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Side-note on digital calendars: What I'd really like is a continuously scrolling calendar to help with long-ish term planning (3-4 months). Most apps are stuck

Side-note on digital calendars: What I'd really like is a continuously scrolling calendar to help with long-ish term planning (3-4 months). Most apps are stuck in the single-month page view analogy to physical calendars, which for me keeps breaking my mental flow of stringing activities across the boundary/long distances. And I get why (standard behavior/components and user expectations) but it just seems like a missed opportunity. Not sure how many want this but I suspect more would do if they were exposed to it. A few calendar apps allow a stretch of >4 weeks and there's this POC web version: https://madebyevan.com/calendar/app/ https://madebyevan.com/calendar/app/ but all I can do for now is constantly switch from a Gantt app to my calendar app (Thunderbird or Google Calendar).

ginko 4y ago
I hacked up my own little bash script[1] to show the next 3 months with ncal like this: $ mcal June 2022 w| Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 22| 1 2 3 4 5 23| 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 24| 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 25| 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 26| 27 28 29 30 July 2022 w| Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 26| 1 2 3 27| 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 28| 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 29| 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 30| 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 August 2022 w| Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 31| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 32| 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 33| 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 34| 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 35| 29 30 31 [1] https://pastebin.com/BNWynUZT https://pastebin.com/BNWynUZT
- panki27 4y ago
  `ncal -A2` will do the same, but show the months horizontally.
  - sigtstp 4y ago
    I see there's a -v flag for vertical layout which matches horizontal listing better.
    - amrtn 4y ago
      The -v flag didn't work in my WSL. This worked: $ ncal -b -M -A2 June 2022 July 2022 August 2022 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 27 28 29 30 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 29 30 31
      - k4rli 4y ago
        -v didn't work on 12.1.7+nmu3ubuntu1 and -M does nothing seemingly. `ncal -b -A2` looks very good.
        amrtn 4y ago
        -M sets the first day of the week to Monday. If in your locale the weeks already begin on Monday you are not going to see much difference on the output.
        sigtstp 4y ago
        Ah, my bad. I'm on Arch and it packages cal, not ncal. Wasn't familiar with it and it looks like the flags are different. Because why not...
- sigtstp 4y ago
  Neat! I was thinking of hacking something for org-mode (to support creating events and gcal sync) but this is definitely good for quick lookup.
- tragomaskhalos 4y ago
  Not being aware of ncal, but based on long experience of bash, I anticipated a fiendish and impenetrable 300 line monster full of arcana to crank this out from first principles. So this was a very elegant surprise :)
- dotancohen 4y ago
  If you're interested, I can share my khal config with you. It also displays 3 months, and syncs (via vdirsyncer) with Nextcloud to show my personal and work calendar events, all right there in the terminal.
  - kej 4y ago
    Not the person you replied to, but I'm interested and would like more info on your setup.
    - dotancohen 4y ago
      In general, I use vdirsync to sync my contacts and calendars locally, keeping the remote system's values to resolve conflicts as I intend to only read the values from the CLI. Vdirsync uses an application-agnostic format, so I could in theory read from any application that supports standard file formats: $ cat ~/.vdirsyncer/config [general] status_path = "~/.vdirsyncer/status/" # Contacts [storage contacts_personal_local] type = "filesystem" path = "~/.vdirsyncer/contacts/" fileext = ".vcf" [storage contacts_personal_remote] type = "carddav" url = "https://example.com/remote.php/carddav/" username = "bloodninja" password = "hunter2" [pair contacts_personal] a = "contacts_personal_local" b = "contacts_personal_remote" collections = ["from a", "from b"] conflict_resolution = "b wins" # Calendars [storage calendar_personal_local] type = "filesystem" path = "~/.vdirsyncer/calendars/" fileext = ".ics" [storage calendar_personal_remote] type = "caldav" url = "https://example.com/remote.php/caldav/" username = "bloodninja" password = "hunter2" [pair calendars_personal] a = "calendar_personal_local" b = "calendar_personal_remote" collections = ["from a", "from b"] conflict_resolution = "b wins" metadata = ["color"] Then I set up khal to read from the directory that vdirsync stores data in, and display three months with events and use the ISO-8601 date format: $ cat ~/.config/khal/config [calendars] [[personal]] path = ~/.vdirsyncer/calendars/* type = discover [default] default_calendar = personal highlight_event_days = True timedelta = 45d [locale] firstweekday = 6 timeformat = %H:%M dateformat = %Y-%m-%d longdateformat = %Y-%m-%d datetimeformat = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M longdatetimeformat = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M default_timezone = Asia/Jerusalem unicode_symbols = False [highlight_days] color = light green method = fg If you have any questions or suggestions I'll be watching this thread.
- Schiphol 4y ago
  there's also `cal`, in the util-linux package. cal -3 May 2022 June 2022 July 2022 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 1 2 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 30 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
  - the_arun 4y ago
    I remember, in School, our professor asked us to write "cal" command in C in early CS classes. I was a good exercise for us to build interest in programming.
  - Arnavion 4y ago
    `cal -n 3` to be precise, since ginko said "next three months"
- dolmen 4y ago
  On MacOS: $ LANG=C cal -3 May 2022 June 2022 July 2022 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 1 2 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 30 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
  - ginko 4y ago
    Well, cal -3 shows the previous and next month, but I wanted this month and the next two months. I also wanted them arranged vertically and with week numbers. (And with weeks starting on Monday)
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- jayknight 4y ago
  Every year, I use `cal` to generate the calendar like this for the year, paste that into word and do some minor formatting (dim weekends and holidays, bold paydays) and print it and put it on my office wall. I reference it all the time just to re-orient myself to where I am in the month/year, etc.
- aidenn0 4y ago
  Using cal from util-linux; if you are okay with horizontal: cal -w -n3 If you must have vertical: cal -w today; cal -w '+1 month'; cal -w '+2 month' Output: June 2022 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 22 1 2 3 4 5 23 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 24 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 25 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 26 27 28 29 30 July 2022 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 26 1 2 3 27 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 28 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 29 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 30 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 August 2022 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 32 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 33 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 34 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 35 29 30 31
kieckerjan 4y ago
I am a big fan of Dsri Seah's Compact Calendar with its "candy bar of time" layout. Should not be too hard to make a script for that format. https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/ https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/
dmd 4y ago
If you're on MacOS/iOS, "Fantastical" is ... fantastic in this way.
- eddieroger 4y ago
  Another vote here for Fantastical. I don't think I'm using it in any novel ways, or really pushing it's power, but wow is it a nice calendar. My only gripe, and probably something I can change in a setting, is sometimes when I have a drought of events, it can be confusing what's next, because it will show me something a month or so out but not in a clear way that the event it is showing me isn't tomorrow. Probably a "me" problem, but one of my few gripes about the app - the other being a desire for better Watch complications.
- nyuszika7h 4y ago
  Not a fan of the subscription model. Features that don't incur ongoing costs (e.g. server costs) to the developers should not be locked behind a subscription IMO.
  - Cockbrand 4y ago
    Agreed, it's too bad that it's subscription only now. I bought Fantastical for Mac ages ago, and when they added the subscription model, I didn't lose any features.
bornon5 4y ago
Fastmail’s calendar does exactly this - infinite continuous scroll - and I love it. I also find it constricting when I use another calendar (Google Calendar, for instance) that paginates by month. Edit: An image of the Fastmail calendar: https://www.fastmail.com/images/features/cal-1.png https://www.fastmail.com/images/features/cal-1.png
- noSyncCloud 4y ago
  Changing months in GCal is so disorienting. Scroll a pixel too far while planning, and the month you were looking at just... vanishes?
manwe150 4y ago
Google Calendar has a setting to enable a 3-4 week forward view from any date. Not quite infinite scrolling, but it is what I use as my default view.
andsoitis 4y ago
> What I'd really like is a continuously scrolling calendar to help with long-ish term planning (3-4 months). The iOS calendar works this way (if I understand your use case properly). At the top right is a back arrow, which, if you're in a more granular view (say, for a day or a week), will take you a view where you can scroll through all months, and if you go back one more time, scroll through all years. From one of these "zoomed out" views, you can dive back into any more detailed view.
- ghostly_s 4y ago
  Yes, but unfortunately this view does not show any of your appointments.
k_g_b_ 4y ago
I'm using a aCalendar+ on Android and the monthly view has continuous scrolling, though given the constraints of a phone screen I only get 6 weeks displayed at once.
yboris 4y ago
My favorite paper calendar shows the whole year in one sheet: https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/ https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/ It has wide margin on the right for notes; gives you long-term-planning potential ;)
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tingletech 4y ago
I wrote something like that https://github.com/tingletech/tingcal https://github.com/tingletech/tingcal
reality_inspctr 4y ago
show hn: we are doing this at @sundialcalendar, with whole-life activity forecasting
tehno 4y ago
One of the most compact alternative calendar styles I've seen is like this: M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 29 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Months are offset so weekdays of columns are matching row to row. Looks nicer and more understandable also with weekend columns colored differently. I have a super simple HTML/JS/CSS variant of it on Gist here: https://gist.github.com/erkiesken/54bdbc069ba7df21eab6e4e4808f56a5#file-calendar-html https://gist.github.com/erkiesken/54bdbc069ba7df21eab6e4e480...
- Macha 4y ago
  The one problem then is with that style of calendar compared to the traditional month view is I need to calculate for e.g. "what is the date of Thursday in 3 weeks?"
  - jayknight 4y ago
    Also, which line is June? What day of the week is the 4th of July on this year?
    - otikik 4y ago
mxfh 4y ago
At least german office culture knows of a quite popular 3-month format in a physical printed wall calendar, usually highlighting the current month and showing the preciding and following months with less contrast. They are distributed for free or very low cost as promotional product for any type of business. From my understanding Bürokalender as in office calendar is often used synonymously for this format in Germany, which can be seen as an indicator to it's ubiquity. The format seems not to be that popular, elsewhere but at least in the UK it's marketed as shipping calendar, which was the use case for what it was invented for in 1937 by B. C. Heye & Co., now terminic GmbH https://www.terminic-uk.eu/company https://www.terminic-uk.eu/company There are even versions showing 4 to 6 Months in a vertical layout. https://www.printas.com/en/4-month-calendar/ https://www.printas.com/en/4-month-calendar/ going up to eight months: https://www.terminic.eu/monatskalender https://www.terminic.eu/monatskalender
- april_22 4y ago
  I find this layot very useful, especially with the little red square to see what day it is.
  - april_22 4y ago
    *layout
- dolmen 4y ago
  cal -3
  - ghusbands 4y ago
    The horizontal layout of cal doesn't have the same benefits.
- sitting_duck 4y ago
  Really ubiquitous in German offices, in any industry. Thanks for letting me know where it came from.
Bluecobra 4y ago
I hate this as well, it's one of the reasons I am clinging on to using Outlook in Windows. It seems like they are going to remove this eventually as the Outlook client for Mac and web does not allow calendar scrolling. :(
- ghostly_s 4y ago
  the Mac and web clients have always had wildly divergent feature-sets, I wouldn't take them as harbingers of the future of Outlook at large.
avivo 4y ago
This is one of those brilliant little things that I just want to see everywhere.
ironrabbit 4y ago
are there any continuous calendars like the linked one that allow sync or import from google cal?
jamesfisher 4y ago
I wrote about something similar a few years ago! [1] I'd be interested in hacking something together one day. I imagine it would display your Google Calendar events, in a format reminiscent of Google Calendar, but where the smallest cell is a week. 1: https://jameshfisher.com/2017/06/06/long-calendar/ https://jameshfisher.com/2017/06/06/long-calendar/
wnolens 4y ago
I tried to build this once but found myself basically rebuilding Google calendar for visual changes which iCal mostly did quite well. And front end is not my expertise so it was a grind. I wanted both infinite scrolling with no month breaks, as well as the ability to fluidly zoom out to see multiple months worth. Someday. I'd be willing to put the work in if a front end expert wants to help!
sharat87 4y ago
Hey, you may like my Just a Calendar: https://cal.sharats.me https://cal.sharats.me Months are laid out in clean no-nonsense way, and it's a very lightweight app. You can click on dates to mark them to get some bearings while planning things on a Calendar, kinda like pointing a pen at a date. Drag to mark multiple dates too! No logins, no extra engagement features, and nothing much. Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30851174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30851174
mbesto 4y ago
Fantastical offers Quarter view now: https://flexibits.com/blog/2022/02/fantastical-scheduling-arrives-with-version-3-6-openings-proposals-and-quarters/ https://flexibits.com/blog/2022/02/fantastical-scheduling-ar...
sfitz 4y ago
Cron does this - cron.com
wiredfool 4y ago
Yep, I want the next 6-8 weeks, with no month breaks, in a block. Calendar.app on the desktop in Big Sur is almost there, but there's no way to keep the current week on the top, as it defaults to the current month. On iOS, there'a a gap week. I used to do these by hand when in school, because I didn't want assignments hiding on the next page.
vel0city 4y ago
FWIW the built-in calendar function on the Windows Taskbar for a while has this continuously scrolling functionality. Click the current time on the taskbar and it'll open a calendar view. Scroll on the calendar and it'll scroll by the week. Click on a day and if you've connected a calendar to your Windows account it'll show events on that day.
ausaus 4y ago
Vacation Days for Android by Ingmania had the best year view I have seen on mobile.

ginko 4y ago

I hacked up my own little bash script[1] to show the next 3 months with ncal like this: $ mcal June 2022 w| Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 22| 1 2 3 4 5 23| 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 24| 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 25| 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 26| 27 28 29 30 July 2022 w| Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 26| 1 2 3 27| 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 28| 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 29| 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 30| 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 August 2022 w| Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 31| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 32| 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 33| 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 34| 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 35| 29 30 31 [1] https://pastebin.com/BNWynUZT https://pastebin.com/BNWynUZT

panki27 4y ago
`ncal -A2` will do the same, but show the months horizontally.
- sigtstp 4y ago
  I see there's a -v flag for vertical layout which matches horizontal listing better.
  - amrtn 4y ago
    The -v flag didn't work in my WSL. This worked: $ ncal -b -M -A2 June 2022 July 2022 August 2022 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 27 28 29 30 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 29 30 31
    - k4rli 4y ago
      -v didn't work on 12.1.7+nmu3ubuntu1 and -M does nothing seemingly. `ncal -b -A2` looks very good.
      - amrtn 4y ago
        -M sets the first day of the week to Monday. If in your locale the weeks already begin on Monday you are not going to see much difference on the output.
      - sigtstp 4y ago
        Ah, my bad. I'm on Arch and it packages cal, not ncal. Wasn't familiar with it and it looks like the flags are different. Because why not...
sigtstp 4y ago
Neat! I was thinking of hacking something for org-mode (to support creating events and gcal sync) but this is definitely good for quick lookup.
tragomaskhalos 4y ago
Not being aware of ncal, but based on long experience of bash, I anticipated a fiendish and impenetrable 300 line monster full of arcana to crank this out from first principles. So this was a very elegant surprise :)
dotancohen 4y ago
If you're interested, I can share my khal config with you. It also displays 3 months, and syncs (via vdirsyncer) with Nextcloud to show my personal and work calendar events, all right there in the terminal.
- kej 4y ago
  Not the person you replied to, but I'm interested and would like more info on your setup.
  - dotancohen 4y ago
    In general, I use vdirsync to sync my contacts and calendars locally, keeping the remote system's values to resolve conflicts as I intend to only read the values from the CLI. Vdirsync uses an application-agnostic format, so I could in theory read from any application that supports standard file formats: $ cat ~/.vdirsyncer/config [general] status_path = "~/.vdirsyncer/status/" # Contacts [storage contacts_personal_local] type = "filesystem" path = "~/.vdirsyncer/contacts/" fileext = ".vcf" [storage contacts_personal_remote] type = "carddav" url = "https://example.com/remote.php/carddav/" username = "bloodninja" password = "hunter2" [pair contacts_personal] a = "contacts_personal_local" b = "contacts_personal_remote" collections = ["from a", "from b"] conflict_resolution = "b wins" # Calendars [storage calendar_personal_local] type = "filesystem" path = "~/.vdirsyncer/calendars/" fileext = ".ics" [storage calendar_personal_remote] type = "caldav" url = "https://example.com/remote.php/caldav/" username = "bloodninja" password = "hunter2" [pair calendars_personal] a = "calendar_personal_local" b = "calendar_personal_remote" collections = ["from a", "from b"] conflict_resolution = "b wins" metadata = ["color"] Then I set up khal to read from the directory that vdirsync stores data in, and display three months with events and use the ISO-8601 date format: $ cat ~/.config/khal/config [calendars] [[personal]] path = ~/.vdirsyncer/calendars/* type = discover [default] default_calendar = personal highlight_event_days = True timedelta = 45d [locale] firstweekday = 6 timeformat = %H:%M dateformat = %Y-%m-%d longdateformat = %Y-%m-%d datetimeformat = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M longdatetimeformat = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M default_timezone = Asia/Jerusalem unicode_symbols = False [highlight_days] color = light green method = fg If you have any questions or suggestions I'll be watching this thread.
Schiphol 4y ago
there's also `cal`, in the util-linux package. cal -3 May 2022 June 2022 July 2022 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 1 2 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 30 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
- the_arun 4y ago
  I remember, in School, our professor asked us to write "cal" command in C in early CS classes. I was a good exercise for us to build interest in programming.
- Arnavion 4y ago
  `cal -n 3` to be precise, since ginko said "next three months"
dolmen 4y ago
On MacOS: $ LANG=C cal -3 May 2022 June 2022 July 2022 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 1 2 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 30 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
- ginko 4y ago
  Well, cal -3 shows the previous and next month, but I wanted this month and the next two months. I also wanted them arranged vertically and with week numbers. (And with weeks starting on Monday)
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jayknight 4y ago
Every year, I use `cal` to generate the calendar like this for the year, paste that into word and do some minor formatting (dim weekends and holidays, bold paydays) and print it and put it on my office wall. I reference it all the time just to re-orient myself to where I am in the month/year, etc.
aidenn0 4y ago
Using cal from util-linux; if you are okay with horizontal: cal -w -n3 If you must have vertical: cal -w today; cal -w '+1 month'; cal -w '+2 month' Output: June 2022 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 22 1 2 3 4 5 23 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 24 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 25 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 26 27 28 29 30 July 2022 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 26 1 2 3 27 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 28 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 29 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 30 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 August 2022 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 32 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 33 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 34 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 35 29 30 31

kieckerjan 4y ago

I am a big fan of Dsri Seah's Compact Calendar with its "candy bar of time" layout. Should not be too hard to make a script for that format. https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/ https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/

dmd 4y ago

If you're on MacOS/iOS, "Fantastical" is ... fantastic in this way.

eddieroger 4y ago
Another vote here for Fantastical. I don't think I'm using it in any novel ways, or really pushing it's power, but wow is it a nice calendar. My only gripe, and probably something I can change in a setting, is sometimes when I have a drought of events, it can be confusing what's next, because it will show me something a month or so out but not in a clear way that the event it is showing me isn't tomorrow. Probably a "me" problem, but one of my few gripes about the app - the other being a desire for better Watch complications.
nyuszika7h 4y ago
Not a fan of the subscription model. Features that don't incur ongoing costs (e.g. server costs) to the developers should not be locked behind a subscription IMO.
- Cockbrand 4y ago
  Agreed, it's too bad that it's subscription only now. I bought Fantastical for Mac ages ago, and when they added the subscription model, I didn't lose any features.

bornon5 4y ago

Fastmail’s calendar does exactly this - infinite continuous scroll - and I love it. I also find it constricting when I use another calendar (Google Calendar, for instance) that paginates by month. Edit: An image of the Fastmail calendar: https://www.fastmail.com/images/features/cal-1.png https://www.fastmail.com/images/features/cal-1.png

noSyncCloud 4y ago
Changing months in GCal is so disorienting. Scroll a pixel too far while planning, and the month you were looking at just... vanishes?

manwe150 4y ago

Google Calendar has a setting to enable a 3-4 week forward view from any date. Not quite infinite scrolling, but it is what I use as my default view.

andsoitis 4y ago

> What I'd really like is a continuously scrolling calendar to help with long-ish term planning (3-4 months). The iOS calendar works this way (if I understand your use case properly). At the top right is a back arrow, which, if you're in a more granular view (say, for a day or a week), will take you a view where you can scroll through all months, and if you go back one more time, scroll through all years. From one of these "zoomed out" views, you can dive back into any more detailed view.

ghostly_s 4y ago
Yes, but unfortunately this view does not show any of your appointments.

k_g_b_ 4y ago

I'm using a aCalendar+ on Android and the monthly view has continuous scrolling, though given the constraints of a phone screen I only get 6 weeks displayed at once.

yboris 4y ago

My favorite paper calendar shows the whole year in one sheet: https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/ https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/ It has wide margin on the right for notes; gives you long-term-planning potential ;)

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tingletech 4y ago

I wrote something like that https://github.com/tingletech/tingcal https://github.com/tingletech/tingcal

reality_inspctr 4y ago

show hn: we are doing this at @sundialcalendar, with whole-life activity forecasting

tehno 4y ago

One of the most compact alternative calendar styles I've seen is like this: M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 29 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Months are offset so weekdays of columns are matching row to row. Looks nicer and more understandable also with weekend columns colored differently. I have a super simple HTML/JS/CSS variant of it on Gist here: https://gist.github.com/erkiesken/54bdbc069ba7df21eab6e4e4808f56a5#file-calendar-html https://gist.github.com/erkiesken/54bdbc069ba7df21eab6e4e480...

Macha 4y ago
The one problem then is with that style of calendar compared to the traditional month view is I need to calculate for e.g. "what is the date of Thursday in 3 weeks?"
- jayknight 4y ago
  Also, which line is June? What day of the week is the 4th of July on this year?
  - otikik 4y ago

mxfh 4y ago

At least german office culture knows of a quite popular 3-month format in a physical printed wall calendar, usually highlighting the current month and showing the preciding and following months with less contrast. They are distributed for free or very low cost as promotional product for any type of business. From my understanding Bürokalender as in office calendar is often used synonymously for this format in Germany, which can be seen as an indicator to it's ubiquity. The format seems not to be that popular, elsewhere but at least in the UK it's marketed as shipping calendar, which was the use case for what it was invented for in 1937 by B. C. Heye & Co., now terminic GmbH https://www.terminic-uk.eu/company https://www.terminic-uk.eu/company There are even versions showing 4 to 6 Months in a vertical layout. https://www.printas.com/en/4-month-calendar/ https://www.printas.com/en/4-month-calendar/ going up to eight months: https://www.terminic.eu/monatskalender https://www.terminic.eu/monatskalender

april_22 4y ago
I find this layot very useful, especially with the little red square to see what day it is.
- april_22 4y ago
  *layout
dolmen 4y ago
cal -3
- ghusbands 4y ago
  The horizontal layout of cal doesn't have the same benefits.
sitting_duck 4y ago
Really ubiquitous in German offices, in any industry. Thanks for letting me know where it came from.

Bluecobra 4y ago

I hate this as well, it's one of the reasons I am clinging on to using Outlook in Windows. It seems like they are going to remove this eventually as the Outlook client for Mac and web does not allow calendar scrolling. :(

ghostly_s 4y ago
the Mac and web clients have always had wildly divergent feature-sets, I wouldn't take them as harbingers of the future of Outlook at large.

avivo 4y ago

This is one of those brilliant little things that I just want to see everywhere.

ironrabbit 4y ago

are there any continuous calendars like the linked one that allow sync or import from google cal?

jamesfisher 4y ago

I wrote about something similar a few years ago! [1] I'd be interested in hacking something together one day. I imagine it would display your Google Calendar events, in a format reminiscent of Google Calendar, but where the smallest cell is a week. 1: https://jameshfisher.com/2017/06/06/long-calendar/ https://jameshfisher.com/2017/06/06/long-calendar/

wnolens 4y ago

I tried to build this once but found myself basically rebuilding Google calendar for visual changes which iCal mostly did quite well. And front end is not my expertise so it was a grind. I wanted both infinite scrolling with no month breaks, as well as the ability to fluidly zoom out to see multiple months worth. Someday. I'd be willing to put the work in if a front end expert wants to help!

sharat87 4y ago

Hey, you may like my Just a Calendar: https://cal.sharats.me https://cal.sharats.me Months are laid out in clean no-nonsense way, and it's a very lightweight app. You can click on dates to mark them to get some bearings while planning things on a Calendar, kinda like pointing a pen at a date. Drag to mark multiple dates too! No logins, no extra engagement features, and nothing much. Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30851174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30851174

mbesto 4y ago

Fantastical offers Quarter view now: https://flexibits.com/blog/2022/02/fantastical-scheduling-arrives-with-version-3-6-openings-proposals-and-quarters/ https://flexibits.com/blog/2022/02/fantastical-scheduling-ar...

sfitz 4y ago

Cron does this - cron.com

wiredfool 4y ago

Yep, I want the next 6-8 weeks, with no month breaks, in a block. Calendar.app on the desktop in Big Sur is almost there, but there's no way to keep the current week on the top, as it defaults to the current month. On iOS, there'a a gap week. I used to do these by hand when in school, because I didn't want assignments hiding on the next page.

vel0city 4y ago

FWIW the built-in calendar function on the Windows Taskbar for a while has this continuously scrolling functionality. Click the current time on the taskbar and it'll open a calendar view. Scroll on the calendar and it'll scroll by the week. Click on a day and if you've connected a calendar to your Windows account it'll show events on that day.

ausaus 4y ago

Vacation Days for Android by Ingmania had the best year view I have seen on mobile.