Calendar overview
I would love to have a view (similar to Today and Next etc.) that showed me a calendarial overview of the current week, month or year, showing all tasks with assigned deadlines. Maybe just the number of deadlines for each day, if anything more too complex. Perhaps colored according to task concentration on a gradient color scale.
With this feature, I could rearrange to spread tasks more evenly -- if I set the deadlines myself, that is. If not, then at least I'll know when to start crunching extra hours.
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Support Staff 2 Posted by Christiane Magee on 04 Dec, 2009 10:30 PM
Johan,
Thanks for this suggestion. If you can believe it, the predecessor of Nirvana was an application which would do exactly as you described. I'm going to pass on your suggestion to the dev team as that kind of visualization of tasks would be definitely cool and could help to more effectively reorganize your to-dos.
Keep the suggestions coming!
Support Staff 3 Posted by Elbert McLaughlin on 05 Dec, 2009 08:31 PM
Hi Johan -
We were considering an iCal feed... so that Nirvana due dates could appear in the external calendar of your choice. As you move task dates around, the feed would reflect the changes. The idea being that this would let folks continue to use outlook, ical, google calendar, tungle, me.com, iphone, crackberry, android...
Or would you feel that a native, in-app Nirvana calendar view would be the way to go? I have this funny feeling that if we actually built a Nirvana calendar view, folks would quickly want to view their other calendars inside Nirvana, and then we'd be on a slippery slope to becoming yet-another-web-calendar online... which is not what I'd like to see!
Your thoughts?
4 Posted by Antonin.S on 06 Dec, 2009 06:08 PM
I think that iCal feed for synchronization with google calendar will be better solution than another calendar in Nirvana.
5 Posted by johan.aulin on 06 Dec, 2009 08:10 PM
Either way is fine by me. I just want the overview, whichever way that may be. :) I love how quick you are to respond to suggestions! :D
6 Posted by Vin Thomas on 07 Dec, 2009 07:20 AM
I agree with the ical feed. This is the way many of the other task manager apps work and it seems to be just fine for most of us.
7 Posted by Simon Bingham on 08 Dec, 2009 05:01 PM
It would be nice to have some previous/next day links at the top of the Today page so you can easily jump between days and see scheduled tasks.
8 Posted by Sean Carter on 08 Dec, 2009 06:46 PM
I think that both a native calendar and the ability to sync with ical would be amazing
9 Posted by josvandervoort on 09 Dec, 2009 12:32 PM
ICal and Outlook on Exchange server aren't the best of friends. As many other persons in the world I am stuck with what my IT department gives us.
In other words: I would like a calendar option but one that syncs one way or the other with a calendar in Outlook 2003. This may be a subcalendar. This haveing the additional advantage that it cannot be shared with my co-workers, At least I feel comfortable with my assistant having only insight in my schedule and appointments and not into the way I organise my working day from my GTD system.
10 Posted by Elurven on 10 Mar, 2010 08:37 AM
Personally, I believe that a solution would be to be able to sync actions with an external calendar like Google (which in turn can sync with other calendars). So I do not really see the need for a calendar view in that sense, but I would like to see a "Scheduled" Focus list in the left-hand pane. This list should contain all actions that you have scheduled for a certain date, i.e. that can't start until a particular date. These actions do not really fit in any of the existing focus lists. (I do believe that "Scheduled" is also used by the Mac application "Things".)
11 Posted by Proximo on 24 Mar, 2010 09:05 PM
+1 on the iCal feed option.
It's the most flexible and eliminates the use of multiple calendars. I would imagine that most people are already using a calendar of some sort. It could be Google Calender for personal use of your Company Calendar on Outlook or Lotus Notes.
Having a native Calendar in Nirvana will give me yet another calendar to deal with and I think we can all agree that having one Calendar to rule our life is probably best. This will prevent you from missing something important because you did not check the correct calendar.
just some thoughts.
12 Posted by john.welch91 on 01 May, 2010 11:44 AM
+1 for this, both a GCal and a native implementation would be great - if Nirvana had this I'd replace Google Calendar with it.
13 Posted by Vin Thomas on 01 May, 2010 02:29 PM
My suggestion would be to look really closely at what GQueues does in this arena. Their integration with Google Calendar is the best I've seen. They do things I didn't even know were possible.
You can add tasks via the web, or Google Calendar. You can move tasks in Google Calendar and have them reflected on the web instantly. It's amazing.
14 Posted by Proximo on 02 May, 2010 06:17 PM
GQueues is great for sure. I think they are using the Google API to integrate this well. It would be nice to have similar integration with Nirvana and GCal. :-)
15 Posted by Simon Bingham on 02 May, 2010 07:44 PM
Simon
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16 Posted by Michel Peterson on 20 May, 2010 02:38 PM
Indeed a iCal feed would be the way to go and it should be really easy to implement it. More complex things like GCal integration will be taken care, like the staff said, when an API is available on the future.
If an App Store (see suggestion [1]) would to be implemented then the GCal integration could be easily added to it as an addon application for people who need it.
[1] http://help.nirvanahq.com/discussions/suggestions/349-nirvanas-app-...
17 Posted by robert.c.lilly on 27 May, 2010 06:46 PM
I agree with the suggestion to look at the way GQueues handles integration with Google calendar. The concern I have with an iCal feed is whether it accommodates 2-way synchronization or not. I'm currently experimenting with Toodledo and while I can see my tasks in Gcal I can not update them from there. Same is true when synchronizing in Thunderbird/Lightning. Also, Gcal doesn't update it's iCal feeds very frequently so changes made in Toodledo don't get reflected in Gcal for several hours.
18 Posted by robert.c.lilly on 27 May, 2010 07:17 PM
I agree with the suggestion to look at the way GQueues handles integration with Google calendar. The concern I have with an iCal feed is whether it accommodates 2-way synchronization or not. I'm currently experimenting with Toodledo and while I can see my tasks in Gcal I can not update them from there. Same is true when synchronizing in Thunderbird/Lightning. Also, Gcal doesn't update it's iCal feeds very frequently so changes made in Toodledo don't get reflected in Gcal for several hours.
19 Posted by Onestab on 05 Aug, 2010 05:04 PM
+1 to the iCal option. It would prevent double entry. I do think that a calendar inside of Nirvana would essentially create a different product. I would not go in that direction. Be what you are trying to be and not more. That is a slippery slope.
20 Posted by marcus on 15 Aug, 2010 11:54 AM
While the iCal feed would be nice, I would love an integrated calendar view. I need my GTD in one place. And yeah, that would include notes as well.
21 Posted by Matt on 18 Aug, 2010 02:11 PM
I'd love to see my scheduled tasks on my GCal somehow. Having them in Google means that I also get a copy of scheduled tasks offline (since my Google Calendar goes offline with me)
An iCal feed is sufficient, but I do agree with what others are saying - Google only updates its feeds once or twice a day, so there's a frustrating lag; and there's no capacity for a two-way sync.
On the other hand, an iCal feed can go basically anywhere; and I imagine it's not nearly as difficult to develop as a Google API solution would be.
If the choice is iCal now, or an API solution in a year, I'll take iCal now - that matches the features of most other Todo apps online, and gets me the majority of the features I want.
As for the "NirvanaCal" solution, I don't see the value. Frankly, if I ever wanted to see JUST my tasks, I'd pull up GCal and turn off all my other calendars. Google and dozens of other companies already have a good calendar solution; I don't think you should reinvent the wheel.
22 Posted by David Doan on 22 Aug, 2010 05:56 AM
It would be really awesome if it was compatible with gmail calenders and you could share the calanders with someone else for a group project or something.
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