jae_63

This looks very promising, especially with regard to your interface for adding appointments. Here are some thoughts:

• I'm afraid it will be necessary for you to add a lot more options, even though it's nice and clean in that respect for now. Some of these options are described below.
• A calendar which starts on Mondays is really hard for us Americans to deal with. Can you please add an option for calendars to start on Sunday?
• There were some stray appointments that showed up in today's calendar when I first started Gemini Calendar. These were real events which I had added at some point, but not for today. They did not appear in either Calendar Pad, the builtin calendar, or Pure Calendar. Unfortunately now I've deleted them (within Gemini Calendar), so I don't have a meaningful bug report for you on this point. In retrospect I should have waited until I reached a computer so I could've poked around Google Calendar to understand what was going on.
• I love that point-and-click nature of specifying the time (in Gemini Calendar) when adding calendar appointments; this is critical for those of us without keyboards. But I would like a much simpler method of adding appointments. This should be as similar as possible to Pure Calendar's "Quick Add", except of course using your much nicer method for specifying the time. I.e., adding an event should just consist of a short description and a start time, plus setting (or disabling) a reminder if it's different than the default.
• While adding an appointment, the menu key should offer "Save" and "Discard" options. There should be no need to scroll to the bottom of that appointment-adding window. This is one of the things which drives me crazy about the builtin Android calendar on my Droid Eris.
• When adding an appointment, by default your scrollbars should let you edit the start-time (in hours) rather than needing to click on that value prior to editing it.
• Would you consider "breaking out" your appointment-add software as a separate app ("Gemini Quick Add")? Then the Pure Calendar author could support it as one of the options for adding an appointment. He already supports a number of other such options, so it would be little effort for him to add another one.
• Here's another idea for adding appointments now that Google is starting to support gestures: Suppose that the user were to scrawl exactly four digits in military time for the start-time of their appointment. E.g., for a 9:30am meeting today I would scrawl "0","9","3","0". The advantage of this is that you don't have to stare so closely at your screen while adding an appointment. In some ways this is analogous to the wonderful PalmOS DateBk technique for adding an appointment.

Thanks for your efforts, and please post back if anything I've written is unclear.

Last edited by jae_63; April 9th, 2010 at 08:36 AM.