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I really like this. Maybe it's because I'm Finnish, but it just makes a lot of sense intuitively. Some of the comments I do agree with (syncing with Apple, Goo

by djhn 4y ago

I really like this. Maybe it's because I'm Finnish, but it just makes a lot of sense intuitively. Some of the comments I do agree with (syncing with Apple, Google and Microsoft would be amazing) and hopefully someone is willing to extend the calendar to enable this. Heck, I might have a go myself.

reaktivo 4y ago
I’m genuinely curious to hear why do you think it’s more intuitive because you’re Finnish
- djhn 4y ago
  Reverse engineering my intuition, perhaps it's the order of (mental) operations? Very few calendars treat week numbers as a first class citizen, and most emphasize the day of the week unnecessarily, while putting less emphasis on the information we consider important. Let me elaborate. In Finland there is a heavy reliance on week numbers. When finding a shared free time slot for a meeting you pick a week first. Especially the public sector revolves around weeks and the default user interface is the official desktop paper(!) calendar. What makes most US-based calendars confusing by default is the different Date/Time format. The Finnish written standard is DD.MM.YYYY with the week starting on Monday. Localisation doesn't necessarily help. The British mental model clashes with the Finnish tradition in highlighting the "wrong" pieces of information. In spoken Finnish 'month DD' or 'DD' if you're already looking at the same week is the natural order. The British put a lot of emphasis on the day of the week and the order/formatting is also "wrong": 'DAY DD MONTH'. In the grand mess of global localisation these are tiny details, but many smaller nations, and their citizens, get stubbornly attached to our local peculiarities.
tero 4y ago
Author of calendar.txt here. I found the lack of synchronization a downside of calendar.txt. Drop me a line or add a comment to calendar.txt page if you end up experimenting with synch. A tradeoff with sync to external calendars will be reduced simplicity, reliability and security. Depending on your use case, it might be worth it.

by djhn 4y ago

reaktivo 4y ago

I’m genuinely curious to hear why do you think it’s more intuitive because you’re Finnish

djhn 4y ago
Reverse engineering my intuition, perhaps it's the order of (mental) operations? Very few calendars treat week numbers as a first class citizen, and most emphasize the day of the week unnecessarily, while putting less emphasis on the information we consider important. Let me elaborate. In Finland there is a heavy reliance on week numbers. When finding a shared free time slot for a meeting you pick a week first. Especially the public sector revolves around weeks and the default user interface is the official desktop paper(!) calendar. What makes most US-based calendars confusing by default is the different Date/Time format. The Finnish written standard is DD.MM.YYYY with the week starting on Monday. Localisation doesn't necessarily help. The British mental model clashes with the Finnish tradition in highlighting the "wrong" pieces of information. In spoken Finnish 'month DD' or 'DD' if you're already looking at the same week is the natural order. The British put a lot of emphasis on the day of the week and the order/formatting is also "wrong": 'DAY DD MONTH'. In the grand mess of global localisation these are tiny details, but many smaller nations, and their citizens, get stubbornly attached to our local peculiarities.

tero 4y ago

Author of calendar.txt here. I found the lack of synchronization a downside of calendar.txt. Drop me a line or add a comment to calendar.txt page if you end up experimenting with synch. A tradeoff with sync to external calendars will be reduced simplicity, reliability and security. Depending on your use case, it might be worth it.