The boss called me up the other day to see if I could put my electronic diary online. After establishing that he wasn’t talking about my PocketPC, but actually my copy of Microsoft Outlook, I started work on an online calendar which would allow us to view our appointments from wherever we happened to be.
Absolutely no planning was done, and instead I dived right into it. The design was similar to the one for this site – white bar with varying shades of grey and orange highlights – and I wrote the whole thing without using images, you know, just for a laugh.
The calendar currently has Day, Month and Year views and supports multiple users. It defaults to your own Calendar Month view, but any user can view any other user’s calendar so they can see what they’re up to on whatever date. The option also exists to flag entries as ‘Private’ so they they can only be seen by the person they apply to. Oh, and admin, but I haven’t abused implemented that bit yet. There was originally a plan for a ‘Week’ view, but given that the month one is plenty good enough there isn’t really any point.
Future plans include a Search facility of some kind and having the site email a list of the day’s jobs during the week, so that one of the first messages of the day will be a list of things to do. Perhaps we could have the next day’s appointments emailed at 4pm the precvious day so that we can see tomorrow’s tasks before tomorrow actually startes – that might be a better idea.
Oh, and the boss wants a version for mobile phones as well. What. The. Hell?