[Design] Month/MultiWeek View

[Mimi Yin]

I've taken Reid's notes and taken a pass at phasing month / multi- 
week calendar view: http://chandlerproject.org/Notes/MonthView

(I've had a similar conversation with mde about Month View for Cosmo  
as well. I will summarize that in a different thread. But much of  
this applies to Cosmo as well.)

There are many cool and interesting things we can do with the  
calendar canvas, in particular, creating a more flexible, seamless  
viewing and navigation experience where you can zoom in and out of  
looking at a single day, multiple days, a single week, multiple  
weeks, a month, etc... If/when we get to this point, we're no longer  
talking about day, week and month views. We're talking about the  
calendar as a map of time and giving people the ability to explore  
and walk that map.

In the meantime...we're focused on meeting user needs quickly so  
phase 1 of Month View is limited to providing people with a way to  
'view' their calendar data by Month.

This addresses 'I need to view stuff by month' scenarios like:
+ I use the calendar to keep track of travel schedules and they  
almost always span weeks.
+ I don't have very many events (maybe 3-5 per week) and I really  
think of my schedule at the 'month-level' not by week.

Phase 2 addresses navigating between Day, Week and Month view and  
adding in-place editing ability. This gets at a wider range of  
planning scenarios.

Mimi

On Sep 27, 2007, at 3:38 PM, Reid Ellis wrote:

> Mimi, Jeffrey, Robin and I just had a meeting about month view/ 
> multi-week view. The notes for this meeting are in:
> 	http://chandlerproject.org/Journal/MultiWeekView20070927
>
> [also, an svn branch has been created: svn.osafoundation.org/svn/ 
> chandler/branches/multiweekview ]
>
> Reid
>
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