[Design] Re: Calendar ideas

[Miguel Marcos]

Hi. Mitch, this is a mighty cool project and I'm glad to see you're behind it.
Once things start getting into shape I might be able to help out with
localization or documentation in Spanish, depending on my workload.

I probably haven't thought this out in the best way but... Tim's message
sparked a thought about using traditional calendar interfaces (view by day,
week, month) as a view for types of content, categories, types (to dos,
meetings, etc.). This kind of interface can show otherwise undetected
relationships and can als help jog one's memory when necessary as well. Many
times I feel I can remember/locate something  if I could view it in calendar
form. I can think of a few:

Email - go beyond the list sort-by-date view. Imagine viewing all of a
project's (read category's) emails via a calendar interface.
Local, remote file system (that you're authorized for!) - being able to view
files via date attributes (creation,  modification). This kind of harkens to
David Gelertner's Scopeware (Mirrorworlds) app. It would be extraordinary to
tie this into versioning but that's really asking for too much.
Notes - if it's a PIM I'm imagining it helps me by allowing me to jot down
freeform notes about anything
Browser history/RSS
Contacts - this is agenda items but filtered by contact or organization via a
calendar interface. Or filtered by contact/category.

One funky idea is to use the tool to create content: For example, a historian
who wants to generate a calendar of historical events, say the Yalta Conference
and export is as an HTML file with calendar view and each entry is a link to a
URL or perhaps to a historical agenda item in a public calendar. Or doing the
same but for a future project. Of course, it would be easiest if the calendar
were published dynamically from the app itself (broadcast) but HTML is
desirable as a good backup. I can even see the historian creating historical
contacts (Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin!) to embed in the agenda items!

It would also be neat to be able to view content and categories via Gantt chart
views (I think Outlook does this, right? I'm a Eudora user). This would be
nifty when applied to categories. For example, I create a category for Project
Nirvana. I can then view all the emails, files, notes, etc. across a single
timeline.

The ability to save such views and email them or simply assign access control
to the views so authorized colleagues can open them instantly instead of having
to recreate them.

All the best,
Miguel

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