Received the calendar app this morning, it is a major step-backwards.
What was once a killer app, a core productivity tool, has given way to an almost unusable interface.
It is now really hard to perform some tasks.
For example, I am a heavy calendar user and I have something in the calendar almost every day. It is now extremely difficult to answer the question: When is a three hour window free in the next month or two?
That used to be a single glance at the month view which communicated to me full day events, part-of-day events, and for the latter which part of the day and how long the event took. A single glance at month view could answer it and I could move forward backwards to glance at the next/prev month.
Old: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kiic7fdrmu65172/2014-11-13%2006.56... (October 2014 in the old v4.4 Calendar app)
To achieve it now, I'd need to use the 5 day view, and for each 5 day segment to scroll up and down as even on my Moto X (2014) I cannot view more than half of the working day.
New: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pgqbhnc1ifp02a9/2014-11-13%2006.56... (October 2014 in the new v5 Calendar app)
Gone is the ability to use Calendar on the phone as the core way to organise your life, it is essentially now unusable on the phone for anything other than a near-term agenda/itinerary.
All of the new Gmail/Inbox to Calendar features? Dead to me, all of my accounts are Google Hosted accounts and none of the Google Now, Gmail, or Inbox integrations with Calendar work on Google Hosted accounts.
What was once a killer app, a core productivity tool, has given way to an almost unusable interface.
It is now really hard to perform some tasks.
For example, I am a heavy calendar user and I have something in the calendar almost every day. It is now extremely difficult to answer the question: When is a three hour window free in the next month or two?
That used to be a single glance at the month view which communicated to me full day events, part-of-day events, and for the latter which part of the day and how long the event took. A single glance at month view could answer it and I could move forward backwards to glance at the next/prev month.
Old: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kiic7fdrmu65172/2014-11-13%2006.56... (October 2014 in the old v4.4 Calendar app)
To achieve it now, I'd need to use the 5 day view, and for each 5 day segment to scroll up and down as even on my Moto X (2014) I cannot view more than half of the working day.
New: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pgqbhnc1ifp02a9/2014-11-13%2006.56... (October 2014 in the new v5 Calendar app)
Gone is the ability to use Calendar on the phone as the core way to organise your life, it is essentially now unusable on the phone for anything other than a near-term agenda/itinerary.
All of the new Gmail/Inbox to Calendar features? Dead to me, all of my accounts are Google Hosted accounts and none of the Google Now, Gmail, or Inbox integrations with Calendar work on Google Hosted accounts.