Jump to a specific day in the calendar 12
When you first load up the calendar app you are initially taken to the current date, but what happens if you want to jump to a specific day, or return to the current day? You can manually scroll through each day (by swiping left/right in daily or weekly view, or up/down in monthly view), but there is a much easier way. While you are in your calendar, you can either swipe down from the top left corner of the screen to get the Calendar Application drop-down menu and select "Jump to..." or you can click on the date header at the top of the Calendar (e.g. "Today, Tue Aug 24" in the background in the screenshot) to load up the "Jump to..." pop-up. From here, just select a specific day, month, and year you want and choose "Go To Date", or select "Go To Today" to jump to the current day.
Another way to quickly jump back to the current day is to tap the Daily View icon ( 
) at the bottom of the calendar screen while already is Daily View. If you are in weekly or monthly view, you would need to tap that icon twice to return to the current day
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I knew about the jump-to-date thing already but the double-tap-day button thing was new to me, that's really useful.
OK guys, here is the $64K question. I am on the phone today, the call was marked in my calendar starting at 10 and going on for 30 minutes. In the conversation we agree to have the next call on next Wednesday. Believe it or not since I in this call am not in the key group I do not even want to look to see if I am open next Wednesday at the same time. I tab on the item in the calendar. I tab on the date / time area and then with the scroll of numbers representing the day of the month I try in my head to figure out what date next Wednesday is. I want to know how a guy like Rubenstein does it. Is he really that better than me in knowing what date next Wednesday is? HELP!
I agree this is a problem.
Is there a way to keep the calendar on month view? Every time I open it, I have to switch from day view to month view, and I can't find anything in preferences that will allow me to make month view the default.
Sure there is patch in homebrew that does that.
It can be installed using Preware with a Luna restart. It works great. Loving the tips I gleen from this site.
Bjarne,
You are dead on. As a long-time Palm OS user, I was floored when I bought a Pre and found that Web OS only has such a simple date picker. And it isn't just Calendar... pretty much any other application that uses the standard Web OS widget gets the same thing.
If you use homebrew applications, give the app called Cloud Tasks a try. It is an interesting application in its own right, but check out the date picker. It is a month-view just like Palm OS. And, unlike anything else I've seen on Web OS, it has context so it's easy to select something like Wed after next (without doing date math in your head or counting on your fingers).
What we should all do is lobby Palm to adopt the same widget and make it available as a standard across all apps in Web OS 2.0.
Who's with me?
I am 100%
double tap day view is great - thx for that one :)
...and also works with double tap week view for current week and double tap month view for current month
Bjarne, I'm with you !!!
Bjarne,
Very good point.
WebOS' date and time pickers really suck, compared to their PalmOS equivalent.
Even if the wheel metaphor is trendy, there are obviously better and richer ways to make date and time selection efficient.
UberCalendar is the patch you need for a productive calendar on WebOS.