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February 22, 2006
Build the TouchCalendar - please!
This is a subject I've talked about before and it still remains my day-2-day problem #1. Especially now my wife is on the first 4 weeks of a 9 week course - leaving my mother-in-law (afternoon shift) and myself (the rest) to herd the kids.
We have a "largest we could find" paper wall calendar in the kitchen. It has five columns (1 for each member of the family) and you wouldn't believe just how small they make those day-boxes. It contains the various appointments, "need-to-knows" for each day for each member of the family. A non-trivial problem.
However it does not sync to any of my digital calendars. And that is a major problem. Sitting in front of the wall calendar typing stuff into my laptop calendar is just a PITA. Also, the data is practically out-of-synch when I leave the kitchen. So, scheduling days I can be away from home is really difficult as I first have to check with the wall-calendar (or by proxy) whether the day is ok.
How expensive can it be to build a simple touch-based panel that sits on the wall (say size of an A4 piece of paper) and provides (just) a calendar application that is able to sync out via WiFi or Bluetooth and can do that in some format. I know the calendar format problem is still waiting to be solved - but hey - I reckon any format would do for now.
Posted by Matthew at February 22, 2006 02:30 PM