@rrhoover My buddy @liampmccabe and his team recently launched this app, who have quite an interesting take on visualising time. I thought it would be worth sharing as I'm someone who uses a calendar 24/7 and this is a unique take on the traditional calendar methods.
@notrab@rrhoover Cheers guys! Rolo was a little idea we had a few months ago and we're glad it's finally came to fruition. The whole concept of a circular calendar was an intriguing one, the main idea - which my buddy @nikolakirev will go into more detail - was to wonder what your day, week, month or year would look like, if you could see it all at once. No rows and rows of weeks like traditional calendars but instead a long infinite circular timeline that can be scaled accordingly.
@ankushdharkar Hey! Thanks! It's free, because all the best things in life are free! ;D But seriously, it's free because we made it for fun and in order to expand our product portfolio at Rebel Minds.
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I am intrigued by this. However, is there no way to name an event (stuck with simply the 8 or so categories), or am I just missing something that's right in front of me?
@andym_dc Hi! Thanks for the feedback! You can create a custom event category. Look for the "+" at the top right on the list of event categories. You can also edit the title of the event using the built in calendar app. We decided to try this approach of categorising/tagging events instead of typing in titles. I know it does not fit every workflow, but lots of people like it.
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@nikolakirev Thanks for the reply... I'm not sure what you mean about the built in calendar app other than the category labeling and editing part? I guess it's a little weird to me to have a bunch of my events show up with their real names (the ones synced from other calendars), but then not be able to edit those or add events with similar information in the same app. That being said, I still have it and like the design! :)
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This is an amazing app. Curious to know if the calendars integration will be extended to outlook and gmail calendars ?
Kind of disturbing at first but I could get used to it easily! Maybe you coud make the "back to now" shortcut more visible / obvious (I thought it wasn't there) + differentiate the "now" state vs past / forward state. Anyway great job guys, love it!
It wants access to your location, contacts, and calendar. Does it share this data remotely? Or does that data stay entirely within the device. As I'm not comfortable sharing that data with any third party that isn't Apple itself.
So the original idea came from circular watch faces and how they represent blocks of time as segments on a circle.
The circle shows you 24 hours where the top is the present time, the left half is the past and the right half is the future.
Of course, since we have the calendar events layed out on the circle, you can scrub through time in a very ‘iPod Classic’ way :)
There is also on option to switch to week/year view by swiping up or down on the screen.
We also did something different with creating new events. Instead of asking users to enter a title for every event they create, we give them a list of categories to choose from as well as allowing them to create their own.
Fitting the circle on the screen is easy, what wasn’t easy, was coming up with what to do with all that spare pixels. Calendar and weather apps work well together, so we decided to make the app background display the current weather using some fun, cartoony graphics. The position of the sun and the shade of the sky also corresponds to the time of day. @liampmccabe did some awesome illustrations for all these features!
In the next version of Rolo we'd like to make it smarter at automatically categorising your calendar events and potentially have separate calendars for work, social and even longer events that would have a slightly more custom design with unique circles and backgrounds.
We hope you like it!
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