[Design] SpinCycle's Major Dogfood Issues

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi Jim,

> 1. Printing -- I know there are some Gant-chart contingencies here, but
> it feels like printing is coming last. Need date headings, need ability
> to print monthly, need ability to print locations, perhaps parenthetically.

Printing has not yet been a major area of focus for us yet.  It's
definitely something we want to get working by 1.0.  Thanks for the
feedback that this is really important to you.

> 2. Time Zones!!  Either I'm really missing something here, or OSAF is. 
> I do have the ability to assign a time zone to an event.  But the time
> zones do not show up in the event listing unless it is one that is other
> than my default.  That makes sense.  Here is the BIG issue: there does
> not seem to be a way to change the time zone I'm in from within
> Chandler.  And if I change my system setting in Windows (XP Pro) -- nada
> nada limonada -- nothing changes in Chandler's view.  That is not good. 
> I regularly travel between time zones, I need my events to match the
> watch that is on my wrist wherever I am at.  Moreover, I am running a
> small virtual company (Calabashmusic.com) with people in multiple time
> zones.  Not sure how Chandler will work if I have people posting to a
> company calendar.

Have you tried the widget at the top right corner of the calendar area,
which changes what timezone you're viewing the calendar in?  This is
actually an area we've put a fair bit of work into.

We have more work to do with the timezone widget we use, for now we're
just listing a dozen common timezones plus any timezones you've
imported, we realize that's just a placeholder for a more complete widget.

It's interesting to hear that you change your system timezone when you
travel, some people do this, other people don't.  What we're doing right
now is making it very easy for you to change what timezone you're
displaying in, but not automatically changing the timezone based on the
system timezone.  Given that changing displayed timezone should be easy,
is it still important to you to have Chandler change the displayed
timezone automatically?

Thanks for dogfooding,
Jeffrey