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Supercharge Today's menu icon
Today is a great overview of my stuff. But I have to say, I'm not 100% sold on having to open a window just to look at what's going on. I mean, can't I open iCal?
I'd love it if Today's menu icon was, well, functional and not just an application launcher. It would be pretty nice if it had the basics of what's going on in iCal (a few tasks, today's events?) as a drop down. Something along the lines of what MenuCalendarClock for iCal gives you.
I'd love it if Today's menu icon was, well, functional and not just an application launcher. It would be pretty nice if it had the basics of what's going on in iCal (a few tasks, today's events?) as a drop down. Something along the lines of what MenuCalendarClock for iCal gives you.
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Inappropriate?I've been thinking about adding a menu to the icon, but I haven't thought of anything that would be useful there beyond just a Quit button.
I personally use Today in my Dock because I have enough menu bar apps. I don't want it to feel like the Windows task manager. :)
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Inappropriate?The role of Today is clear to me: iCal does not have a single "mission control" view that shows events and tasks in a list. As a practitioner (and teacher) of GTD-like methods, this is a crucial limitation. Today *could* fill that need. However, as it is it's not there yet. (Suggestions coming in a minute.)
The menu idea wouldn't work for me - too many tasks. -
Inappropriate?I leave Today idle in the Menu Bar because it's more of a service than an app, to me. I agree that SOME menu is needed if it is running up there, at least About, Preferences, Check for Updates, and Quit items.
As for "couldn't I just open iCal," I think that assigning a hot key to Today (I used Ctrl+M from Entourage's My Day) clears that up, as you have it instantly accessible from anywhere, and you can put it away just as quickly. -
Inappropriate?There's two ways one might add to that sun menu bar icon to make it a menu. The first is to have shortcuts to common tasks; the second would be to show information (next events, next tasks).
In the first mode, a possible menu configuration might look like this:
New Event
New Task
Open Preferences
Quit Today
So in this mode, one could quickly click the Today sun icon to show the Today window like now, or click/move down menu to select an option. This is useful because in menu bar only mode you don't get the regular menus.
In the second mode, clicking the icon might show the following:
Today is Day Month Date Year, grayed out, pretty much like when you click the Clock menu bar icon.
Next Event 1: foo, grayed out.
Next Event 2: bar, grayed out.
Next Event 3: zoo, grayed out.
Next Task 1: foo, grayed out.
Next Task 2: bar, grayed out.
Next Task 3: zoo, grayed out.
Quit Today
Which is of course similar to how MenuCalendarClock works. The difference in this suggestion to MenuCalendarClock is you wouldn't necessarily show a calendar GUI and such, it could be just grayed out menu items. I'm not sure how useful this is -- after all, clicking the icon will show you the main window that would already have this info.
Or one might combine the two approaches, of course. -
Inappropriate?I'm more inclined to have action buttons in the menu bar rather than showing actual data. At a minimum I might have something like "5 events today", "10 tasks today" but it'd be too much to show individual items in the listing.
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