Fwd: Month View and Overlays

I'm forwarding the following suggestion from Greg Noel:

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Greg Noel <[email protected]>
> Date: September 25, 2007 6:36:03 PM PDT
> To: Mimi Yin <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Design] Month View and Overlays
>
> On Sep 24, 2007, at 11:01 AM, you wrote:
>
>> Month View for Desktop and Web applications and Overlays for the  
>> Web has come up ... they are definitely on the short list of  
>> feature enhancements to be implemented as soon as possible.
>
> May I put in a bid for a mixed weekly/monthly view?  It would be  
> far more useful than either a weekly or monthly view in isolation.
>
> It goes like this:  In the worst case, the month view has to have  
> six rows.  The view I want looks like a month view with six rows,  
> except that I want to combine three of those rows into something  
> else.  It may only be usable on a bigger screen, but for those of  
> us who have one (I have a Macintosh Cinema Display), it would be a  
> boon.
>
> The initial row is "last week" then the next three rows are a  
> compressed "weekly" view.  The last two rows are then "next week"  
> and "the week after next."  I find that I rarely look at any other  
> times: I might look back to the prior week to remind myself about  
> something, and I'm almost always scheduling events within the next  
> three weeks, so this view would cover 99-44/100 percent of the  
> times I have to deal with.
>
> If you are careful when you build the month view, all the pieces  
> would be available, so implementing this view should be simple.   
> And if my use pattern is common (which I think it is), I suspect  
> you'll find that it's the most common view by far.
>
> Tks,
> -- Greg Noel, retired UNIX guru

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