This is my take on a 5 row business calendar designed to fit my needs. I've been using it for years and it works flawlessly. Every entry comes on two rows: on the first row I've placed the event itself and on the second row, the meeting date, time range and meeting's location. It works especially well with exchange synced calendar events.
What makes this calendar widget really different from other approaches is the implementation of two visual cues which I find very useful:
1. Under advanced parameters for each field, I built conditions so TOMORROW'S pending events are shown in light-blue, TODAY'S events are shown in yellow and events outside today's or tomorrow's range are shown in grey. The whole idea behind the coloring is getting instant visual cues. In my opinion it works really well. A yellow entry makes me stop and check the details right away while a blue colored event keeps reminding me, throughout the day, to check it out and eventually familiarize with it. The grey ones can be ignored for now.
2. Furthermore, I've also altered the opacity of second rows in order to emphasize the events themselves (1st rows).
The only catch in the used algorithm, for leap years you'll have to go to advanced parameters and replace 365 for 366, otherwise the intended color scheme changes. I'd be curious if anybody can find a solution to that.
Obviously you can change the colors as you wish. Attached is the zw file, archived as zip.
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Am I the only one who still uses printed calendars or is there anyone else?
Did you mean printed, as in on paper?
JustusMarks said:
Am I the only one who still uses printed calendars or is there anyone else?
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Yesterday, while trying to help someone with their pda, I unticked all my 3rd party today plug-ins, and went back to the 'ordinary' plug-ins supplied, ie, owner, date, calendar, tasks etc etc.
To my surprise, there were 2 overdue tasks showing. So, I went to the native tasks app, and couldn't see any. I played around with all the filters/views etc etc, and there were no overdue tasks! I decided to sync to desktop outlook, as usual, and have a look at the tasks there. Nope, this exactly mirrored what I have in my tasks application.
The numbers don't correlate either.
eg,
In my tasks folder I have 13 tasks, 4 high priority, 4 normal, 5 low. (none overdue).
the native tasks today plug-in shows:
12 Active tasks
4 high priority
2 overdue
The native tasks application shows 13 tasks, just as expected.
I think that the difference between the 12 and 13 is one task which technically is not 'active' yet, but what worries me is the 2 overdue which are goodness knows what.
Can anyone explain this, and does anyone know of a remedy (apart from hard reset)?
thanks
I don't want to seem dismissive but look what I got one day:
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Someone here commented that I must work for the same company he does!
Apologies - I know it does not help you.
Mike
I think you should get started on the 144 high priority ones.
SK tools thinks I have no overdue tasks too!
Would it be possible to create a program that acts like Yahoo Widgets' (Konfabulator) HUD or Apple's Dashboard? In other words, dim the today screen and load a few light widgets (calendar, to-do list, weather, time, etc.).
Kind of like this; pictured with Grumps' iPhone launcher.
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This would be fantastic!
That would be great, especially paired with a decent screen lock. I mean, when screen is locked and a key pressed this would show over today, when unlocked, it would go back to today.
I like the idea. S2U2 does some of that already but I like the detail of the pic.
Curious G.
actually, S2U2 does all these things..
It would be nice if s2u2 would take a snap shot of your actual today screen and fade it out before adding its own graphics (ie slide bar and sms count etc) over the top. Might be a bit much to ask though i guess
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actually, S2U2 does all these things..
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i agree. i use often my yahoo wigets hud on my laptop to catch snipets of information, plus they just look great. anywho, how cool would it be if there were a base engine and open sourced widgets for an application? one click (e.g., center button) to bring up the hud to and one to close.
here's another concept:
evilc..is kinda working on Today screen Widgets..maye he can shed some light
Yeah mine was more basic though, but there is a new project starting which looks really promising: XIAMultiTheme
Open source and can load widget dlls - will be nicely extendable methinks.
the only real thing i would like to see a quick calendar (even if it were text only) and day runner.
So, I'm working on a concept called Devonshire and I'd like to get people's opinions on it.
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What I want to do with the photo stack is actually keeping the white frame and cutting out the photo so users can add their own photo underneath to simulate their own photo. Is there a way to do to this and make the photo cycle at a predetermined interval?
The Home Page icons are all new and semi-transparent. The 1st icon will bring up a sub-menu with 6-8 most common used programs. The 2nd icon is the phone icon. The 3rd icon is the alt-tab icon. The 4th is the S2U2 icon.
I'm thinking that pressing on the clock will open the "next appointment" dock.
What do you guys think?
Terrific concept. Look forward to the finished product.
I updated the first page with the five different tabs side-by-side. Right now, I'm about 80% done with getting things installed unto WAD. By later today, I should have a version that I can upload here =D
For both the apps/settings page and contacts page, the bottom right and bottom left corner of the book will change the pages (docks).
I have a question: For the home page, is there a way on WAD to make the photos change every 5 min automatically?
Also, I haven't played around with the built-in agenda in WAD, but is it possible to use the graphics I have for the agenda (Today header strip, highlighted strip, day header strip)
Any feedbacks?
It looks a little cluttered to me, but it still looks nice.
I noticed that on the HTC Desire/N1 that the HTC Mail integration for lets say Exchange is different than on the incredible.
I really liked the Mail that has the emails in rows listing the subject, etc. Instead on the Incredible the emails comes in a single white backgrounded page and you have to flick up to read the next email. You don't have a choice to pick different options when you add the widget.
Am I am missing something here?
What you seem to be describing is the "Widget" interface. It only shows one page. When you select the "mail" icon, the one that shows how many emails arrived, it will come up with the list of emails, opened and unopened. From the widget you can get to it by clicking on the bottom left icon showing the small horizontal bars (in the widget, there are icons at the bottom.)
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What you seem to be describing is the "Widget" interface. It only shows one page. When you select the "mail" icon, the one that shows how many emails arrived, it will come up with the list of emails, opened and unopened. From the widget you can get to it by clicking on the bottom left icon showing the small horizontal bars (in the widget, there are icons at the bottom.)
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Looking for this type of screen that they show:
Exchange Widget? Not sure.. Just like this one better. It seems like the incredible doesn't allow for you to select the 3 tabs like it does on the UK Desire.
It only offers the 1st one.
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Hi,
My unit should be coming tomorrow and I was just wandering any cool tricks for the S-Pen button?
Thx.
They act as mouse left click select ..
Mark text like youd do with a mouse on a pc.
Other than that, the image clip is handy IME, for quite a few things. My most recent thing was making a quick S Note document to share with travel companions by clipping flight info from email, hotel info from my browser, directions to the hotel from maps with handwritten circles around nearby landmarks naming them, and weather info for the trip. Sent it to my travel companions with email as a PDF, they could print it or keep it on their phone. Really quick and easy.
example:
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Other than that, taking a picture and drawing over it has been quite useful, for instance Im attending a course on a new piece of SW for my firm, I can take a picture of the interface, circle around a particular feature on the UI and make a note about that particular bit, instead of having to describe what part the notes are about for that particular segment (like say marking the taskbar in windows 7 and noting that you can pin programs there) which is a lot easier to teach on to colleagues.
Hold the button and doubletap the screen (even lockscreen depending on your device lock choice i guess) to instantly get action memo up.
Iunno... stuff like that? Theres a lot more about the SPen itself, but for the button Im not sure what else to tell you off of the top of my head.
Apps can also use the button for things - for example LectureNotes allows to use it to switch to eraser.