Calendar solutions: making one?
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danaerisCalendaring is the bane of an active person and particularly, an active poly person. So, let's do something about this!
(1) What online calendar solution are you using?
(2) What features would you want in a calendar solution?
(3) What problems have you run into with your existing calendar solutions?
Unless there is a really great, free or affordable solution (and there wasn't last time I checked), I'm thinking that we should create a paypal account to accept donations, and then use those donations to pay someone in the community to MAKE something that can fulfill all our needs. Because this is a constant irritant in my life, and I'm sure it is in the lives of other poly folk as well.
Here's what I would want:
(1) Syncs with iCal for Mac
(2) Syncs with whatever the default calendar is on Windows
(3) Syncs with Palm's calendar
(4) Possible to create and subscribe to group accounts say, for a yoga studio or local queer community centre. Maybe there could also be public events. When you're adding a public event to your calendar, you'd just have to search for its name, and select from the list that showed up the one that is what you were looking for. If it isn't there, you can add it yourself! Public events would be editable by anyone.
(5) Easy interface for viewing just your own calendar, or your friends and/or group calendars. For instance, can be turned off with the click a button... perhaps a "include all" button, an "include none" button, a default view (which can be set to include just your own calendar, or yours and your primary, or whatever), and then a list of checkboxes for those friends you wish to have included.
(6) Personalized colour coding (ie. we can select the colour coding for our calendar)
(7) Enter the address properly and it automatically generates a link to google maps
(8) Optional event reminders via email and/or alarms
(9) Personalizable settings for when you sync with external programs (ie. you can decide if you want just your own stuff included, your group events, or what included in the sync)
(10) Standard calendaring features included in Palm and Yahoo Calendars
A problem example:
With group events, like say a monthly event, some people want it in their calendar view but may or may not attend. Others want it in their calendar and are DEFINITELY attending. It is annoying to view multiple calendars and have the same event show up two or more times, but there needs to be some way to indicate that yes, Sally is going to the munch for sure and is not available at that time.
Solution ideas? When adding any event to your calendar or to the list of events/groups you subscribe to, you can select it as "informational" or "definite." Then there should be an option to change it for any given instance of that event from "informational" to "definite" or vice versa, and when you do so, you should be able to say that this change is just for this one instance of that event, or that it is for all future instances (or all instances period). So when Susan views her calendar + Sally's, the munch should show up as an event Sally is attending, but it should not show up again as an event Susan might attend, because it is already on there once. Now if they also are viewing Bruce's calendar, and he is also definitely going to the munch, it should show up again to show that he is going. Or, the calendar could say, Munch: Sally and Bruce, thus saving space.
Thoughts?
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(1) What online calendar solution are you using?
(2) What features would you want in a calendar solution?
(3) What problems have you run into with your existing calendar solutions?
Unless there is a really great, free or affordable solution (and there wasn't last time I checked), I'm thinking that we should create a paypal account to accept donations, and then use those donations to pay someone in the community to MAKE something that can fulfill all our needs. Because this is a constant irritant in my life, and I'm sure it is in the lives of other poly folk as well.
Here's what I would want:
(1) Syncs with iCal for Mac
(2) Syncs with whatever the default calendar is on Windows
(3) Syncs with Palm's calendar
(4) Possible to create and subscribe to group accounts say, for a yoga studio or local queer community centre. Maybe there could also be public events. When you're adding a public event to your calendar, you'd just have to search for its name, and select from the list that showed up the one that is what you were looking for. If it isn't there, you can add it yourself! Public events would be editable by anyone.
(5) Easy interface for viewing just your own calendar, or your friends and/or group calendars. For instance, can be turned off with the click a button... perhaps a "include all" button, an "include none" button, a default view (which can be set to include just your own calendar, or yours and your primary, or whatever), and then a list of checkboxes for those friends you wish to have included.
(6) Personalized colour coding (ie. we can select the colour coding for our calendar)
(7) Enter the address properly and it automatically generates a link to google maps
(8) Optional event reminders via email and/or alarms
(9) Personalizable settings for when you sync with external programs (ie. you can decide if you want just your own stuff included, your group events, or what included in the sync)
(10) Standard calendaring features included in Palm and Yahoo Calendars
A problem example:
With group events, like say a monthly event, some people want it in their calendar view but may or may not attend. Others want it in their calendar and are DEFINITELY attending. It is annoying to view multiple calendars and have the same event show up two or more times, but there needs to be some way to indicate that yes, Sally is going to the munch for sure and is not available at that time.
Solution ideas? When adding any event to your calendar or to the list of events/groups you subscribe to, you can select it as "informational" or "definite." Then there should be an option to change it for any given instance of that event from "informational" to "definite" or vice versa, and when you do so, you should be able to say that this change is just for this one instance of that event, or that it is for all future instances (or all instances period). So when Susan views her calendar + Sally's, the munch should show up as an event Sally is attending, but it should not show up again as an event Susan might attend, because it is already on there once. Now if they also are viewing Bruce's calendar, and he is also definitely going to the munch, it should show up again to show that he is going. Or, the calendar could say, Munch: Sally and Bruce, thus saving space.
Thoughts?
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Date: 2006-03-28 02:51 pm (UTC)As for servers...I haven't looked at calendaring servers for a while...most Unix shops seem to have used Netscape's beastie. I don't know what's out there today, or who offers such a service, other than .Mac.
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Date: 2006-03-28 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-28 03:51 pm (UTC)Group calendaring is important as is the ability to share your calendar with selected people as well.
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Date: 2006-03-29 11:59 am (UTC)CalendarHub is another site that is recommended but while it has pretty much all the functionality you want it's still in Beta and it's the easiest to use.
I'm still looking for other alternatives though.
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Date: 2006-03-28 03:55 pm (UTC)Google is making an answer to Yahoo's calendar...
Date: 2006-03-28 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-28 07:31 pm (UTC)http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/08/exclusive-screenshots-google-calendar/
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Date: 2006-03-29 06:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-13 08:10 pm (UTC)