[Design][Cosmo] Month/MultiWeek View and Overlays

[Mimi Yin]

I've pulled together a similar page for Hub UI Month View and  
Overlays. Again, this is a list of a 'bare minimum' pass we can  
implement to get a useful version of features out to users as quickly  
as possible.

http://chandlerproject.org/Notes/HubCalendarImprovements

On Sep 27, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> 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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