Aug 31
I admit it. I don’t really care about months. When a new one comes round, nothing changes in my life.
So, why is the ‘month view’ so prevelant in calendar apps?
What I normally DO care about is context. My ideal view would be:
3-4 weeks into the future and maybe 1 week into the past. This way I can see what is coming up, and a bit of what just happened.
The month view totally breaks down when you are at the border of a month.
August 31st, 2006 at 5:13 pm
I don’t remember where I read this but month-based calendar apps are described as being stuck on the paper calendar metaphor instead of exploiting the new electronic medium with a rolling view on dates.
August 31st, 2006 at 6:26 pm
Set Google Calendar to “Next 4 weeks” and you’re done.
October 3rd, 2006 at 10:01 am
Well, although Google Calendar has a next 4 weeks view, it’s hard to tell it what date to start with. It seems to be stuck on only displaying the next 4 weeks starting this week. This makes it difficult to browse week by week.
January 20th, 2007 at 6:47 am
Weeks, days, nothing beats this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHDMAy8qAcc