Windows Phone Thoughts: Your Calendar Sleek and Clean - IntumiCal 1.0

Options and Views
Options... Well there really aren't many. You can choose whether tasks (all-day events) are visible in the day, week or monthly views, and you can set the color (with some impressive level of granularity) that you want appointment categories to be.


Figure 4: That's it? Those are all the options?

Here are a some screen shots of the week and month view.





Conclusions
There's a lot to love about IntumiCal. It’s a solid application with a strong eye towards sleek, simple input. It does, however, have a few key drawbacks that need to be overcome to be a serious contender. First, without a Today plug-in or a New button, normally found on practically every screen, the accessibility of the application is reduced to button assignment. While I’m ok with assigning a button to the application (it is meant to replace the built-in calendar, after all), I most frequently access my calendar by tapping on my Today plug-in (which happens to be Calendar+). Hitting a button to enter my calendar application isn’t something I want to retrain myself to do, and I don’t think most people will want to either.

Second, the Location field really needs a simple and effective way to enter common meeting locations. Given the attention to detail found throughout the application, I have faith that this was either an oversight or a planned improvement for future versions.

Third, also having to do with location. I know I rarely ever have to put anything in my calendar that doesn’t have a location. Some way to enter this information from the main screen would really improve the usability. I’m not sure if another pop-up is the way to go or not, but I do find it a little cumbersome to enter a meeting title then having to enter the detail screen to enter a location.

I have to say that when all is said and done, I really liked this program. But I do find the three shortcomings rather limiting. I have no doubt that they can be overcome in future versions and then I think it will hard to find a cleaner, more accessible and friendly calendar replacement.

Jordan Rosenwald is an information protection analyst in the Philadelphia area.