Most calendaring software have day, week and month views – pretty standard stuff. I use Apple’s iCal which has exactly these views. Since Tasks Pro™ (and Tasks) create iCalendars of scheduled tasks, I can see all of the things I need to do listed together with any appointments I have. Generally, what I want to see is what I have coming up in the next few days (week view, for “what do I need to do?”) or over the next few weeks (month view, for “what is my availability?”). I rarely use the day view at all.
On days like today (end of the week, end of the month), both the week and month views just don’t cut it. To see more than a day or two into the future, I need to move to the next week or the next month. When I do that, I can’t see what I’ve got going on today. Why can’t I see the week or month view starting from the day I want?
What I’d like is 2 new views: next 7 days (in the week view) and next 4 weeks (in the month view). Anyone else ever wish for this?
You may not use your Treo’s calendar, but I do. They do day/week/week-at-glance/month/year, and I like that set of views. The by-week is great, but I tend to stay in the by-day now that I’m more organized.
I do sync w/ the Treo’s calendar and use it when I’m on the go, but when I’m on the computer anyway I want to get the information here too.
I think it would make sense to use the traditional views with the addition of a single option. That being to center the view on today’s date.
For example, I would imagine the month view showing the previous week and the coming 3 weeks. Once the current week came to an end the whole calendar would shift up by one and you’d be back where you where. Always having 3 weeks of upcoming info on display. In this case you could use some coloring to differentiate between the months. Does this make sense?
That’s “back where you were”…
Sunbird offers a mutliweek view, which is just what Kevin is suggesting. The current week and the coming three weeks. Different months are shaded differently, as seen here. It’s definitely my most used view.
If only Sunbird was iSync savvy…
I wish for such views at least once a week 🙂
Actually, I remember reading an article in Dr Dobbs Journal about 7 years ago by Alan Cooper that advocated this kind of view. Most of the time, I don’t particularly care what I did yesterday or last week, since it already happened.
I’d love to have such a view…