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Re: Any.do Cal

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Since we're talking calendar apps, thought I'd post this thing from Teehan+Lax called Upcoming. It's a calendar UI experiment. I'm not sure they nailed it, but it is great to see people trying new approaches... http://labs.teehanlax.com/project/upcoming

Not nearly as experimental as Upcoming, but Sunrise http://www.sunrise.am/ has been my goto for a while now. A bit buggy but pretty, functional, and improving.

Re: Any.do Cal

#32
I set it up (and allowed access to my contacts), but it only shows me like 5 people when I try to add events/tasks with a person.

Am I doing something wrong?

Re: Any.do Cal

#34
Great looking app and all, but it assumes you have good looking contacts AND high-resolution pictures of them. I wonder what visual effect it will have without all those fancy photographs of both people and scenery.

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#35

Great looking app and all, but it assumes you have good looking contacts AND high-resolution pictures of them. I wonder what visual effect it will have without all those fancy photographs of both people and scenery.

This! I personally really can't stand these apps anymore who only show us the best case scenario design on their website or screenshots. I have exactly 0 photos assigned to contacts on my phone. Also, why is there a picture of a city at night for the 'woodwork workshop'. Makes sense, huh? We're not all hispters.

Re: Any.do Cal

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post #14

I... installed it, came to the prompt about importing your contacts, decided that I didn't want to do that, found that I could not continue setting up the app without doing so, deleted the app.

exactly what I did..don't want to grant access to my corp calendar..not sure if it would copy my schedule to their servers... Do not want to give it access to my contacts.. deleted the app.

same here...

Re: Any.do Cal

#38
post #15

How is it free? Are there ads? Is the project a portfolio-demo for an agency? Are they hoping to get bought out by Apple/Google, and then replace the app with a knock-off version discombobulated by the whims VPs and PMs? Ah, the price is giving the devs a copy of my address book. To sell? rent? analyze?

well, as the aphorism goes — if the product is free, then you are the product

Re: Any.do Cal

#39
post #6

My main problem with it at first glance is that in the month view it does not highlight which days have events, so you need to click to see if there’s anything on that day.

Coincidentally, Apple has screwed this up in the iOS 7 version of the calendar too. No more indicators on days with appointments; you have to go into each one and scroll up and down through the entire list of hours.

We can hope this is only a beta problem. Then again, they still haven't fixed this in six years: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-i...

Re: Any.do Cal

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post #14

I... installed it, came to the prompt about importing your contacts, decided that I didn't want to do that, found that I could not continue setting up the app without doing so, deleted the app.

Wow, that kills the whole app. WTF does it need your contacts for? If I'm going to have lunch next week with my friend Dan, I'm going to type "Call Dan" as the appointment and be done with it. I'm not going to laboriously select a particular Dan from the several I know out of my contacts, whether they're integrated into the app or not.

This is a stupid decision.

Also: What does this have to do with the Dominican Republic?

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