Oh man, this is what Mitch Kapor was trying to do with Chandler! "No Silos" was supposed to mean that instead of having your email in one silo, and your calendar in another silo, and your reminder notes in a third, there would just be a single unified silo holding everything. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/01/21.html
Google Calendar for iPhone
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fixed in what way? I prefer Apple's Mail app, but I use the Gmail app when I want to look at a label or something, and it seems to work fine.
I have an issue where at least half the time I need to force-close the app, otherwise it hangs trying to load new mail. Happened on my iPhone 5 and happens on my newer 6.
I also have this issue. Also, on three separate occasions one of my accounts has just disappeared and I've needed to re-add it.
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#33Someday, maybe someday, we'll have a calendar app smart enough to show a month view and NOT anchor it to the first day of the month.
Look at the calendar in the App Store screen shot. It's February 27th and 4/5 of the month view is showing days that have already passed. The week ahead is totally lost because the next week is in March.
UX-wise is there something disorienting, taboo, or just plain illegal about centering the current week in the middle or top 1/3 of the view? Because this just sucks. And it never changes. It happens in every calendar app that has a "month" view, and it's the most unusable the last week of the month (which is, oh, 25% of the time you use it).
Apple is just as guilty (looking at you, OSX Calendar).
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#34First impression: Good Heavens, this is ugly. Second impression: What? You can't even rotate the screen to get a wider view? Are you kidding? Sayonara, Google Calendar App.
One opinion of course. Already blew away Sunrise, absolutely love the new Google Cal app.
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#35The month views where you need to click every single day to get more infos drive me crazy.
I use the WeekViewPro app[1] on iPhone to view and read a full week, and even better a full month of events. It helps a lot for scheduling and rescheduling professional and personal events.
WeekViewPro is not pretty and it's not configurable enough… but it does one thing very well: It gives you one single screen with a full month (or a full week) of information, like in desktop calendars.
It's particularly useful to see full month with name of events when you need to give people a free slot in your planning.
I have tried Fantastical, Sunrise, etc. and the only one I keep opening every single day is this little app.
(but I'd love if it integrated with Fantastical for event entry, as it is much better. )
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#36Someday, maybe someday, we'll have a calendar app smart enough to show a month view and NOT anchor it to the first day of the month. Look at the calendar in the App Store screen shot. It's February 27th and 4/5 of the month view is showing days that have already passed. The week ahead is totally lost because the next week is in March. UX-wise is there something disorienting, taboo, or just plain illegal about centeri…
Speaking personally: Yes. Most people are used to calendars in such a way as the one on their desk is laid out. Changing that would please a minority of people and disorient everyone else.
I kind of like the compromise that's taken. Show a few days into the next month as necessary to complete the week, but grey those days out and jump into the next month if clicked.
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#37Someday, maybe someday, we'll have a calendar app smart enough to show a month view and NOT anchor it to the first day of the month. Look at the calendar in the App Store screen shot. It's February 27th and 4/5 of the month view is showing days that have already passed. The week ahead is totally lost because the next week is in March. UX-wise is there something disorienting, taboo, or just plain illegal about centeri…
You can totally scroll the month view in OS X Calendar in Yosemite and center it on whatever week you want (might require a trackpad / magic mouse).
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#38Someday, maybe someday, we'll have a calendar app smart enough to show a month view and NOT anchor it to the first day of the month. Look at the calendar in the App Store screen shot. It's February 27th and 4/5 of the month view is showing days that have already passed. The week ahead is totally lost because the next week is in March. UX-wise is there something disorienting, taboo, or just plain illegal about centeri…
People think in months. Financials and billing cycles are per-month. Some people get paid monthly. I know in some european countries, this is less the case (current week#/year was almost as important).
Personally I really like how Fantastical does it - portrait view is daily forecast (-1 to +5 days) listing up top with the list of events going down equally spaced, but if you rotate, it becomes the month view (which is also shown in the lockscreen widget).
The Google Calendar app assumes I have pictures for my events. Unless it happens to be a birthday evite, I don't. They're mostly business, and don't even have a location (other than dial-in and webex). Does it just fill in some image if none is there?
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#39ugh. why no week view when you tilt the phone sideways? do you hate me being able to see my week?
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#40Someday, maybe someday, we'll have a calendar app smart enough to show a month view and NOT anchor it to the first day of the month. Look at the calendar in the App Store screen shot. It's February 27th and 4/5 of the month view is showing days that have already passed. The week ahead is totally lost because the next week is in March. UX-wise is there something disorienting, taboo, or just plain illegal about centeri…
This is actually why I use Google Calendar. The web version has a great 4 week view.