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Thank you for the kind words :) The grab attention feature is not the core focus of the app. I don't plan on making it any more complex than it already is, or adding crazy configurations like to display a fullscreen alert (which was requested a bunch of times). I really don't understand is why people disable the native calendar banners:
I don't have a team of engineers to work on all of those features, so I have to focus on what really matters to me. |
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I'll tell you why native calendar app banners don't work. Yes i have them stick around, but that makes them cover up screen content so we end up dismissing them to view application content, and for many of us, out of sight is out of mind, and I've missed meetings from dismissing them as soon as 2 minutes before they start because i'll "just go check a thing" and thanks to spotting some "issue" end up diving into code and before I know it it's 2 hours later. Yes I regularly add 5 alerts to important meetings. it takes 30 seconds extra to do this for each one but I'm happy to do it. You would think that dismissing an alert 15, 10, 5, 3, and 2 minutes before a meeting is enough to get me to remember about the meeting. You really would! I did too! Doesn't eliminate the race condition of being interrupted in some sort of way after the last notification comes up but before it begins. So that's why i tend to keep an alert at 0 minutes before. Anyway, alerts covering the desktop area is flawed. It's damned if you do and damned if you don't when it comes to the use of actual usable screen area. The discussion of notifications reminds me of how in Windows, the alerts even cover the menu bar system tray. A horrible design misstep that other OS's at least avoid. I've had times when discord would flood notifications and I could not even access the tray icons at all. in order to quit discord to put an end to its notifications, i have to open the tray to get at its icon! it was a ridiculous situation. You think very little of this feature but I assure you it's better thought-out than everything else I've ever seen to date. I consider notifications to be a firmly unsolved UX problem. I think the ability to achieve the needed attention grabbing while being physically small (wasting little real estate) and impossible to cover up and impossible to block existing content gives this approach a huge leg up over alternatives. I wasn't really begging for features to get added. It's basically perfect as it is now. Mostly posting to appreciate the attention to detail. |
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No problem, I appreciate 🙇🏻♂️ |
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I just want to shout a big THANK YOU for having the courage to make an app that makes my calendar items blink at me in the menu bar.
It has already probably saved me from being late or absent to a few meetings, and I'm sure before long it will follow in the footsteps of my Apple Watch and have the distinction of saving me from losing a job.
I think this "grab attention" feature's parameters can be opened up for users to tweak. For example it does work well for me and from what I've gathered observing it:
I can imagine some users may want more intrusiveness and others can make do with somewhat less. These defaults are really well thought out defaults though I gotta say.
I guess to better allocate our attention, it may be useful to be able to mark certain event start times as not being meetings (my example is my calendar event to remind me to put out the trash. I don't exactly need to do that at 6pm sharp, but having it visible in the menu bar is still a big win and I love it).
That way we can save the attention grabbing feature for the calendar items that really need it.
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