Week Calendar 4

Week Calendar 3 is the most popular, highest rated calendar app available for mobile devices right now. While other calendar apps have been playing catch up by copying most of our unique features and some even doing a complete redesign, we have been spending a great deal of time on finding out how users interact on a daily basis with their calendar:

• what are the big gripes of users
• what are the little annoyances
• how can we convey information even quicker
• what features are power users missing

After a lot of testing, usability engineering and of course coding, we've created Week Calendar 4. Building on all the great stuff already there, we've added hundreds of new features and tweaks. Some really big ones, and a lot of very minor ones that make life just that little bit easier.

We are only highlighting four of all those incredibly new options here now, but there are many more innovations, which we'll cover soon also.

Agenda View

First of all, the Agenda view. This is, next to the week view, the favorite view of a lot of users. And that's why we put a lot of time into making it much smoother to work with.

We've redesigned the view to be more visually pleasing and to be quicker to scan through. Less drop shadows, more visual clues. The current day really springs out now.

The info popup bubble is something that really works well to show more details quickly, so we've added it to the agenda view as well. When you select an event, a popup will now show more information.

Font sizes can be user configured now and we've optimized a lot of the text layout. User feedback on the redesigned agenda view has been amazingly positive, so we're sure you'll love it also.

Icons for events

By giving each event its own color, users can color code their events to quickly categorize them. Week Calendar 4 adds an extra, very visual way of categorizing events: icons. Each event can have a special icon indicating what the event is about. 

Soccer events can have a small soccer ball icon, parties a balloon, shoe shopping a small shoe. There are over a hundred icons to pick from and they will show up in every Week Calendar overview. 

In the month overview, the dots can even be replaced by small icons to make scanning a month much easier.

A mini month view

Something often requested is a more textual month overview. While the current month view works very well usability wise, we've sat down for a long time and created a really easy to use textual month overview, which can optionally be enabled in the settings.

Each event will be shown with its title in the color of the event. Tapping on an event will reveal the well known info popup bubble, with more information about the event. If there are more events than can fit on the screen, you can of course simply scroll the week to reveal them. It doesn't get simpler than that.

What makes this view extremely useful in comparison to other apps utilizing such a view is that it fully supports cut, copy, paste, tap-to-hold and deletion of events directly without even leaving the screen. It's not only a view, but the mini month view is fully interactive. 

Since the iPhone has limited screen space, we've added some really useful settings. The font size can be changed, of course. To save space for titles, the time of events isn't displayed by default in the mini month view: it can be enabled of course. 

The best setting to get much more information on the screen is the ability to hide weekends. Weekends can be always be hidden or in portrait mode only, only be shown when there are actual events in the weekend or only be shown on actual weekend days.

Coupled with the new icons feature, it's also really easy to get a good overview of your month.

And of course, the view works in both portrait and landscape modus.

Batch editing

The biggest innovative and unique option in Week Calendar 4 is batch editing. This new feature is a huge timesaver and incredibly powerful. It's amazingly helpful when you suddenly need to reschedule 6 events to be 1 hours later:

And it works as follows:

1. tap-&-hold on the middle action icon
2. you are now in multiple selection modus
3. select the 6 events to reschedule by tapping once on them: they now all have a checkmark
4. drag-&-drop the whole group to be one hour later
5. that's it. You've rescheduled 6 events in only 4 small steps.

Select multiple events	Paste 3 events at once
Delete 3 events quickly

The best part is that batch editing simply works everywhere: copying, cutting, pasting, sharing, deleting, dragging, resizing, templates and even editing. Yes, we made it possible to edit multiple events at once:

Select the events, hit the edit button and you can actually pick which properties you wish to change for all events and which to leave alone. The editor has been made really smart, so it will display which properties are common among all edited events and which are not.

Since changing times is such a common operation, we've build extreme flexibility into the editor for this: one can batch change the starting day, ending day, starting time, ending time of a group of events. It's possible to change the duration of all events and move all events with a certain offset.

Batch editing in Week Calendar turns your mobile calendar into a really powerful editor. It integrates so seemingly elegant in Week Calendar, that it will be just there when you need it.

And more

These are some of the amazing new options in Week Calendar 4 which we are really excited about. But, of course, there is much more great stuff in Week Calendar 4: timezones, resizing, presets, search, badges, menu items, add in multiple calendars, group-templates, and more....

We will cover these new features in our next blog post!

Get Week Calendar on the App Store.