[Design] Sowers's Experimentally Useful Notes #5

[Jim Sowers]

Things I'd love to see:

- Drag to highlight new event, then start typing.  Generally, to create 
an event, I drag my mouse on the time within the calendar to highlight.  
I must then double-click, or Click in the event.  Seems like once the 
time is highlighted, I should immediately be able to type to name the 
event, and not have to click, etc.

- To do next week -- a list of things I want to accomplish in a given 
week, which I may start thinking about the Wed. of the previous week.  
Generally I start planning a week in advance for goals that do not have 
specific times.

- Smart parsing of an invite -- determine start time, fill in location, 
title.  I often get emails with all the details--would be nice to have a 
smart parser.

  - Map of places to visit during the day.  I often have to travel 
several places in a day in a given order.  I wind up mapping A to B, B 
to C, C to D.  Supercool would be feature that pulls the locations in 
order and generates the directions for the day.

- Mode field: How are you getting there? Plane, Train, Automobile, Feet, 
Motorcycle, etc.

- Rollover to reveal event behind event.   Sometimes I create 
overlapping events.  Would like to rollover the one in the background to 
reveal it.

- Ability to merge two collections together.

- When is one month calendar view coming?

- Need a search box -- getting spoiled in having ability to search 
across all items, all fields (e.g., I want to be able to search and find 
stuff in Notes).  At least basic search for items in calendar.

- I can add an event to "My Items" which is not associated with any 
other collection.  However, I cannot Sync My Items, whereas I can Sync 
other individual collections.  How to Sync My Items without doing a Sync 
All?

That is all.

Jim (SpinCycle)
http://spincycle.org/video/africaride_med.mov
http://moonride.org/slideshows/