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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Your Calendar Sleek and Clean - IntumiCal 1.0

Posted by Jordan Rosenwald in "SOFTWARE" @ 09:00 AM


Calendar Simplicity
IntumiCal is takes minimalism to heart. On lauching the application you’re greeted by an interface similar to what you’d expect from a calendar program, namely a display with days of the week at the top and a list of times running down the left side. It’s simple. It’s clean.

At the bottom of the screen there’s an Edit menu, for nothing more than Copy/Cut/Paste, and a Help menu, which gives you Options and About. Add to those two menus three buttons for changing the view from day to week to month and a button for deleting an appointment and that’s all the application gives you, at first glance. Like I said, they take minimalism to heart.


Figure 1: The main screen viewed as a daily calendar.

No ‘New’ Is Good ‘New’
First thing I noticed when first launched the app, is no New button. Again, simplicity reigns supreme. To enter a new appointment you enter the appointment on the line closest to the time you want the appointment to take place. If your appointment happens to be at an odd time (say, for example, 2:15pm) write your appointment on the 2:00pm line, then when you’re done, by clicking on the colored bar that now highlights the appointment time, you can drag it down in 15 minute increments to the time you want. This I liked a lot.

By default, meetings are expected to last one hour. If you need longer than that, you can drag the bottom part of the same colored bar down (again in 15 minute increments) to the correct stop time. I liked this too, but even with some practice I found myself occasionally moving the appointment instead of extending its duration.

It’s All In The Details
On the left side of the appointment is a typical list of the hours in the day. The times during which your appointment takes place are highlighted in a color, which can be changed based on options that can be set based on categories. By clicking on the time of your appointment, a pop-up appears where you can set the appointment time, including making it an all day event. One thing I found frustrating here was clicking in the start or end field clears the field so you can fill in your own values. I’d much rather that the time remain and then I could edit the digit(s) that were incorrect.


Figure 2: Changing times with a pop-up.

At the bottom of the pop-up, there’s also a link for “More Details,” which takes you to a well organized screen for adding the typical details for an appointment (notes, location, recurrence, attendees, category, status, and reminder settings). My only bone to pick here is the location field. Instead of a drop down list that has common locations, you’re given nothing more than a text field. This makes common locations time consuming to enter. Hopefully, this is something that will get improved in the next version.


Figure 3: It's all in the details.

While you can add notes and reminders from the detail screen, the author continues to keep streamline in mind. Back on the main application screen, on the right side of the appointment are two boxes. Clicking in the first one brings up a pop-up for setting reminder settings. Clicking in the second quickly takes you back to the detail screen we left just a moment ago, and places your cursor in the Notes field.

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