Bus圜al offers SSL encryption for local syncing, but for some inexplicable reason they don’t turn it on for you automatically. Instead of iCal’s simple, elegant inverted-roundrect denoting all-day events, BusyMac attempts an unnecessarily visually-complex shiny-bubble look whose multiple elements adds even more distraction from understanding the data at hand.
Weekend days (Saturday+Sunday) have an unnecessary light-gray background and for-the-love-of-god red month day numbers. iCal uses a 12pt Helvetica while Bus圜al uses an awkward and attention-stealing 14pt Lucinda Grande. BusyMac diverged cosmetically from iCal in a few ways, all bad. BusyMac support says “We’re well aware of the demand for that feature and hope to provide it in the future.” Need to keep Bus圜al running to stay in sync. Does away with iCal’s annoying ringing-alarm animation, and allows fine-tuning of snooze duration. Moving from month to month is animated with a simple but effective slide effect.Īlarm Window. I think I discovered a way to suppress this, but I’m unsure and unwilling to go back just to verify.Īnimation. Previously my alarms would ring on Victoria’s iCal and iPhone. Remove Alarms, Attachments and To Do Items from subscribed Calendars. You can actually type out “4:23p” into a new event’s start time instead of navigating iCal’s awkward segregated time field. Avoids the annoying pop-up window that obscures calendar content and annoying double-click-event-then-click-edit-button-then-click-field workflow. Bus圜al has an option of displaying and editing event info in built-into-the-main-window split view, a la iCal 1’s drawer (but more modern). I want to fall in love again, but I’m scared I might get hurt.
Long ago I gave up on calendaring software authors understanding the beauty+utility of floating events, so I restructured my life to cope without them. I loved floating events since they allowed me to schedule uncritical tasks in the future, ensuring I wouldn’t forget about them while keeping them off my radar until relevant.īus圜al implements this feature, but I haven’t really tried it yet.
If you didn’t mark them as done, they’d carry-forward to the next day until they were marked as completed or deleted altogether. The best features of Datebook+ were its event-entry interface (which blows away my iPhone 3GS’s awkward seven-tap-minimum event-entry-workflow), its week-view (something I wish my iPhone could do whatsoever) and floating events.įloating events were events you could assign to a specific time, but were also like to-do items that could be marked as completed.
My old Handspring Visor Deluxe came with an app called “Datebook+”, which I later learned was a lightweight version of Pimlico’s DateBk 3. This is kind of hard to explain, and unfortunately somewhat jarring to use (see my last Bad point, below) but means you’re not ambushed by stuff coming up the week after the end of the current month.Ĭarry forward uncompleted To Dos. Scroll by Weeks turns your month view into a stacked-week view – each week is a row in an infinitely-vertically-scrolling table. The worst-case comes on the last day of the month, where only ~1/30th of your month’s display is usefully editable.Ĭompounding the problem is having to page between two months when a work-week happens to span them to get a attempt to gain a coherent view of your week. Traditional monthly calendar views suffer from the problem where less and less of your calendar view is useful as the month progresses. And I have upgraded from iCal+ BusySync to Bus圜al.