Hi Atilla & Johan,
I have several problems with the approach you mentioned. Standard event is something with defined start and end (so you can show it in exact place in calendar). Todo item is something what started in past (in worst case in "minus infinity") and have a deadline.
So if we want to show them in the calendar, then we must show them from the start date (date when the todo was created) until the end date => the "due time" says what is the deadline but you can complete the todo any time before that deadline (no reason to show it only on deadline date).
So if you have 100 todo items (real scenario in our company) then you will see 100 squares in for every day in the month view. Another approach is to use "floating" squares and show the todos only for today, but it will cause another problem with the interface consistency, because in the month view you will see todos only in "today" square, but if you switch to week view (e.g. next week) we must show these todos also in this view (=> inconsistent because in month view you see todos in different day than in the week view). Also in both cases the interface will look terrible (and will be nearly unusable) with huge number of todos.
What we can do (in one of the future releases) is group todo items and show something like:
[today] - item 1 - item 2 [next 3 days] - item 3 - item 4 - item 5 [next 10 days] - item 6 - item 7 [next 30 days] - item 8 [later] - item 9 - item 10 - item 11
will it help to solve your problem?
JM
On 26 Jan 2015, at 23:16, Attila Asztalos attila.asztalos@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, Congrats on the release of the new unified client! I was wondering if it would be possible at some point to have an option to make todos with due dates show up in the main calendar view, much the same way calendar events show up. The (only) way I keep track of either events or todos in any of my calendars is in terms of "how many squares away are they from the 'today' square in the month view" - completely different row, only a few squares, or the immediate next square? Numbers in a list don't tell me much, it's a constant mental effort to remember/add/substract the current date to find out how close I am (and a list of ten items spread over the next five months offers no immediate perspective of how far they are from each other or how they cluster) - which is why I like "marked squares" so much more; and thankfully that's exactly how calendar events work. Any chance of something like that for todos (on the SAME calendar view)...? Best regards, Attila