Brainstorm

Currently alarm always defaults to 15 minutes, unless you are entereing an event at 15 minutes or less ahead: enable default setting to alternative, including no alarm.

Adjust day/agenda view to show a full timetable so free time can be seen as well as busy time - as the wek view does.

Adjust month view so the 'busy' mark occupies the relevent third of the box to indicate morninf, afternoon or evening.

Integration has been requested with:

Webdav

Caldav

Currently people can only have a birthday (and a cake) if they appear in the contacts list. This is inconvenient if the live at the same contact address as an existing contact -eg partners, children etc.

Enable entry of birthdays/anniversaries (preferably with cake!) from calenday view for persons not in the contact list.

The current list of available reminder times (15 minutes before, 30 minutes before, etc) for appointments is too restrictive.  What if I need to be remembered at 8pm on the evening before an event that occurs on the next day?
(the s60 calendar would let you do this very easily)

Please add an option to set the alarm at an arbitrary time

(tasks have just gained this ability with the 2009-51 f/w so it should be easy to implement)

The calendar should be able to "subscribe" to a URL pointing to an iCalendar file.  Periodically, it should import that file into a local calendar.  It may be simplest to make subscribed calendars read-only.

The browser should recognise webcal:// URLs and pass them to the calendar for subscription.

The existing calendar is able to import iCalendar files.  However, if you later re-import a file, and some of the events in that file have changed, duplicate entries result.  The calendar should recognise that any events with the same UID are indeed a unique event, and merge them.

When creating a new event, it always defaults to the 1st calendar, with an alarm 15 minutes before the event.  It would be better if these defaulted to the values used in the most recently added event.

A very basic function is missing: Please let people send invitations for conferences/meetings. Then also needed is the possibility  to accept or reject meetings.

Thunderbird with the lightning extension is a nice example for these functionality. It should be also compatible to Outlook appointments.

Olease see (an vote!) also the bugzilla entry for this:

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6130

When viewing the calendar by week or month, one can move forward or backwards to the next week/month by swiping left and right.  However, the display flicks to the next time period and then visibly repaints; calendar items can be seen appearing in batches (presumably as they are retrieved from the database).

It would be less disorientating if the display smoothly scrolled from one month/week to the next, as happens with the desktop or in the image viewer.  If necessary, the delay could be reduced by pre-caching neighbouring months/weeks.

Update: this was implemented for the month view in PR1.2 :-)

Allow repetition of activities just like events and birthdays.

Tipical activities that need to be repetead are, for example, tax payment, of any kind:

- car tax payment (every year with different due date for each car/motorbike)

- television tax payment (once a year)

- government tax payment (once a year)

- ...

I'm Italian, we have many taxes to pay...

Add the possibility to customize calendar widget:

- set the number of rows to show on the widget (now there are 5 fixed rows)

- set the date range to use to show tasks on the widget (1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, ...)

- choose if each type of task (birthday, event, activity, note) should be shown grouped (just like activities are now grouped) or ungrouped (like birthdays and events)

- choose if past uncompleted activities should be shown or not

It should be possible to see other attendees of an event, and to invite contacts when creating or editing an event. This is especially important when using Maemo calendar connected with a company group calendar, but could also work with contacts by sending invitations via email or MMS.

Unlike most countries, the weekend is Friday and Saturday in most Middle East countries. (Thursday and Friday in Saudi Arabia).

The calandar must enable user to choose weekends and display them as diffrent colors.

It should also enable Saturday as first working day (Saudi Arabia)

Not like default view. Need "view by month" as default or possibility to set it as default.

In addition to collecting and adding attendees for events, be able to offer an option(box with buttons for launching related apps) of calling or emailing attendees based on the priority of the event in case you're running late.

Have email field filled with attendees and offer a pre-typed message set by user so they can just hit send and not worry about writing a message making them even more late. Similar function to WebOS.

Add a feature that allow to send a calendar event, note or todo task by email, bluetooth, irda, etc.

Add a feature that allow to reveive and add a calendar event from email, bluetooth, irda, etc.

Notice : maybe theses features can be compatible with other Symbian OS.

A feature in Outlook that I use quite often allows me to create a Calendar item from something else by using the "Copy to Folder" function (Shift-Ctrl-Y on Windows). E.g. I can create a Calendar item from a Task or a Contact by opening the Task or Contact, press Shift-Ctrl-Y and a Calendar item is created with the Task or Contact info copies into the Calendar text area. This is create for setting up a specific time to call back a Contact or to work on a Task.

Ability to set a SMS or an EMail as alert (in addition to the alarm), so the phone automatically sends the alert when the time comes.

A feature that auto-SMSs people wishing them happy birthday before I forget would be great. Also, e-mailing someone (or yourself) would be useful, say, reminding everyone in the office the meeting will be held in an hour. I shouldn't be able to forget things while holding my N900.

Besides, "Good Morning. Today is Jim's wedding anniversary. I have sent him a message and an e-mail order for flowers has been forwarded to the florist. You have one new mail, subect: Confirmation of order" has been promised to me since the eighties. It's thirty years later.

Allow to set a Alarm on a specific time and date. (not only 0, 5, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1h, 3h or 1 Day before)

I think the best is the last calendar nokia 9500 communicator, quick practical and comprehensive. Take at least its functionality, this is for me unusable. Research missing, moving a time or date for a week is too complex, copy a meeting from week to week .....

It should help me not to complicate life, or not?

The ability to sync to Google Calender would be brilliant.

Im sure alot of people would find this feature useful.

Like calendar entries (and like tasks on S60), "Tasks" kept in the Maemo calendar should be able to have a description attached to them (or link to an existing note).

It seems odd (and somewhat tedious to work with) that the tasks and notes lists are kept separately from the other calendar items. Entry of a new task is tedious as one needs to enter the task list to enter a new task.

Proposal:
1) Consider the tasks list and notes list as alternative views of the calendar
- just like the month view, week view, and agenda views.
2) Let the user drag the views sideways (left-right on a small region of the screen) to switch between the views.
3) Split the "+ New event" button in the agenda view up into three; "+ New event", "+ New task", "+ New note".
4) Ensure that the other views also allow entry of all entry types.
5) Perhaps create a shortcut to entry of new calendar entries; keeping your finger pointed at a particular day for about 3 seconds could raise a context many allowing you to open that day, add a new task, add a new note, or a new event.

Problem: Currently, the Maemo 5 Calendar Todo list allows the user to specify a deadline for a task.  However, many tasks have flexible deadlines, or just may not get done in time anyway.  The main todo list always displays all tasks in the order they were due, but the other calendar views that show tasks may not show overdue tasks at all, if they are outside of the window of time displayed.  This can be problematic because the user will either forget about some tasks or have to manually reselect dates for all overdue tasks.

Solution: Add a "Postpone" button above the "Delete" and "Save" button in the "Edit task" dialog.  This button should behave in a similar fashion to other todo services, such as RememberTheMilk.com: an overdue task will be set to be due Today when the button is pressed, or if it is not overdue, it will be postponed by one day per button press.  This functionality would be reasonably intuitive, and the added button would be in a sensible place that would not clutter the UI appreciably.

The only way to find appointments in the future/past is the slowly scroll through long lists with tedious breaks as you change date. Add the ability to use a free text search to match appointments. Ideally this would integrate into a system wide search tool.

Currently only the day before at a specified time.

Would be good to have the option for on the day and at any interval not just on the hour, 15 , 30 , 45 past etc

add by country or region holydays to the calendar and make it possible to use more than one country i work with people in 4 different countries, venezuela usa canada and spain and i dont have any idea when people works or not.

Tasks that are dated are displayed on the calendar on their due date. This is good.

What is not good is that, if the task in not completed (ticked) by the due date, it will disappear into the past and most likely be forgotten about.

Incomplete tasks that have passed their due date should always be displayed/remain on the current day in the Calendar until they have been completed (ticked).

It would be useful if the overdue task also displayed a number in brackets beside it showing how many days overdue it is.

This is an enhancement idea for the Nokia N900 alarm and calendar snooze system.

When alarm fires (for calendar or general alarm), in addition to the usual single hit of the snooze button, it would be really useful if the user could press and hold the snooze button to change the snooze time, as you can with MS Outlook, for example.

I suggest using a simply array of buttons set out in a grid to set the snooze time, using these options:

5 mins
10 mins
15 mins
30 mins
1 hour
2 hours
4 hours
1 day
1 week
1 month

A typical scenario:

- The alarm fires
- Press and hold 'snooze' (this will produce the array of time options)
- Choose a snooze time (the array automatically disappears and the phone goes back into sleep mode)

Of course, the option to simply hit snooze would still be available.

Thanks.

When I add a new event, I often think like that: I have to do something next tuesday, or in two weeks tuesday. Without having shown the weekday I have to calculate the acual date. Thats awful.

So the weekday could be displayed small in brackets each day dependent on selected year and month.

A typical day schedule of mine look aproximatly like this:

04:45 wakeup

07:50 take children to school

12:45 tentative religious meeting

13:15 take children from school

19:00 religious meeting

Then we have the weekly schedule on top of it, with at least one more weekly event each day.

Then we have the monthly schedule on top of it.

And now I add all my business/work events.

Now, while I am working on my computer or in a meeting, I would like to have a different and specifiable ring for each event, so I'll know what it's about without having to take a look at the phone, especially if it is in my pocket.

In other words, we need event specific rings for the same reason we need contact-specific rings.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar

It make sense that it's too much work to implement all the existing calendars,

but making some preparation, I.E. read webcal://
or an xml or other format file that has information to be linked to the main calendar,

I.E:

year 2010 {

day345.alt-year = "התשעא"

day345.alt-month = "כסלו"

day345.alt-day = "יט"

day346.alt-year = "התשעא"

day346.alt-month = "כסלו"

day346.alt-day = "כ"

}

and then have the opportunity to see those as an additional date line in day and week view.

It is not the same as Generic iCal or webcal, as we need and additional day/date title.

The alternative to insert a whole day event with this info is pretty ugly.

The notes view is lacking several features making it pretty difficult to use

1. Add the possibility to create a shortcut to notes (and tasks) from the desktop. It currently requires 3 taps to go to notes

2. Add sorting to the notes view. Currently it is sorted older to newer, and if a user has many notes he has to scroll down to see the most recent notes

3. Add ability to search the notes. Notes is a valuable means of quickly storing information that you may need months later. It is difficult to check each note to find a certain information.

4. add the ability to select text

When I create an Appointment in Calendar and then synchronise it with Outlook, it appears in Outlook as a meeting instead of an appointment.

For those that don't know, an appointment is an entry for you only and it becomes a meeting if you invite attendees. Your meeting then appears on your calendar with an extra icon showing two heads to show it's a meeting, and the details window has you as the only attendee.

Any entry in the N900 Calendar should be synchronised to Outlook as an Appointment (until such time as Calendar fully supports Meetings).

Needs to be a way to tell when appointments overlap.  Presently, it isn't too obvious.

Also, like to be able to set a status (tentative, confirmed, etc...)

Currently, Tasks need to have a completion date. However, there are often things we have to do (for example household errands) that do not have a specific deadline. So the option of "no date" for Tasks should be available. (see also Solution #12)

Furthermore, Tasks should have a separate widget of their own, so that one can look both at the Calendar widget and the Tasks widget and decide if there is enough time that day to fulfill one or more of the tasks.

Or the one widget could have the option to slide right-left to rotate between "Event View"-"Task View"-"Notes View". (see also Solution #28)

Or the one widget could have different pattern/font for events and tasks (for example tasks could have a white background and black font). In this case, dated Tasks could appear in chronological order within events on the widget and, for non-dated tasks, one should be able to decide how many should be shown on the bottom of the widget. (see also Solution #14)

The week view is too high, so that much scrolling may be needed to view the various events.

The height taken by each hour could be configurable, or hours could have an adaptive height: when there's nothing, they should take very little space. The height could also depend on the text that is displayed.

Enhance left right swiping in calendar, so we can quickly change views. Swiping left-to-right and opposite on the calendar should change to the next or previous day (just like week and month), on tasks it should change task lists  (It would be very nice to have multiple task lists - e.g. home, work, shopping list etc.) and maybe go to notes too. On viewing a single note it should go from one note to another.

At present it is only possible to specify a start or end time for an event in 5-minute intervals. It should be possible to select the time with a granularity of one minute.

For example, if I am catching a train, I like to put the exact time of the train in my calendar. But with the Maemo 5 calendar it only seems possible to specify the time to the nearest 5 minutes.

A possible implementation of this could be one (or more) of the following:

• An interactive analogue clock, as per the device setup
• A text input box to write the exact time
• Scrolling selection list (as at present) but with 1 min intervals rather than 5 min intervals

It would be swell if the calendar integrated with contacts and maps.

For instance, when I create an appointment titled "Meet with Alice", it'd be nice to have a link to Alice's contact sheet (matching substrings against a list of names ain't that hard; I can disambiguate manually)---or maybe just appended to the appointment thingie ("widgetry"?).

If I have Alice's address stored and i put "@Alice" (or similar), it'd be nice to have a "show on map / route / navigate there" link too, especially when the appointment alarm goes off.

Similarly, for birthday appointments, it'd be nice to have people's contact information right there so the path from reminder to their facebook wall, phone call or w/e is as short as possible.

If you mention more than one person, an "email all" and "group chat" might be useful too.

in addition to solution #18 not only saturday should be selectable as first day, but all days. Start of the week in some countries is sunday for example.

At present (1.1.1) when you open the Calendar, you get to the 'Agenda' view. Here you see the next upcoming markings in your Calendar in list form. This is a suggestion to increase the usability of this view:

To me this view is useless because you have to scroll all the way up to the top of the list to make an entry, and then you're forced to remembering what was the date of the day you want to do the entry to. So I suggest that after all the events for marked days you would have a discrete icon that once pressed would take you to a view to set a mark in the calendar on that day you were viewing. For e.g a small " + ". Something intuitively apparent.

The desktop widget could be improved by providing greater visual distinction between events occuring today and those occuring further in the future, as well as more useful dates.

I would propose the following:

• Provide a clear visual distinction between today's events and other events, such as a light-coloured line below today's events, or emboldening them, or use an alternative colour for the time
• For tomorrow's events, display an abbreviation of the word "Tomorrow" instead of the date, or distinguish it from events occuring today and beyond tomorrow in some other way
• For events beyond tomorrow but within the next 7 days, display an abbreviation of the day name instead of the date (Mon, Tue, Wed, etc.).

Instead of the small coloured stripes/bars for events, I'd like to see (obviously in a small font size) the actual name of the event (or the first x amount of letters that the width of the cells allow).

when editing or deleting an event calendar should offer option to change single occurence or all occurences of event

When you create an event to have its duration automatically make your phone silent and then back to normal when it is completed. This would be able to be linked with your created "calendars" so you can select which need to have this function scheduled

eg: If you have a "business" calendar, and a meeting at 9am - 11pm when you create it, you can tick "silence phone during this time" and your phone will automatically go on silent for the duration.

A widget would assist for simplicity to easily "extend" or "release" the silent period incase the event is longer or shorter.

Would be a real gem as we all at times forget to put our phones on silent.

When you create an calendar entry, it would be brilliant to have its duration automatically make your phone silent and then back to normal when it is completed. This would be able to be linked with your created "calendars" so you can select which need to have this function scheduled

eg: If you have a "business" calendar, and a meeting at 9am - 11pm when you create it, you can tick "silence phone during this time" and your phone will automatically go on silent for the duration.

A widget would assist for simplicity to easily "extend" or "release" the silent period incase the event is longer or shorter.

Would be a real gem as we all at times forget to put our phones on silent.

Currently alarms for tasks and events will only be 'ringing' if the profile is General, and vibrate when on Silent.This is inconsistent with alarms set up with the Clock application. While this was a design decision, users should have at least the option of having sound in calendar alarms at all times, overriding the profile. Either an option in profile settings, or a setting in the Calendar

Currently: Alarms have to be added to individual events.

Problem: Painstakingly tedious if you want to alarm every event in a calendar. Also tedious if you synchronize from GoogleCalendar (which overwrites any alarm settings for an event).

Soln: Under Calendar -> Settings -> Edit calendars -> -> Implement an Alarm tickbox and a Reminder combo-box (0,5,10 minutes before etc).

This will then alarm for every event for that particular calendar, regardless of whether the events are periodically overwritten (e.g. by being synched from Google).

If you do not want an alarm for every event, then separate your events into 2 different calendars; one with this feature on, one with the feature off.

Ability to automatically retrieve Facebook event invitations as calendar invitations, send calendar events as facebook events.

Ability to see the guest list of facebook events from n900 calendar.