Feb
23
2010
Calendar or TODO ?
Today I found myself using iCal for the first time during last three to four weeks. And it looks like a trend already.
I'm not using calendar any more. I have no need for it. Everything is going to my TODO list. Think about it. Every note in the calendar should require some action, otherwise, it's not worth noting it. Birthday? Send a gift. Meeting? Make sure to arrive in time. Well, the day representation in TODO is often loose to calendar, however, with things like TeuxDeux, it's arguable.
And you still keep the day on schedule. So what about you? P.S. Well, I'm cheating a little bit. I still keep the availability notes for people other than me in the calendar, to make sure that I can adjust my upcoming plans according to theirs schedule as well. However, I should find the solution to this problem shortly, too.
Nov
7
2009
No freakin calendar out there?
Keeping in mind that it's 2009 coming to its end, I'm really surprised to not been able to find any good calendaring software that just integrates everywhere. It's only recently Google has enabled the CalDAV access for iCal, so now, thanks God!, I can manage all my calendars both online and on my Mac laptop.
However, not that fast.
My iPhone (come on, isn't is the greatest thing since sliced bread? :) can sync with iCal (not a decent approach for cloud-computing trending era), but fails to show any other calendars attached to my account. In addition to such a boomer, it gets synced with the weirdest name you can imagine (but who cares). I've also tried setting up a separate CalDAV account for calendar on iPhone as well as establishing Google sync through Exchange protocol - none of these things can show any additional calendars (called delegates in iCal).
So WTF?
Here is an idea. While so trendy cloud-computing managing panels are growing so fast, it looks like people managed to miss very basic things. The managing panel for Mail-AddressBook-Calendar kind of stuff. That has inputs and outputs, and dashboard. Manageable with drag and drop. Say, I want the Google Calendar, Google Mail and Yahoo Address Book (or, screw it, just native Mac Address Book.app). These are inputs. Outputs are connectors to any type of software you can imagine. Dashboard is one screen that allows to work flawlessly with you stuff. That's it. That easy.
Anyone?
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