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From: Pd on 4 Jun 2010 02:45 Warning: Whinge ahead. Every time I try to use iCal in earnest it pisses me off. It just feels like a kindergarten manager has put it together and never actually used it, plus the most useful commands aren't documented. 1. I want to use the keyboard to edit events. Cmd-E to edit, but how do you close the editing window? Not Return, not Enter, not Cmd-W... Not even Cmd-E, that shrinks the window to the "Info" window, which you then have to close with Cmd-I. Undocumented command: Use ESC to close the edit window and save the changes. Counter-intuitive? 2. I want to see all 24 hours. I just want to zoom out to see the tide times I've painstakingly put in, but apparently the only way to do that is to open preferences, change Show 24 hours at a time, close Preferences. That's 13 keystrokes, and having seen that view, I want it back to 18 hours at a time for every day use, another 13 keystrokes. Undocumented command: option scroll wheel zooms the hours displayed. 3. I want rolling weeks, so the week view scrolls by one day at a time. Another preference setting, great. Undocumented command: option-click the arrows at the top Day/Week/Month overrides the scroll by days, so the display jumps a week at a time. Unfortunately, opt-cmd-arrowkey does not. It beeps to tell you the programmer could have made it do the same thing, but was too lazy to bother. Grrr. -- Pd
From: Martin S Taylor on 4 Jun 2010 03:09 Pd wrote > Every time I try to use iCal in earnest it pisses me off. It just feels > like a kindergarten manager has put it together and never actually used > it, plus the most useful commands aren't documented. That's why I switched to BusyCal. > 1. I want to use the keyboard to edit events. > Cmd-E to edit, but how do you close the editing window? Not Return, not > Enter, not Cmd-W... Not even Cmd-E, that shrinks the window to the > "Info" window, which you then have to close with Cmd-I. > Undocumented command: Use ESC to close the edit window and save the > changes. Counter-intuitive? Indeed. BusyCal has all that sorted. > 2. I want to see all 24 hours. > I just want to zoom out to see the tide times I've painstakingly put in, > but apparently the only way to do that is to open preferences, change > Show 24 hours at a time, close Preferences. That's 13 keystrokes, and > having seen that view, I want it back to 18 hours at a time for every > day use, another 13 keystrokes. > Undocumented command: option scroll wheel zooms the hours displayed. BusyCal works the same. I didn't know about the option-scroll; that's quite useful. > 3. I want rolling weeks, so the week view scrolls by one day at a time. > Another preference setting, great. > Undocumented command: option-click the arrows at the top Day/Week/Month > overrides the scroll by days, so the display jumps a week at a time. > Unfortunately, opt-cmd-arrowkey does not. It beeps to tell you the > programmer could have made it do the same thing, but was too lazy to > bother. Grrr. BusyCal loses here; you can't scroll one day at a time. On the other hand you can display two weeks at a time, which I find more useful than one. Hope this helps, commiserations on your whinging. MST
From: Pd on 4 Jun 2010 04:29 Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote: > Pd wrote > > Every time I try to use iCal in earnest it pisses me off. [...] > That's why I switched to BusyCal. [...] > Indeed. BusyCal has all that sorted. If I had $79 spare, I'd be there and solve the husband/wife calendar sharing at the same time. Apple's failing is BusyMac's opportunity. BusyCal uses the same CoreData or whatever as iCal, doesn't it? So you can use iCal to view the calendar as well. I like the idea of a single data repository with multiple access, so third parties can provide a much improved interface. Oh, and a decent list view! Dammit, I need a job. -- Pd
From: Pd on 4 Jun 2010 04:44 Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote: > > BusyCal has all that sorted. Aha! I know this has probably been said before, but no wonder BusyCal is so good: "BusyMac was founded in 2007 by Dave Riggle and John Chaffee. Dave writes the code and John does the marketing. Dave and John have a long history of building great software together dating back to the early 90's when they created Now Up-to-Date." Apple should sack (or redeploy) their iCal team and hire these guys. -- Pd
From: Martin S Taylor on 6 Jun 2010 06:10
Pd wrote > BusyCal uses the same CoreData or whatever as iCal, doesn't it? So you > can use iCal to view the calendar as well. Yes. MST |