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We're Building a Calendar for Work

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Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

#31
A few years ago, I thought I'd try to redesign the calendar (as these guys seem to want to do). My innovation was integrating a timeline navigation to allow you to easily animate between months and years. Plus, loads of visual customisation options.

Sadly, the product I developed didn't take off but if you are interested in a left field take on a calendar design, you might want to take a look: https://www.chronoflocalendar.com

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

#32

I tried both FireFox and Chrome and I'm not actually seeing the calendar. Is there no screenshots or demo or anything?

There's a wall of text that you can barely see. I believe it's light purple on a dark purple background? Perhaps it hints at all the events on your calendar blending so well together that you cannot tell them apart!

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

#33
All I want from my perfect calendar is that it syncs perfectly with all other calendars that are foisted on me, that all run on different tech stacks (mainly multiple O365 and Google accounts these days) and that presents me with a holistic overal schedule of my time while keeping my different realms (work, family, friends,...) completely silod from each other.

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

#34

A few years ago, I thought I'd try to redesign the calendar (as these guys seem to want to do). My innovation was integrating a timeline navigation to allow you to easily animate between months and years. Plus, loads of visual customisation options. Sadly, the product I developed didn't take off but if you are interested in a left field take on a calendar design, you might want to take a look: https://www.chronofloca…

Nice!

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

#35

I tried both FireFox and Chrome and I'm not actually seeing the calendar. Is there no screenshots or demo or anything?

There's a wall of text that you can barely see. I believe it's light purple on a dark purple background? Perhaps it hints at all the events on your calendar blending so well together that you cannot tell them apart!

:')

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

#36

This is very interesting, I'm building something similar, an open source todo list + calendar at https://getartemis.app . I also had the same issues with todo lists and calendars. They don't communicate with each other. A calendar treats events as the main abstraction when in reality I want it to treat tasks as the main abstraction. When tasks are main, a lot of problems with todo lists are solved, especially the lac…

Thanks, looks cool!

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

#37
post #8

Would like to point out that the first three commenters as well as the creators of the project all have links to the Netherlands. Two of the three accounts have been dormant for a long time, too, before commenting infomercial-sounding comments here.

The founders are well known and respected in The Netherlands. Not sure what you imply.

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

#38

The amount of left coast tech types who've never used Outlook is astounding. Entire boutique solutions arise around features and ideas that were implemented over a decade ago by Microsoft. So many Golang developers I know have never been exposed to Active Directory, Exchange, etc. It's scary.

What's a feature of Outlook that's underappreciated most?

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

#39
post #23

Do that many people hate the Outlook calendar? I like it (maybe a bit less in OWA, but honestly it's pretty much the same). Appointments show up, meeting rooms are pre-populated, I can see when other people are busy when writing an invite and move the meeting (or reconsider if it needs to happen at all). Oh, and when people email me invites they show up in my calendar, which doesn't work nearly as well when your cale…

> Anything that doesn't involve meeting with other people or me being in a different location for a period of time doesn't go in a calendar

Experimenting with using a calendar for work can – in my experience working with hundreds of people – have a dramatically positive impact on they people work. Give it a go :)

Re: We're Building a Calendar for Work

#40

The amount of left coast tech types who've never used Outlook is astounding. Entire boutique solutions arise around features and ideas that were implemented over a decade ago by Microsoft. So many Golang developers I know have never been exposed to Active Directory, Exchange, etc. It's scary.

Somewhat agreed. That's of course not to say that "it was solved in 2005, it never needs to be revisited again" but approaching many issues as "tech" issues, and also not having some background/history of what came before (and the why behind it) leads to a lot of wasted time/effort.
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