Calendar - Events and To-Dos
Calendar is always an interesting application. For a consumer, it is a productivity tool to capture all his meetings, calls and other stuffs (dubbed generally as EVENTS). Due to my curiosity I checked few app calendars as well as online-calendars, and found that they capture the information about a event in their own ways. But from a close observation, the following pattern can be seen.
For a event they capture:
1. Title / Subject
2. Description
3. Start time (inc date) , End time (inc date)
4. Reminder / Alarm setup
5. Repeat setup, Invite option
6. All Day event ? option
7. Ownership / assign-to-user
8. Priority
9. Public or Private
10. Status (like postponed, cancelled, to be held etc)
For a task or to-do, they capture :
1. Title / Subject
2. Description
3. optional start time (inc date) , End time (inc date)
4. Reminder / Alarm setup
5. Repeat setup, Invite option
6. Ownership
7. Priority
8. Public or Private
9. % completed.
As observed, the events and tasks/to-dos share a common set of information. Only a few unique informations differentiates a task/to-do from a event. The same is found in one dicussion thread (got through googling) that gives more clarity about Event/Task differentiation is here
Certain features like invite, ownership appears only in collaborative environments. And generally, personal calendars do not feature the “ownership / assign to” detail.
-Dharma