[HN Gopher] Forebruary
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Forebruary
Author : colinprince
Score : 95 points
Date : 2024-05-22 09:01 UTC (2 days ago)
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| RecycledEle wrote:
| I see a single web page that refuses to fit on my screen and has
| zero links or interactivity.
| wingspar wrote:
| Click on the dates. On my iPhone it moves the frame to show the
| correct month. Landscape looks better than portrait . I gather
| it's a design exercise not a product.
| Pwntheon wrote:
| And also with some mega tags that prevent me from pinch
| zooming.
| neutrinobro wrote:
| Every month of this sliding calendar has 31 days.
| ed_blackburn wrote:
| That's the first thing I thought. Is that part of the
| minimalism? An oversight? As a used an April with 31 days makes
| me question the basic competency of the site, I'd relate it to
| poor copy. However, I do adore the stripped back aesthetic, and
| I hope this demo can inspire some UX evolution for calendars.
| NoMoreNicksLeft wrote:
| You're deducting points because of his excellent consistency?
| pfdietz wrote:
| "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" --
| Emerson
| NoMoreNicksLeft wrote:
| Hobgoblin was my favorite superhero in the DC universe.
| foolz wrote:
| Maybe I'm misunderstanding the value here, but this doesn't
| handle any months that have less than 31 days (including February
| ironically, which seems to be the source of its name).
|
| Additionally how does the user align the frame year by year? Look
| up the month on a normal calendar first?
| eru wrote:
| > Additionally how does the user align the frame year by year?
| Look up the month on a normal calendar first?
|
| In practice, probably yes.
|
| In theory, when it's December 31, you can relatively easily
| figure out what day of the week tomorrow is going to be.
| foolz wrote:
| Ah yes that makes sense, thank you.
|
| On the last day of the month, you would align the 1st to the
| next day of the week.
| david206 wrote:
| I guess you should delete the last days of each month according
| to its length, Or - have 4 "calendars" one for each possible
| month length: 28, 29, 30, 31
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Yeah, you just have to know when to ignore the 31 (and as you
| say, also the 29 and 30 in some cases).
| jimmcslim wrote:
| Nice, as long as it's printed on whiteboard material you can
| scribble out the surplus days if there are any, write on the
| month, and annotate with birthdays, etc at the start of each
| month! Where do I buy?
| precommunicator wrote:
| People who buy physical calendars: why?
| m463 wrote:
| I think there's a huge market for things in plain sight.
|
| That said, with new displays you can hang on a wall, there
| might be a replacement.
|
| Related, I wonder why we can't store more of our stuff in
| shallow drawers where everything is visible (think rolling tool
| chest drawers where you can open one and see all your wrenches
| at once)
| LVB wrote:
| Not buy, but I print out a 2-month "calendar" (just the current
| + next month) every month. I love scribbling on it, drawing
| arrows, x-ing stuff out, colors, whatever. I do 2 months since
| near the end of the month, stuff will bleed into the upcoming
| month. On the 1st, I thoroughly enjoy printing out a clean
| version for the next 2 months and copying the rollover items.
| It is a satisfying ritual.
| nluken wrote:
| A calendar with good art or photography can be worth it as a
| wall decoration alone. I find them especially nice for the
| kitchen because it isn't the end of the world if a $20 calendar
| gets wet or dirty.
| toast0 wrote:
| I haven't bought one, but they're handy to write future events
| on for reference, and they often have a pleasant picture to
| look at for every month.
|
| In my house, we ended up with a makeshift calendar on a
| whiteboard with the basic events. Trash + X day (greenwaste and
| recyling alternate), school days, practice days, vacations and
| visitors, volunteering. Everyone can glance at it and know
| what's going on.
|
| Computerized calendars are nice too, but don't live in a
| certain place to be looked at in passing.
| baq wrote:
| I have 4 kids. Having a centrally visible (kitchen wall), huge
| (A3 or bigger) zero power consumption display of the family
| calendar is _absolutely fucking essential_ to my and my spouse
| 's scheduling needs, by which I actually mean our sanity.
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| We just hung up a large dry-erase one in the hallway. My wife
| has wanted one for awhile, and it's an excellent way to make
| sure that our child can add things to the calendar that are
| important to her, that she or we will otherwise forget about.
|
| (For example, today's busy schedule includes climbing a tree
| with a neighbor friend at 11am, which is somewhat frivolous,
| but there have been things she's been upset about missing
| because she either didn't mention it to us, or we forgot to
| jot down in our calendars.)
| baq wrote:
| Got that too! Though we use it for actually whiteboarding
| math homework and tried a chore kanban-ish board (which
| even sort of worked for a couple weeks).
|
| The kitchen calendar is approved for writes by the kids,
| too.
| quartesixte wrote:
| Sometimes they have nice designs or pretty pictures.
|
| Circling an important date takes very little effort.
|
| No opportunity for distractions.
|
| That whole "flip through the months to think through future
| schedules" is actually a pretty good UX.
| albert_e wrote:
| this is neat for minimalists
|
| for some additional help ... marking days of the week (M T W T F
| S S) along the top.. at least in relief might be a functional
| addition.
|
| optionally a month name slider could be added at the top -
| obviously it won't look as "cool"
|
| finally a smaller slider tab might be added to the frame, in
| order to hide the numbers 29/30/31 as needed. that tab could
| either be blank or have digits 1/2/3 printed on it (for next
| month)
| p9fus wrote:
| The little timeline comparing it to the Shostakovich's 10th
| Symphony, Yury Gagarin being the first man in space, and the
| presentation of the IPhone was a fun touch lol
| orthoxerox wrote:
| Yes, Ilya loves to brag about his modesty.
| baq wrote:
| (2013)
| deathanatos wrote:
| > _For the United States, where week starts on Sunday (but it is
| anyway considered a part of weekend)_
|
| My fiancee likens the weekdays to books, and the weekends to
| bookends. Books, bracketed by bookends, have two ends, one at
| either side.
|
| If I ask you to "circle the ends of this line segment", you will
| circle two spots.
|
| Of course, the problem with time is that it has a beginning. But
| the above is her logic for it.
| tobr wrote:
| Does she also say things like "Did you do anything fun over the
| weekends?"
| KMag wrote:
| More likely, it goes back to the origins of our 7-day week. The
| ancient Romans had an 8-day week. Our 7-day week comes from the
| Jewish calendar, where supposedly the world was created on a
| Sunday, and the final day of the week is the Jewish Shabbat on
| Saturday. (Though, we didn't keep the Jewish calendar's notion
| that days start at sunset.)
|
| I suspect that if you go back far enough, most of Europe
| considered the week to begin on Sunday, but I have no idea how
| far you'd have to go back.
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| > _Books, bracketed by bookends_
|
| Ah, yes, hence why we refer to them as the bookend.
| samatman wrote:
| Perhaps there's some difference between bookshelves and
| weeks, such that the weekend both serves as bookends to the
| week proper, and is yet contiguous?
| aszantu wrote:
| cool idea, I hate free floating numbers though
| wodenokoto wrote:
| In terms of wanting a wall calendar and not want to buy new ones
| every year, I like Matt Parkers idea of reusing vintage
| calendars, as there are only 14 different calendars.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrgN-tvg53I
| NoMoreNicksLeft wrote:
| If one were to make this physically, it could have a narrower
| width by having the days of month on paper, rolled up like
| scrolls on either side, with knobs on each to adjust. Motorize
| those, maybe.
| quuxplusone wrote:
| "Forebruary is a wall calendar that you do not need to replace
| every year" -- Hmm. When I had a wall calendar, I used it to
| write down upcoming events or tasks. So I needed to buy one
| calendar for each year I planned to do anything: if it's August
| 2025 and I'm already planning as far out as March 2026, then I
| need wall calendars for both 2025 and 2026, in order to have
| places to write what I'm doing. That is, I'd need to buy one
| calendar for each distinct _year_ in which I had plans.
|
| This minimalist calendar has space for only a single month. So in
| the August-March scenario, I'd need to buy eight separate
| calendars for August 2025, September, October, November,
| December, January 2026, February, and March, in order to have
| places to write down what I'm doing in those months. That is, I'd
| need to buy one calendar for each distinct _month_ in which I
| have plans at a time. (Presumably I could use dry-erase markers
| and reuse a month 's calendar as soon as it was in the past.)
|
| The above is the geeky/theoretical interpretation. In practice, I
| don't think people would buy multiple of these; I think this just
| doesn't function as a calendar at all.
|
| It could be useful to display in a bank, where customers need to
| know today's date and nothing else... except that the calendar
| offers no way to _mark_ today 's date! Not even a little magnetic
| ring or anything. A simple flip calendar (as banks already use)
| is superior.
|
| It could be useful to display in a place of business, like a
| 19th-century clerk's office, where no employee would want to mark
| events on the communal calendar but it would still be useful to
| see at a glance "Next Monday, that's the 17th..." Unfortunately,
| suppose today is the 29th. Then next Monday is the... uh... We
| have two problems: not only can we not see dates in the next
| month, but the calendar doesn't even give us a hint about the
| number of days in _this_ month! There 's already a small genre of
| office comedy about things happening on "April 31st" or
| "September 31st"[1]; this calendar would exacerbate that problem
| to the point of being counterproductive to display at all.
|
| This calendar design isn't even a "solution in search of a
| problem" -- it's merely several additional problems with no
| familial resemblance at all to a solution.
|
| [1] - Or the inversion on "Parks & Rec" where the intern
| mistakenly believes that there is _no_ "March 31st".
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/94_Meetings
| bunnyhero wrote:
| these have been around for a long time. e.g.
| https://www.ebay.com/itm/276030548980,
| https://www.ebay.com/itm/275256905873
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