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A few things:

1. What technology is behind this? Ruby?

2. Mobile is VERY important. So important, in fact, that if I were you, I'd make a mobile version of the website right now to work across Android/iPhone/webOS/Windows/etc and start working on an actual native app asap.

3. Syncing. I'd love to be able to Sync this with iCal and Google Calendar. Of course, this is a huge thing; syncing is a lot more difficult than most people realize.

4. Mixing To-Dos in there with the Calendar would be killer. Especially if you let me bring over my To-Do list from popular To-Do list websites and then make your own version.

5. I love the fact that it's so simple and nice. Please keep it that way.

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It's using Django on the server and Backbone.js on the client. It was quite a pleasure to code with these frameworks, actually.

As for your suggestions, I totally agree with all of them. They are all features I would love as well, and I have some ideas on how to make it so it's easy to plan on every level of granularity, from day to week to month to year, and to make them all play well with each other.

Best of luck to you then; truly great start it seems!

I would actually prefer not to have todos mixed in. IMHO, todos just clutter up a calendar (I've tried them in every single calendar app I've ever used that supports them, and stopped using them).

The problem I think is that calendars never seem to do todos as well as dedicated apps (or a plain text file for that matter, which is what I use now). To me this feature often seem tacked on.

Just my two cents. I'm sure others will disagree...

I was thinking of making todos part of a panel on the right that also includes canned events, stuff to be working on today based on due dates later in the week, and other such lists of items that you can easily pull into today's agenda. This side panel would be able to slide open and closed, so it won't clutter up the interface.

What do you think?

For me, todos wouldn't add much. Todos require something with more sophistication than any calendaring apps I use (BusyCal, iCal or GoogleCal, all at different times.); I use Things, and could probably stand to move to OmniFocus.

You can't beat the frictionless entry of a native application, and it's probably not worth trying. Right now, with some improvements, I can see your app as a way to either replace my current calendar (doubtful right now…native + natural language entry via AlfredApp and QuickCal is hard to beat), OR a way to fluidly plan my day/week in real-time, changing it as I need it. A way, more than anything else, to keep me focused by shooing out any thoughts of planning.

But I may not be your ideal user, and this would be a new tool with efficacy TBD.

I completely agree with the syncing comment. I think supporting CalDav would be the right(hard) step. I would also like the ability to export a text file of all the data.

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