Version 0.9.29 released.
- Copy, paste events, in Month View, point to the event, long press on it and select "Add to clipboard" (sorry, no recurrent events are allowed to copy in this version) . You will see small icon on the top of application, which means, that event was copied to the clipboard. Next, you can long press on the day, to which you can paste the event. I am sure you will know, what next
Most excellent. I can say, you will need good documentation to go with this app (perhaps a PDF?). I downloaded version 0.9.29 today and saw you had added copying events. After a bit of playing with it I found the "Add to clipboard" option, however, I was unable to find the method to paste. Now that I can read your notes I can 'copy & paste' events appropriately.
If I might suggest, I think once you copy an event to the clipboard you should consider adding another method or two for pasting:
- Option 1: After copying the event, if the user presses Menu->"Add Event", you could present the option to paste if the user presses Menu again within the edit event screen. Currently there is only "Save" and "Today", I think this is a good place for "Paste".
- Option 2: After copying the event, if the user presses Menu->"More" I think "Paste from Clipboard" would fit well with the "My Calendars", "Preferences", etc.
All in all, excellent to see this feature. Without 'templates' (something from the Palm Datebk app), copy and paste is the next best thing.
- Deleting and editing recurrent events, in this version there are two options: All events in the series and This and all future events. I know that Only this event is still missing - I am working on it !
Please keep working on adding "Only this event". I have recurring events that I use to track things on a periodic basis. Being able to edit the current event would allow me to update the event with the new data, then the recurring event continues the next period.
If I might put in my vote for additional feature prioritization, I would ask/vote for the following:
- Additional dots above the monthly dates, although in a way I do not recall seeing mentioned before. Instead of simply more dots to indicate more items on a given day, I think the placement of the dots above the date should indicate the time of the event(s) on that day. A dot in the middle (where they are now) would indicate mid-day (noon-6pm), whereas a dot to the left would indicate morning (6am-noon) and a dot to the right would indicate evening (6pm-10pm). On my Evo, the dots appear perhaps 6x6. I think a pair of 4x4 dots, one to the 'far-left' could indicate early morning (midnight-6am) and one to the 'far-right' could indicate late evening (10pm-midnight).
One example of this would be an event spanning from 6pm Friday through 4pm on Sunday. There would be the "right" 6x6 dot and "far-right" 4x4 dot above Friday, all five dots above Saturday, and the "far left" 4x4 dot and the left & center dots above Sunday.
Of course in a perfect world, those time periods could be adjusted in the preferences...
- More widgets. Or the ability for Gemini Calendar to replace the default calendar. Currently I'm rather fond of the HTC Sense 4x4 calendar widget that shows the current month. Flicks up/down switch to the next/previous month. Clicking on a day brings up the calendar in day view. Clicking on the month name brings up the calendar in month view. The problem is it is the default calendar, I cannot see how to change it to Gemini Calendar.
So while you have a lot of votes on this board for smaller widgets, I would add my voice for a 4x4 widget with your default calendar view (the day's events above the full-month) as the widget itself.
- Icons. Someone else brought it up, I'd second the motion.
- An indicator in the "GeminiCalendar" bar that shows the sync status. Sometimes when I update an event it takes time to sync and I thought the edit didn't 'stick'. I'm thinking now it just takes a moment sometimes to sync to Google and back. An icon that represents 'sync pending' and 'sync in progress' would be great, with no icon showing when sync is complete (or maybe a check mark that goes away after 30 seconds or so). You added the clipboard icon, I think a sync indicator icon is a good idea.
Haven't seen any bugs yet, will email you if I come across any. Stellar for a 'beta' application.
You have the makings of an excellent calendar application here and your ongoing development and attention is well appreciated.
Thank you,
Dave
P.S. And yes, I can be a bit wordy. Hope you don't mind!
