Is there a calendar/appointments program that will show me a list of the next n appointments?
Well, having just about sorted out my events/appointments *recording* I now want a 'screen friendly' way of displaying them that will alert me to upcoming appointments without taking up too much screen real estate. My appointments/events will be in an iCalendar file (or at an iCal server) so most programs can see them, however I can't find anything to show them to me as a list of events. So far I have looked at:- Sunbird - no list mode at all, only week, month, next n weeks, not to mention that you can't have just the one pane showing. Evolution - does have a list view but you can't close down all the other panes so only the list is showing. Orage - no list view Osmo - no list view I guess it's not all that difficult to DIY, I already have a little python utility for showing upcoming reminders in the xfce panel. I could adapt this to do something similar in a small terminal window but if there's something out there that can do what I want already I might as well use it. I just want a utility to display the next x events (maybe limited to the next y days) in a simple list - date/event/description - so I can run it as a sticky window visible on all my worktops. -- Chris Green
On 23 Jan 15:31, Chris G wrote:
Well, having just about sorted out my events/appointments *recording* I now want a 'screen friendly' way of displaying them that will alert me to upcoming appointments without taking up too much screen real estate.
My appointments/events will be in an iCalendar file (or at an iCal server) so most programs can see them, however I can't find anything to show them to me as a list of events. So far I have looked at:-
Sunbird - no list mode at all, only week, month, next n weeks, not to mention that you can't have just the one pane showing.
Evolution - does have a list view but you can't close down all the other panes so only the list is showing.
Orage - no list view
Osmo - no list view
I guess it's not all that difficult to DIY, I already have a little python utility for showing upcoming reminders in the xfce panel. I could adapt this to do something similar in a small terminal window but if there's something out there that can do what I want already I might as well use it.
I just want a utility to display the next x events (maybe limited to the next y days) in a simple list - date/event/description - so I can run it as a sticky window visible on all my worktops.
What are you using for the calendar software... and does it not provide an RSS feed... so you could just get something simple that reads the RSS feed and displays the next x items. -- Brett Parker
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 04:06:04PM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
On 23 Jan 15:31, Chris G wrote:
Well, having just about sorted out my events/appointments *recording* I now want a 'screen friendly' way of displaying them that will alert me to upcoming appointments without taking up too much screen real estate.
My appointments/events will be in an iCalendar file (or at an iCal server) so most programs can see them, however I can't find anything to show them to me as a list of events. So far I have looked at:-
Sunbird - no list mode at all, only week, month, next n weeks, not to mention that you can't have just the one pane showing.
Evolution - does have a list view but you can't close down all the other panes so only the list is showing.
Orage - no list view
Osmo - no list view
I guess it's not all that difficult to DIY, I already have a little python utility for showing upcoming reminders in the xfce panel. I could adapt this to do something similar in a small terminal window but if there's something out there that can do what I want already I might as well use it.
I just want a utility to display the next x events (maybe limited to the next y days) in a simple list - date/event/description - so I can run it as a sticky window visible on all my worktops.
What are you using for the calendar software... and does it not provide an RSS feed... so you could just get something simple that reads the RSS feed and displays the next x items.
I'm using Events Calendar 3 in WordPress, I'll take a look to see if that can generate an RSS feed. I've not dipped into the world of RSS before so it's not something that had occurred to me. Can you get simple desktop RSS display programs as opposed to ones that run in a browser? -- Chris Green
At Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:12:42 +0000, Chris G wrote:
I've not dipped into the world of RSS before so it's not something that had occurred to me. Can you get simple desktop RSS display programs as opposed to ones that run in a browser?
Yes, and if RSS were as important as email then browser based feed readers would be just as evil and wrong as webmail. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +----------------------------------------------+ | Support open access to scholarship | | http://freeculture.org/ http://www.doaj.org/ | +----------------------------------------------+
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:39:51PM +0000, Richard Lewis wrote:
Yes, and if RSS were as important as email then browser based feed readers would be just as evil and wrong as webmail.
That doesn't make sense, given that the context of an rss feed is that it is a way of aggregating and displaying (generally) content from the web so having an rss feed reader that is accessed from a web browser is perfectly sensible. As email isn't part of the web, as it's erm, well email. So using the web to read email is /slightly/ less sane but does make sense in that you don't have to configure an email client locally each time you want to read email so it still kinda works (but not as nicely as having a properly configured email client). Adam -- New signature required, suggestions on a post card please.
At Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:54:54 +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:39:51PM +0000, Richard Lewis wrote:
Yes, and if RSS were as important as email then browser based feed readers would be just as evil and wrong as webmail.
That doesn't make sense, given that the context of an rss feed is that it is a way of aggregating and displaying (generally) content from the web so having an rss feed reader that is accessed from a web browser is perfectly sensible.
I don't quite agree with the "(generally)" here. In my experience, RSS feeds are often used to publish things like events information which isn't necessarily published elsewhere on the Web. Such uses are just as, or even more important than aggregating content published elsewhere on the Web. (But maybe I'm just expanding what was contained in your "(generally)".)
As email isn't part of the web, as it's erm, well email. So using the web to read email is /slightly/ less sane but does make sense in that you don't have to configure an email client locally each time you want to read email so it still kinda works (but not as nicely as having a properly configured email client).
I should admit that, just a few days previously, I'd had to help a student who'd been trying to email lecture code exmples to himself using HTML encoded email with the Hotmail Web interface and had got in quite a pickle trying to get the code into his editor. So maybe I was being a bit biased. Best, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken@jabber.earth.li http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +----------------------------------------------+ | Support open access to scholarship | | http://freeculture.org/ http://www.doaj.org/ | +----------------------------------------------+
Calenar that will show the next n appointments? I use kontact for entry (this is for a company). korganizer will do lists and will export to html, but they find the format hard to use, so I use konsolekalendar to get the list, then do various sorts of reformattings and send it to an rtf file, which then does redirect and opens itself in OO. Works fine. Peter
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:48:00AM +0000, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
Calenar that will show the next n appointments?
I use kontact for entry (this is for a company). korganizer will do lists and will export to html, but they find the format hard to use, so I use konsolekalendar to get the list, then do various sorts of reformattings and send it to an rtf file, which then does redirect and opens itself in OO.
That's very similar to what I already have using my own little python script, I was rather trying to get away from displaying in a terminal window. I have (re) come across rainlendar2 which seems like an excellent little calendar application and *as installed* provides separate ToDo list and Events list windows. I think it *may* provide just what I want, though I wish the skins weren't so full of eye candy, I'd prefer them to match the rest of my windows. -- Chris Green
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