[Remind-Fans] how to visualize weekly schedule?

[Paul Hinze]

Daniel A Graham <daniel.graham at duke.edu> on 2007-05-27 at 22:46:
> Would something like the following work for you?
> 
> Concept for busy/free time display for 15 minute time slots from 8am until 12pm.
> #####################################################################
>   8   9   10  11  12  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10  11  12
> M            ==========                     ========
> T            ==========
> W                         ====
> H            ==========
> F                                             ============
> #####################################################################

Daniel,

This looks like a great idea for getting a weekly schedule displayed to
the terminal in a form that is useful in different ways than the
standard `rem -c+`.

My original thought was some sort of graphical output option, be it a
PNG or a PS.  If there existed a rem2ps-weekly, I was going to look into
the ability of GeekTool to display an image on the desktop and see if I
could keep my weekly schedule there.  Looking at your example, I find
myself wishing for a little more data and a little better resolution.

I did make an attempt to work in labels into this model.  From your
example data in a relatively sparse schedule it sort of works:

            6am 7   8   9   10  11  12  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9pm
Sun 01 Apr: .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Mon 02 Apr: .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Tue 03 Apr: .   .   .   .   ======  .   .   .  ======   .   .   .   .   .
          |                 [Economics 206...] [Economics 207...]  
Wed 04 Apr: .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Thu 05 Apr: .   .   .   .   ======  .   .   .  ======   .   .   .   .   .
          |                 [Economics 206...] [Economics 207...]  
Fri 06 Apr: .   .   .   .   .   . ======.   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
          |                       [Micro Lunch...]
Sat 07 Apr: .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

But from a slightly busier week in my schedule (excuse the Spanish class
names)...

+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+
|  Sunday  |  Monday  | Tuesday  |Wednesday | Thursday |  Friday  | Saturday |
+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+
|8 Apr     |9 Apr     |10 Apr    |11 Apr    |12 Apr    |13 Apr    |14 Apr    |
|          |          |          |          |          |          |          |
|Easter    |Spring    |10:00am   |10:00am   |10:00am   |10:00am   |          |
|          |Break     |Literatura|Sintaxis  |Sintaxis  |Sintaxis  |          |
|Spring    |          |          |          |          |          |          |
|Break     |          |1:00pm    |11:55am   |          |Friday the|          |
|          |          |CSLEI     |Student   |          |Thirteenth|          |
|          |          |          |Media     |          |          |          |
|          |          |3:00pm    |Interview |          |          |          |
|          |          |Teologia  |          |          |          |          |
|          |          |          |1:00pm    |          |          |          |
|          |          |4:30pm    |CSLEI     |          |          |          |
|          |          |Filosofia |          |          |          |          |
|          |          |          |          |          |          |          |
|          |          |6:00pm    |          |          |          |          |
|          |          |Meet with |          |          |          |          |
|          |          |Monica    |          |          |          |          |
+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+

...things get a little messy.  Perhaps still somewhat useful, but messy:

            6am 7   8   9   10  11  12  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9pm
Sun 08 Apr: .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Mon 09 Apr: .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Tue 10 Apr: .   .   .   .   ======  .   ======  =====================   .
          |                 [Literatur-][CSLEI] [The-][Phi-][Meet with M-]
Wed 11 Apr: .   .   .   .   ====.  =.   ====.   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
          |                 [Sint-][St-][CSLEI]
Thu 12 Apr: .   .   .   .   ====.   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
          |                 [Sintaxis]
Fri 13 Apr: .   .   .   .   ====.   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
          |                 [Sintaxis]

Anyways, after playing with this and seeing the limitations of console-based
output, I think that I'm going to continue looking into a more graphical
solution.

Thanks a lot for your work on this!

Regards,

Paul