Roundup - Calendar app 18
by Adam Marks Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:20 am EST
For today's Tip Roundup, we will focus on the Calendar app in webOS. While there are some features that are sorely missed from the old PalmOS calendar (Agenda view or calendar search, anyone?), the webOS calendar can be a pretty powerful app. With Synergy, you can easily combine calendars from accounts such as Google (which supports multiple calendars), Facebook, Exchange, Yahoo and others on a single screen and even move calendar entries between accounts. For a handful of tips to help you more easily work with the calendar, keep reading after the break
- Jump to a specific day in the calendar
- Quickly jump to a specific day on your calendar or simply return to today
- Delete a calendar event
- Any guess what this tip is about?
- Set Calendar View Options
- Determine which calendars are shown by default in the calendar, or allow you to focus on only one specific calendar
- Move calendar entries between accounts
- Did you create a calendar entry on your Palm Profile but want to move it to your Google Calendar? Or want to move it between your various Google calendars? This shows how to do just that
- Map a Calendar event location
- If you have a Location included within your calendar event, you can quickly map the location or bring up driving directions within Google Maps or your carrier specific Telenav app.
- Calendar: Agenda view and Search (Homebrew)
- As mentioned above, an at-a-glance Agenda view and search within your calendar are missing from the stock calendar app. Luckily, homebrew developer Haeffb created the Agenda app that provides up to a 31-day list view of all your appointments and also includes search within the app by just typing on the keyboard.
- Note that this Agenda only works in webOS 1.4.5 and under, and does not work in webOS 2.0
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18 Comments
Now how do I add attendees to a new event.
I think the UberCalendar patch and the Google Account Search app are both worth mentioning here...
+1 Million on UberCalendar
Also, why have multi-day events been a consistent problem with Palm? It was for 650/755 and it still is for Pre.
When I add an all-day, mult-day even in Outlook, Pre changes it to 12am-12am event. It was the same on my 755. Doesn't anyone else put vacations on their calendar?
On palmOS I would set vacations with 'no time' which is different than all day events. Unfortunately that is also missing from the webOS calendar.
For me, the biggest missing feature is the ability to specify time zones, which Treo had.
let's say I'm flying to LA and having a meeting at 10. If I enter it in my calendar while I'm still in Boston, then when I arrive in LA my Pre will have changed the time to 7!
PLEASE HPalm, let us specify time zones in Calendar entries.
There may be a patch for this in Preware. I thot I saw it, but since I never really used that on the Treo, I did not apply it.
I'd like to see the Holidays be on the correct day. LOL
I had to deactivate my Palm Profile calendar because every holiday is posted as the day prior to the true date.
Hillarious! Mine had Christmas on 12/26 and all others a day late.
No, the biggest misfire for me is that I can't invite meeting attendees on my Pre. How on earth can this device be business compatible if it sorely lacks features that are second nature on a BB?
You can add attendees only if there is already one. It is odd.
My biggest issue has to do with repeating appointments that were set up (through exchange) by someone in a different time zone. I'm unable to delete individual instances, and when the reminder goes off, the alarm goes haywire, repeating over and over (dismissing or snoozing does not help--with ubercalendar or not). My only resolution is to fire up Jstop and kill the calendar processes.
I love to use Google Calendar to set up schedule on my laptop. However, Palm Profile is all I can count on as a backup if my Pre goes belly up, is there any way to set up my Calendar with my Laptop on Palm Profile? I want to have my Calendar back if/when I lose my phone. If not, that would be a real killer deal for HPalm to add.
Maybe I am misunderstanding.... but I use my google calendar as my default, so all entries from my phone are automatically synced with my G calendar.
Basically I use google (or other cloud source accessible and able to backup from a PC) for anything I can on my phone, so if the phone is gone, the info is either on a PC or in the cloud (other than Palm Profile) so I can access it from anywhere.
I wish the calendar had more increments for reminders like Outlook has. I'd love reminder increments between one day before and one hour before. I may just have to find a 3rd party calendar app for this, but I like that it automatically synchronizes with Google calendar.
The main problem with the calender i find is syncing with facebook - all the events are put onto the next day. I have been told that this is because i'm in the uk and facebook is based in the states!
is Facebook calendar syncing still broken? Unless I physically put the ICS file into my google calendar, the facebook events are always off by +2 hours as I am in CST and the Palm servers are in PST.
I'd love to see more granular control of appointments as was available in datebook (used by palm as their native calendar) My routine calls for appointments every 15 minutes. I need a list view of appointments whose spacing can be adjusted at will. I doubt that Pimilical will ever be ported to the pre. Please let me be wrong.