I open-sourced my calendar after 2 years
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I started working on this project because I needed a better way to stay on top of my schedule and tasks. As a minimalist, I wanted it to be simple and smooth. I spent the next two years building the foundational features, like OAuth, sessions, Gcal sync, drag-and-drop, and recurring events.
I gave it a helluva shot, but I didn't finish making my dream calendar. But now that my code is public, maybe you can make yours. Thanks to the MIT license, you could even fork it, add your spin to it, charge for it, and grow it into a great business.All I ask is that you let me know once it's ready so I can finally stop using my Google Calendar
"simple and smooth." ... "2 years" ... long feature list... Gives a kinda contradictory vibe :)
Calendar stuff gets grotty quick, we're holding a huge set of conventions and expectations so deep that we have trouble articulating them. We know what we expect from a calendar: we can see when they fail; but its difficult to visualize or explain what they should be doing instead.
Been playing with generating calendars to help me see the darkest night hours, there's lovely libraries to do all the difficult bits for me, all my data is to hand; and I'm kinda stumped at how to show it in a form that fits into those almost subconscious conventions.
Curious to learn more about your calendars. I don't quite understand what you mean by 'see the darkest night hours' or 'all my data is to hand.'
It sounds like you're interested in new ways to visualize calendars, compared to the traditional grids. You might enjoy checking out Lightpad or Circular calendars. They represent time in a more real form, but I've struggled to use them day-to-day.
https://www.producthunt.com/products/lightpad https://www.theroundmethod.com/pages/circular-calendar
im making sofware that generates pretty html calendars displaying this in normal almanac type forms. I'm trying to make it easier to see "at glance" which nights are darkest, or when the darkness lasts longest, for things like astro-photography... or which nights are best lit for hunting.
The data is the easy part. Deciding how to show it in a way that makes sense and doesnt require effort to decode, that's hard. The sublime ease with which we read conventional calendars is amazing.