A Calendar with a Location


Abstract:
More than just events.

Body:
When scheduling events on my calendar, one thing I always find tricky is remembering where I physically am at a particular time of the day. For most people I imagine this isn't a problem: they're at home in the morning, at work or school during the day, and then at home at night if they don't have any events. But for several reasons my location varies greatly each day, and how I schedule events depends largely on where I am throughout the day. I could schedule events like "@location: school" to help me recall my location, but this gets messy when there are lots of events. A better solution would be to allow me to color the background of my calendar. For example, if I will be at a satellite campus from 1400-1600 on Tuesday, I could program the calendar so that every Tuesday from 1400 to 1600 the background will appear yellow. When I'm at work, it might appear green, and when I'm at home, blue. Then at a glance I could see where I will be when and more easily schedule events without thinking about what my location will be.

I use iCal, but I'd probably switch to just about any good calendar with this feature. I don't know of any existing one, so consider this a consumer's cry for a product, free or shareware (if I had the time, I might even try creating it myself as an add-on to an existing calendar program).

Posted: Mon - March 5, 2007 at 06:29 PM         |    

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