this idea was posted a few months ago and I can not find it. anyone have references to it?
Logarithmic calendar view
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#22I can't access google calendar at the moment (at work), but when I use it i have it in a view that only shows the next 7 days. This ticks one of the boxes this guy's talking about. As for having an expanded view of today, and a reducing detail view of the following days ... that's a great idea i think.
You know you can go to https://www.google.com/calendar/render?
Google Calendar is also blocked where I work, but using https does the trick.
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#23Maybe I'm the only one, but I have a mental picture of my calendar using the upper-right quadrant of a Cartesian Plane. Days are on the X axis, Hours are on the Y axis. Events go from bottom-up instead of top-down like in all physical day-planners. I formed this mental model when I was very young, which may explain why I can't stand any calendaring apps today.
Does anyone else do this? I've seriously considered contacting a calendar manufacturing company to print "Cartesian Calendars" in this manner... or if any such thing already exists, please let me know!
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#24maybe like this mockup i just made? http://create.ly/g7qpwcay1
I like it. Here are some suggestions for anyone expanding this idea:
- make each of the main boxes a little bit narrower so you can have a full week (1+6) in the top section, and a full second week (including full-sized weekend days) across the bottom
- make the "flow" obvious somehow. A thicker line separating the top boxes from the bottom would help. Slightly darker or lighter background colors as you get farther from "today" would help as well.
- squeeze in navigation controls: a big "today" button, and forward/backward day and week arrows (in the day and week areas).
- the very bottom right box could be replaced with "upcoming", and list off anything marked as a priority in the next few weeks after the end of this display.
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#25Outlook's month view lets the scroll wheel scroll through weeks. I've never understood why everything doesn't do that. If I could get real Outlook on my mac I'd drop Apple Mail in a second. It's so much better of a program (even ignoring the exchange parts)
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#26Maybe I'm the only one, but I have a mental picture of my calendar using the upper-right quadrant of a Cartesian Plane. Days are on the X axis, Hours are on the Y axis. Events go from bottom-up instead of top-down like in all physical day-planners. I formed this mental model when I was very young, which may explain why I can't stand any calendaring apps today. Does anyone else do this? I've seriously considered conta…
well, you could just add a negative sign in from of the times and just write bottom up with a standard calendar
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#28maybe like this mockup i just made? http://create.ly/g7qpwcay1
I was thinking something like this that maintains a column format.
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#29I'm surprised noone brought this up, but this has been done (several times) before: the one I remember is called DateLens by Bederson et al at UMD (See http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=972652&dl=GUIDE...)
It's interesting how similar ideas keep coming up every so often.
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#30this idea was posted a few months ago and I can not find it. anyone have references to it?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1030989
Just so I don't look like a dick: I don't think he stole my idea. We actually emailed back and forth a while ago (started about something else, calendars came up).
People have the same ideas at the same time. It's always nice to get another perspective.