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Any.do Cal

70 points by makeramen 13y ago

benaiah 13y ago
This could be really huge for me. I've tried using Google Calendar to get Google Now, but none of the todo apps I prefer sync with it, and Google Now isn't that useful on a Wifi-only tablet anyway. EDIT: Wow. This is the best-designed (both looks and interaction) calendar app I've ever used. Everything you want is immediately available - maps show up if an event has a location (wish you could switch to Google maps instead of Apple maps, but no biggie), instant contact buttons show up if a contact is recognized at an event, when you delete a repeating event it asks you if you want to delete all of them, etc, etc, etc. It's taken almost every pain point I've had with other calendar apps and fixed them almost perfectly. The gesture-based navigation is also really good, though a couple of the thresholds need slight adjusting. This is great. Edited again for typos: "which" != "wish"
smd686s 13y ago
<title> tag has a typo.
andreipop 13y ago
I love it, b/c I hate every single calendar app I've ever used to date. Timeline on android version?
dsl 13y ago
I don't understand the big blank iPhone at the top? Edit: Nevermind. Tested in Safari, and it's just broken in Chromium.
- ineedtosleep 13y ago
  The top area is supposed to show/open 1 (or two) movie file(s) through Flash.
  - benaiah 13y ago
    It's not Flash - I have Flashblock, and there is a flash video on the page lower down, but the upper two are some HTML player. Right-clicking them doesn't show the Flash context menu items, which is another giveaway.
- peterhajas 13y ago
  Looks like the site uses Flash.
- qnk 13y ago
  Doesn't work on Firefox either. It's just a see-through iPhone at the top.
hydrozen 13y ago
My main problem with it at first glance is that in the month view it does not highlight which days have events, so you need to click to see if there’s anything on that day.
- anotherbadlogin 13y ago
  Coincidentally, Apple has screwed this up in the iOS 7 version of the calendar too. No more indicators on days with appointments; you have to go into each one and scroll up and down through the entire list of hours. We can hope this is only a beta problem. Then again, they still haven't fixed this in six years: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-iphones-biggest.html http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-i...
EA 13y ago
I can't get my eyes to look at the demo playing on the iPhone. I keep staring at the background video.
markdown 13y ago
It wasn't the technology that made auto-playing video/animations bad. Just because you can now do it with native html rather than flash doesn't make it ok.
- tvon 13y ago
  I don't think people generally care about auto playing if there is no sound. At least I don't.
- jdminhbg 13y ago
  The auto-playing video on this site is Flash, though ... ? <object width="480" height="270" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" id="big-video-vid_flash_api" name="big-video-vid_flash_api" class="vjs-tech" data="http://vjs.zencdn.net/3.0/video-js.swf" style="width: 1208px; height: 679.5px;"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="wmode" value="opaque"><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"><param name="flashvars" value="readyFunction=_V_.flash.onSWFReady&eventProxyFunction=_V_.flash.onSWFEvent&errorEventProxyFunction=_V_.flash.onSWFErrorEvent&autoplay=true&preload=auto&loop=false&muted=false"></object>
  - matchu 13y ago
    It's using a video tag for me; sounds like it fell back to Flash for your browser.
    - jdminhbg 13y ago
      Weird. I'm on the latest stable FF; I only knew it was Flash in the first place because it triggered my Flashblock.
- grimtrigger 13y ago
  I think it looks nice. Why didn't you like it?
BallinBige 13y ago
is this better than UpTo? seems like that is a like of "press"
gnoix 13y ago
Any.do is great. waiting for the android version of Cal
gaoshan 13y ago
I... installed it, came to the prompt about importing your contacts, decided that I didn't want to do that, found that I could not continue setting up the app without doing so, deleted the app.
- bratsche 13y ago
  This is exactly what I did. Too bad, it looked like it might have been a cool app.
- carlsednaoui 13y ago
  Same exact comment. Definitely not giving them access to my contacts. I rather pay for an app than spam my contacts.
- kcthota 13y ago
  exactly what I did..don't want to grant access to my corp calendar..not sure if it would copy my schedule to their servers... Do not want to give it access to my contacts.. deleted the app.
  - sspross 13y ago
    same here...
- anotherbadlogin 13y ago
  Wow, that kills the whole app. WTF does it need your contacts for? If I'm going to have lunch next week with my friend Dan, I'm going to type "Call Dan" as the appointment and be done with it. I'm not going to laboriously select a particular Dan from the several I know out of my contacts, whether they're integrated into the app or not. This is a stupid decision. Also: What does this have to do with the Dominican Republic?
gohrt 13y ago
How is it free? Are there ads? Is the project a portfolio-demo for an agency? Are they hoping to get bought out by Apple/Google, and then replace the app with a knock-off version discombobulated by the whims VPs and PMs? Ah, the price is giving the devs a copy of my address book. To sell? rent? analyze?
- antidaily 13y ago
  17 person team! That's a lot of payroll.
  - colmvp 13y ago
    Indeed. Surely they must have more than one project in parallel.
- anix 13y ago
  well, as the aphorism goes — if the product is free, then you are the product
cppcho 13y ago
I played around it for 5 mins and deceided to delete it. Too fancy. Fantastical is much better IMO
8ig8 13y ago
Since we're talking calendar apps, thought I'd post this thing from Teehan+Lax called Upcoming. It's a calendar UI experiment. I'm not sure they nailed it, but it is great to see people trying new approaches... http://labs.teehanlax.com/project/upcoming http://labs.teehanlax.com/project/upcoming
- cookrn 13y ago
  Not nearly as experimental as Upcoming, but Sunrise http://www.sunrise.am/ http://www.sunrise.am/ has been my goto for a while now. A bit buggy but pretty, functional, and improving.
aymeric 13y ago
For anyone looking for a todo + calendar style app, http://weekplan.net http://weekplan.net is inspired by the 7 habits of Highly Effective People. (I am the developer of the app)
6thSigma 13y ago
I really like Any.do but if you download it and sync it across the web via the Chrome extension, don't be surprised when a bunch of random tasks show up on your manager. I emailed them about it and they said tasks are added as part of the tutorial and that it's intended functionality. I thought that was kind of weird.
sengstrom 13y ago
cute url but what a turn-off with the iphone.
joelrunyon 13y ago
I set it up (and allowed access to my contacts), but it only shows me like 5 people when I try to add events/tasks with a person. Am I doing something wrong?
Void_ 13y ago
So, I guess, blurred background image is not cool anymore.
pearjuice 13y ago
Great looking app and all, but it assumes you have good looking contacts AND high-resolution pictures of them. I wonder what visual effect it will have without all those fancy photographs of both people and scenery.
- Leander_B 13y ago
  This! I personally really can't stand these apps anymore who only show us the best case scenario design on their website or screenshots. I have exactly 0 photos assigned to contacts on my phone. Also, why is there a picture of a city at night for the 'woodwork workshop'. Makes sense, huh? We're not all hispters.
Joeboy 13y ago
I installed http://radicale.org http://radicale.org on my server, http://acal.me/wiki/Building_aCal http://acal.me/wiki/Building_aCal on my android phone and the Lightning extension for Thunderbird on my laptop. Seems fine so far.
- StavrosK 13y ago
  Hey, radicale looks pretty nice, thanks for the tip.

70 points by makeramen 13y ago

This could be really huge for me. I've tried using Google Calendar to get Google Now, but none of the todo apps I prefer sync with it, and Google Now isn't that useful on a Wifi-only tablet anyway. EDIT: Wow. This is the best-designed (both looks and interaction) calendar app I've ever used. Everything you want is immediately available - maps show up if an event has a location (wish you could switch to Google maps instead of Apple maps, but no biggie), instant contact buttons show up if a contact is recognized at an event, when you delete a repeating event it asks you if you want to delete all of them, etc, etc, etc. It's taken almost every pain point I've had with other calendar apps and fixed them almost perfectly. The gesture-based navigation is also really good, though a couple of the thresholds need slight adjusting. This is great. Edited again for typos: "which" != "wish"

smd686s 13y ago

<title> tag has a typo.

andreipop 13y ago

I love it, b/c I hate every single calendar app I've ever used to date. Timeline on android version?

dsl 13y ago

I don't understand the big blank iPhone at the top? Edit: Nevermind. Tested in Safari, and it's just broken in Chromium.

ineedtosleep 13y ago
The top area is supposed to show/open 1 (or two) movie file(s) through Flash.
- benaiah 13y ago
  It's not Flash - I have Flashblock, and there is a flash video on the page lower down, but the upper two are some HTML player. Right-clicking them doesn't show the Flash context menu items, which is another giveaway.
peterhajas 13y ago
Looks like the site uses Flash.
qnk 13y ago
Doesn't work on Firefox either. It's just a see-through iPhone at the top.

hydrozen 13y ago

My main problem with it at first glance is that in the month view it does not highlight which days have events, so you need to click to see if there’s anything on that day.

anotherbadlogin 13y ago
Coincidentally, Apple has screwed this up in the iOS 7 version of the calendar too. No more indicators on days with appointments; you have to go into each one and scroll up and down through the entire list of hours. We can hope this is only a beta problem. Then again, they still haven't fixed this in six years: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-iphones-biggest.html http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-i...

EA 13y ago

I can't get my eyes to look at the demo playing on the iPhone. I keep staring at the background video.

markdown 13y ago

It wasn't the technology that made auto-playing video/animations bad. Just because you can now do it with native html rather than flash doesn't make it ok.

tvon 13y ago
I don't think people generally care about auto playing if there is no sound. At least I don't.
jdminhbg 13y ago
The auto-playing video on this site is Flash, though ... ? <object width="480" height="270" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" id="big-video-vid_flash_api" name="big-video-vid_flash_api" class="vjs-tech" data="http://vjs.zencdn.net/3.0/video-js.swf" style="width: 1208px; height: 679.5px;"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="wmode" value="opaque"><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"><param name="flashvars" value="readyFunction=_V_.flash.onSWFReady&eventProxyFunction=_V_.flash.onSWFEvent&errorEventProxyFunction=_V_.flash.onSWFErrorEvent&autoplay=true&preload=auto&loop=false&muted=false"></object>
- matchu 13y ago
  It's using a video tag for me; sounds like it fell back to Flash for your browser.
  - jdminhbg 13y ago
    Weird. I'm on the latest stable FF; I only knew it was Flash in the first place because it triggered my Flashblock.
grimtrigger 13y ago
I think it looks nice. Why didn't you like it?

BallinBige 13y ago

is this better than UpTo? seems like that is a like of "press"

gnoix 13y ago

Any.do is great. waiting for the android version of Cal

gaoshan 13y ago

I... installed it, came to the prompt about importing your contacts, decided that I didn't want to do that, found that I could not continue setting up the app without doing so, deleted the app.

bratsche 13y ago
This is exactly what I did. Too bad, it looked like it might have been a cool app.
carlsednaoui 13y ago
Same exact comment. Definitely not giving them access to my contacts. I rather pay for an app than spam my contacts.
kcthota 13y ago
exactly what I did..don't want to grant access to my corp calendar..not sure if it would copy my schedule to their servers... Do not want to give it access to my contacts.. deleted the app.
- sspross 13y ago
  same here...
anotherbadlogin 13y ago
Wow, that kills the whole app. WTF does it need your contacts for? If I'm going to have lunch next week with my friend Dan, I'm going to type "Call Dan" as the appointment and be done with it. I'm not going to laboriously select a particular Dan from the several I know out of my contacts, whether they're integrated into the app or not. This is a stupid decision. Also: What does this have to do with the Dominican Republic?

gohrt 13y ago

How is it free? Are there ads? Is the project a portfolio-demo for an agency? Are they hoping to get bought out by Apple/Google, and then replace the app with a knock-off version discombobulated by the whims VPs and PMs? Ah, the price is giving the devs a copy of my address book. To sell? rent? analyze?

antidaily 13y ago
17 person team! That's a lot of payroll.
- colmvp 13y ago
  Indeed. Surely they must have more than one project in parallel.
anix 13y ago
well, as the aphorism goes — if the product is free, then you are the product

cppcho 13y ago

I played around it for 5 mins and deceided to delete it. Too fancy. Fantastical is much better IMO

8ig8 13y ago

Since we're talking calendar apps, thought I'd post this thing from Teehan+Lax called Upcoming. It's a calendar UI experiment. I'm not sure they nailed it, but it is great to see people trying new approaches... http://labs.teehanlax.com/project/upcoming http://labs.teehanlax.com/project/upcoming

cookrn 13y ago
Not nearly as experimental as Upcoming, but Sunrise http://www.sunrise.am/ http://www.sunrise.am/ has been my goto for a while now. A bit buggy but pretty, functional, and improving.

aymeric 13y ago

For anyone looking for a todo + calendar style app, http://weekplan.net http://weekplan.net is inspired by the 7 habits of Highly Effective People. (I am the developer of the app)

6thSigma 13y ago

I really like Any.do but if you download it and sync it across the web via the Chrome extension, don't be surprised when a bunch of random tasks show up on your manager. I emailed them about it and they said tasks are added as part of the tutorial and that it's intended functionality. I thought that was kind of weird.

sengstrom 13y ago

cute url but what a turn-off with the iphone.

joelrunyon 13y ago

I set it up (and allowed access to my contacts), but it only shows me like 5 people when I try to add events/tasks with a person. Am I doing something wrong?

Void_ 13y ago

So, I guess, blurred background image is not cool anymore.

pearjuice 13y ago

Great looking app and all, but it assumes you have good looking contacts AND high-resolution pictures of them. I wonder what visual effect it will have without all those fancy photographs of both people and scenery.

Leander_B 13y ago
This! I personally really can't stand these apps anymore who only show us the best case scenario design on their website or screenshots. I have exactly 0 photos assigned to contacts on my phone. Also, why is there a picture of a city at night for the 'woodwork workshop'. Makes sense, huh? We're not all hispters.

Joeboy 13y ago

I installed http://radicale.org http://radicale.org on my server, http://acal.me/wiki/Building_aCal http://acal.me/wiki/Building_aCal on my android phone and the Lightning extension for Thunderbird on my laptop. Seems fine so far.

StavrosK 13y ago
Hey, radicale looks pretty nice, thanks for the tip.