Past events are too prominent in the calendar

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I’m a heavy user of meeting notes linkage in Agenda; on a regular day I have 8-10 meetings, often more overlapping. Although the past events are greyed out, I still find it hard to find my current meeting just starting or next upcoming meeting. It could be my old eyes, but there’s just not enough contrast between past and future events for my liking.

I also use Dato as a menubar calendar and like some of it’s options; the contrast is better, and you can hide past events. With that inspiration I’d like to suggest:

  • Dimming the calendar indicator and start time as well as the event title for past events (i.e. my red calendar’s line/indicator should be faded red for past events, and the start time could fade to grey at awell). Just dimming the start time for those events would really make the black start time for the next event “pop” in the current UI without any other changes.

  • It would also be nice to have an option to focus first and foremost on current/next events, instead of scrolling the calendar sidebar to “Today”. Just snapping to the current event as the day passes would help a lot (and users could always just scroll to get to the past events).

Thanks for considering!

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Thanks, we’ll take along these ideas. I think the dimming is certainly very doable.

Note that we also have widgets, and the Relevant Notes widget does exactly what you mention, surfacing upcoming meetings. You should see that if a meeting is coming up, or just started, it rises to the top of the widget.

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Thanks Drew. I’ll try the widget; widgets overall haven’t really stuck for me on the Mac, I don’t know why.

Interestingly, I don’t find I use the “Recently Edited” or “Related Notes” sections at all in Agenda. Now that I look at the widget I’d love to have “Relevant Notes” there in the app below the calendar instead of those other 2 sections. (Maybe that could be added, an some settings to hide/show each of them)

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Yeah, indeed. We built the widgets long after we did that sidebar. Relevant Notes was an attempt to combine a lot of the data in that right column, and I think it works pretty well in general.

So we probably could replace Recently Edited with Relevant Notes. The Related Notes is a bit different though, because it is related to your selection of note. If you select a note, it will include any notes linked to or linked from, or ones sharing tags etc. So that is contextual.

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My current thoughts…
What would make me happy:

  • I can customize the “Recently edited” section according to my own preferences.
  • Parameters similar to those in Smart Overview.
  • I can then switch between my own filter templates and specify what should currently be displayed on the right-hand side.
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Exactly! That is why I have suggested that “Related” be accessed from inside the currently selected note. The Related panel could even leverage the separate window feature. The same flow could be applied to Recently Edited if desired. The two can actually complement each other. As in, a note comes up from recently edited parameters that you would like to link.

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I’m sure you’ve already tried it and it’s not what you would like to see but have you tried setting the desired view day(s) in the cal at the top of the panel? It helps me but I have few days with many entries.

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Thanks for the suggestions @BruceN. I do use the little ‘dot’ to get back to ‘today’ all the time, but I still have a hard time seeing what’s next… I often scroll back a few days in my calendar (which is nice about how that works, with scrolling) and so the focus on just ‘today’ resets once I scroll. I guess my issue is just a lot of meetings, with 40+ per week it becomes a long list…