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You asked for itMarch 6th, 2006 by Nick |
After taking a little break, we’ve been back in action. Lots of bugs fixed and little improvements (almost all based on your excellent suggestions in the forum). And some long awaited, frequently requested features:
- Biweekly repeating events. Entries such as “deposit paycheck every other friday” or “deposit paycheck 3/7 repeat biweekly” work from the One Box, or you can use the edit form to change any existing events.
- Omit certain occurrences from repeating events. In the edit view, you can specify certain dates to be ommitted (skipped).
- If you have a birthday event (just make sure the word “bday” or “birthday” is somewhere in the event summary), put the person’s birth YEAR in the notes (something like “born in 1972″). We’ll calculate and show you their age when you’re looking at that event.
- You can now select the maximum number of events shown per day on the main calendar. It was fixed at four, but many people wanted to see more. Go to your account and click on the “Advanced” tab to change it. Increasing the number takes more space of course, so this is most useful for those with big monitors.
If you see anything wrong, please let us know in the forum.
30 Boxes!
March 7th, 2006 at 3:07 am
Wow. Some really good updates going on! Thanks!
March 7th, 2006 at 7:51 am
Thanks for all these improvements!
March 7th, 2006 at 10:46 am
“Omit certain occurrences from repeating events. In the edit view, you can specify certain dates to be ommitted (skipped).”
Yay! The omission of the omission feature is one that has been keeping some people I know from adopting 30boxes. Now I’ll finally get to play with the social aspect of the service!
March 7th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
whahoo! Biweekly just what I was wishing :) … good job everyone :)
March 8th, 2006 at 8:15 am
Cool… cocomment seams to work as well :-)
March 9th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
Thank you all so much! I think I’m in love… O:-)
March 11th, 2006 at 6:35 am
And still no support for international date and time. This has been asked for in the forums already over a month ago - with no official answer yet.
March 11th, 2006 at 6:35 pm
Hey Ralph, there’s only three of us at this company (and we’re not all engineers), and we’ve cranked out quite a few features in the last month. If you read the forums, you’ll see that we respond to (and usually fix) most issues that people raise, usually within days and sometimes within minutes. I doubt you’ll find that level of responsiveness from companies 1,000 times bigger.
Accepting international date formats as inputs is high on the list, but it’s also not trivial. We currently support 107 distinct variations of date formats, and we can’t break any of those when we add the several dozen required to handle international inputs.
It will come, but I can’t promise when.