________|     |______|
   your personal data      Memacs modules        Org mode
This relied on org-mode having a good date-links-to-calendar and agenda system.

See the whitepaper, called "What really happened on September 15th 2008? Getting The Most from Your Personal Information with Memacs"[2].

This project is now a little bit dead, but the concept of private data fusion was fantastic, and transformed my view of calendars.

Agree that calendars are a little underused in that way, and would love to see more work towards that private calendar data usage.

[1]: https://github.com/novoid/Memacs [2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.1332

Re: Multi-Layered Calendars

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Post by smeej »

I can't even find a calendar that lets me enter where I'm leaving from to get to an event and where I'm heading after it to add the travel time automatically, with a specified margin of error.

Much less can I export the details of my activity from my smart watch or my web browsing history so I can easily review my day and figure out what happened and why.

Calendars suck at being calendars. We're not even close to ready to have them be repositories.

What I wouldn't give to be able to export logs from everything I use that keeps logs and map them to a calendar...as long as I have control of the data.

Re: Multi-Layered Calendars

#20

Post by _virtu »

smeej wrote: post #19

I can't even find a calendar that lets me enter where I'm leaving from to get to an event and where I'm heading after it to add the travel time automatically, with a specified margin of error. Much less can I export the details of my activity from my smart watch or my web browsing history so I can easily review my day and figure out what happened and why. Calendars suck at being calendars. We're not even close to rea…

So something like rescuetime that exports data from your active programs to a calendar/event timeline visualization a la the spotify example from the article?
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