From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jacek Generowicz Subject: Time-proportional agenda view Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:53:59 +0200 Message-ID: <3A8647D3-5963-4302-87EF-AA04C06CCB25@cern.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41513) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWo3S-0007n8-TL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:14:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWo3R-0000I3-NK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:14:38 -0400 Received: from cernmx31.cern.ch ([137.138.144.179]:51033) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QWo3R-0000HV-6f for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:14:37 -0400 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hello, When viewing the agenda, I would like to get an immediate visual clue about the time-span of entries. For example, if I have the following items * Boring meeting <2011-06-15 Wed 08:00>--<2011-06-15 Wed 13:00> * Lunch with mistress <2011-06-15 Wed 13:00>--<2011-06-15 Wed 14:00> my agenda would (visually) suggest that there is a short Boring meeting, followed by copious free time, followed by a Lunch with mistress of approximately the same length as the Boring meeting. Perhaps something like this 8:00...... -------------------- 9:00-13:00 Boring Meeting 10:00...... -------------------- 11:00...... -------------------- 12:00...... -------------------- 13:00-14:00 Lunch with mistress Whereas the following gives clearer immediate visual clues about how the time is distributed. 8:00...... -------------------- 9:00-13:00 Boring Meeting 10:00...... Boring Meeting 11:00...... Boring Meeting 12:00...... Boring Meeting 13:00-14:00 Lunch with mistress In other words, the Boring meeting is scheduled to run *right up to* Lunch with mistress: this is made clear by the latter style, but in the former style I would have to read the time range indicated on the Boring meeting line and work out that it eats up all the time until Lunch with mistress. Is there some way of getting agenda views to look more like the latter example? Is there some pretty agenda view export functionality that gives better geometric reflection of the time spans of entries? (I suspect that overlapping entries would get very messy when represented by text, but could be dealt with elegantly in a more graphical medium.) Thank you.