[Design] [D/f] Preview area

[Bryan Stearns]

+1 to fixing the preview pane to today's events
+1 to labeling it to help prevent confusion

Aparna Kadakia wrote:

> I have been using chandler for personal calendaring as well as Office  
> calendar calendaring.
>
> I find myself navigating to different week days expecting the preview  
> area to show me the events for that day. Basically the confusion  
> arises because there's nothing in the preview area that tells you  
> this is today's events only.
>
> If we put a label there saying "Today's Events" people like me would  
> definitely find it less confusing.
>
> On Mar 17, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Sheila Mooney wrote:
>
>> So, I am finding the preview area fixed to always display today's  
>> events really useful. Originally, there was some discussion about  
>> whether or not it should update as we move in the calendar view or  
>> leave it fixed to display today's events. Personally, my week or  day 
>> view is almost never on "today" since I schedule many meetings  in 
>> advance and rarely navigate my calendar back to this week. For  
>> today, I could see in the preview area that it's my father-in-law's  
>> birthday, so I remembered to phone him - I often miss this kind of  
>> thing :-).
>>
>> Sheila
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