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iCal Mini

In Cocoa and Mac on 2 July 2007 with 3 comments

I’d been keeping Mail.app closed because it was a big, slow, dumpus, but with the rise of MiniMail, I’ve found I’ve been keeping it open a lot more.

MiniMail made me want to have something like that for iCal, too. Here’s an idea of what it could look like, incorporating the layout of the iPhone’s calendar list view:

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Ideally, it would show To Do items in another pane, perhaps a pane above the appointments list. I didn’t mock that up yet.

If I were further along the path to Mac development proficiency, I’d do it myself. One thing I thought of, though, was that iCal might not support plugins like Mail.app does, and any plugins it did support might break in Leopard. InputManagers would for sure. Maybe, then, this should be an APE haxie.

I’ll let the LazyWeb sort it out for now.


3 Comments

Almost: http://www.benkazez.com/icalevents.php

Comes with a binary to pull data, and has always worked for me.

Posted by Andy Fowler on 2 July 2007 @ 2pm

And, if you don’t care for a Dashboard widget (which I’ve found sluggish with my heavily loaded calendars) I’d also recommend http://www.icalviewer.com which is not quite what you’re looking for, but a very interesting take on displaying calendar info on the desktop (and it’s free if you don’t need to display to-do items).

Posted by garoo on 2 July 2007 @ 3pm

Hey Daniel,

I’m actually thinking of starting on a little TODO manager for Mac OS X 10.5 that integrates with iCal and rememberthemilk.com - it wouldn’t be too difficult to turn it into a more generic “Mini iCal”.

Would you be interested in collaborating?

BTW I’m just down the road from you in Anderson SC :-)

Jon.

Posted by Jonathan Wight on 31 July 2007 @ 12pm

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