The idea is really interesting. Even in a corporate environment it's good to be remembered on friday what you scheduled for this coming monday morning at 8 sharp..
-Cyril On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 12:15 -0600, Robert Park wrote: > So, let me start by saying I love the new calendar. It's sexy as hell. > This is not a criticism. This is just one little observation that > could improve usability for some users. > > I have a bunch of events listed in my evolution calendar. Shell > displays 'Today', 'Tomorrow' and 'This week' sections in the calendar. > that's excellent, BUT, the 'This week' section should *really* be > "Next 5 days" instead of the current behavior which I would describe > as "what's happening after tomorrow but before this sunday." > > That is to say, I have important events listed for this sunday, and > the calendar is not reminding me about them, even though that's just a > few days away. > > I know in corporatey type situations it makes sense to think about > things on a weekly basis and then on the weekend you don't want to > think about work at all, but unfortunately the whole "monday to > friday" thing is not as common as people think. I work tuesday to > saturday, so for me sunday is the first day of the weekend. If I look > at my calendar on saturday night, I need to be able to see at a glance > what i have planned for the next day, sunday. > > If this could be implemented this way, it would make the calendar's > display of upcoming events much more fluid, making it easier to plan > for the events of next week at the end of the current week, instead of > the current behavior of just arbitrarily cutting things off by some > random day of the week that somebody decided was a good day to ignore. > > Thanks for reading. >
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