This could be really huge for me. I've tried using Google Calendar to get Google Now, but none of the todo apps I prefer sync with it, and Google Now isn't that useful on a Wifi-only tablet anyway.
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Wow. This is the best-designed (both looks and interaction) calendar app I've ever used. Everything you want is immediately available - maps show up if an event has a location (wish you could switch to Google maps instead of Apple maps, but no biggie), instant contact buttons show up if a contact is recognized at an event, when you delete a repeating event it asks you if you want to delete all of them, etc, etc, etc. It's taken almost every pain point I've had with other calendar apps and fixed them almost perfectly. The gesture-based navigation is also really good, though a couple of the thresholds need slight adjusting.
It's not Flash - I have Flashblock, and there is a flash video on the page lower down, but the upper two are some HTML player. Right-clicking them doesn't show the Flash context menu items, which is another giveaway.
My main problem with it at first glance is that in the month view it does not highlight which days have events, so you need to click to see if there’s anything on that day.
Coincidentally, Apple has screwed this up in the iOS 7 version of the calendar too. No more indicators on days with appointments; you have to go into each one and scroll up and down through the entire list of hours.
It wasn't the technology that made auto-playing video/animations bad. Just because you can now do it with native html rather than flash doesn't make it ok.
Wow, that kills the whole app. WTF does it need your contacts for? If I'm going to have lunch next week with my friend Dan, I'm going to type "Call Dan" as the appointment and be done with it. I'm not going to laboriously select a particular Dan from the several I know out of my contacts, whether they're integrated into the app or not.
This is a stupid decision.
Also: What does this have to do with the Dominican Republic?
How is it free?
Are there ads? Is the project a portfolio-demo for an agency? Are they hoping to get bought out by Apple/Google, and then replace the app with a knock-off version discombobulated by the whims VPs and PMs?
Ah, the price is giving the devs a copy of my address book. To sell? rent? analyze?
Since we're talking calendar apps, thought I'd post this thing from Teehan+Lax called Upcoming. It's a calendar UI experiment. I'm not sure they nailed it, but it is great to see people trying new approaches...
Not nearly as experimental as Upcoming, but Sunrise http://www.sunrise.am/ has been my goto for a while now. A bit buggy but pretty, functional, and improving.
For anyone looking for a todo + calendar style app, http://weekplan.net is inspired by the 7 habits of Highly Effective People. (I am the developer of the app)
I really like Any.do but if you download it and sync it across the web via the Chrome extension, don't be surprised when a bunch of random tasks show up on your manager.
I emailed them about it and they said tasks are added as part of the tutorial and that it's intended functionality. I thought that was kind of weird.
Great looking app and all, but it assumes you have good looking contacts AND high-resolution pictures of them. I wonder what visual effect it will have without all those fancy photographs of both people and scenery.
This! I personally really can't stand these apps anymore who only show us the best case scenario design on their website or screenshots. I have exactly 0 photos assigned to contacts on my phone.
Also, why is there a picture of a city at night for the 'woodwork workshop'. Makes sense, huh? We're not all hispters.
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 96.0 ms ] threadEDIT: Wow. This is the best-designed (both looks and interaction) calendar app I've ever used. Everything you want is immediately available - maps show up if an event has a location (wish you could switch to Google maps instead of Apple maps, but no biggie), instant contact buttons show up if a contact is recognized at an event, when you delete a repeating event it asks you if you want to delete all of them, etc, etc, etc. It's taken almost every pain point I've had with other calendar apps and fixed them almost perfectly. The gesture-based navigation is also really good, though a couple of the thresholds need slight adjusting.
This is great.
Edited again for typos: "which" != "wish"
Timeline on android version?
Edit: Nevermind. Tested in Safari, and it's just broken in Chromium.
We can hope this is only a beta problem. Then again, they still haven't fixed this in six years: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-i...
I keep staring at the background video.
installed it,
came to the prompt about importing your contacts,
decided that I didn't want to do that,
found that I could not continue setting up the app without doing so,
deleted the app.
Too bad, it looked like it might have been a cool app.
I rather pay for an app than spam my contacts.
Do not want to give it access to my contacts..
deleted the app.
This is a stupid decision.
Also: What does this have to do with the Dominican Republic?
Ah, the price is giving the devs a copy of my address book. To sell? rent? analyze?
http://labs.teehanlax.com/project/upcoming
I emailed them about it and they said tasks are added as part of the tutorial and that it's intended functionality. I thought that was kind of weird.
Am I doing something wrong?