I love the idea to show today + x days in the future and not the past.
Can somebody please build a better calendar for OS X?
Can somebody please build a better calendar for OS X?
What the poster wanted was "today" set wider so that you didn't get "multi-appoinment-squishes-text-into-unreadable-jumble" columns, then a two days in the future (no Yesterday), in a narrower column, and then a fourth column with things that are more than 3 days away but presumably less than a month or maybe a couple of weeks away.
That is a much more intuitive way to think about scheduling for some people. And one that I would use if GCal supported it.
Not exactly what the poster wanted: doesn't integrate the agenda view into the same screen, and doesn't make Today bigger (though does visually highlight it, which I would argue has the same effect).
Otherwise, it's pretty damn close.
I wasn't being clear in my response that I was talking about what the author of the linked article actually has a much better design [1] in mind for a 'bigger than today, less than a week' view. I think it would be nice if GCal picked that up, I can understand that its providence might make that impossible.
When I first started at Google I there were lots of meetings and I missed a few because everyone was in quad cubes and so nobody had speakers or anything going, and my Calendar notifications (as a blinking tab in firefox) were easy to miss. To get around that I built a device that was connected to my workstation via USB (it was basically an Arduino clone) which had an LCD display and an LED and a button. When the next meeting was coming up it would display on the LCD and the LED would flash (hard to miss) and stop flashing when I pushed the button acknowledging that I had seen it. Was going to add a 'snooze' button but didn't get around to it before I left.
That hack used the GDATA API and Python to pull my calendar data and send them out to the display. It would be pretty easy to implement the modified future view idea as a local script which captured that you wanted and put it into a view like this.