This is an idea for a Google Calendar setting I would love to have, and I’ll explain my two reasons why. First, look at a typical week view of my calendar:
- As you can see, most things I have to appoint occur during the afternoons and nights. That leaves me a lot of whitespace on mornings. I realize this is not the typical business-oriented calendar, but it’s the one I use, and I would love to get rid of all that nothing on top, and stop looking always at the bottom of the page. It feels uncomfortable.
- It’s probably Twitter’s and Facebook’s fault, but it seems I got used to read from top to bottom, and it happens to me that I switch open tabs and when I get to the calendar view, my first instinct is that I just missed an upcoming event. This is because the now-bar displayed there separates the new and old, and I got used to the up-newer-upcoming / down-older-past metaphor. It only makes sense to unify those across services. It even works like that in G+ user, Google.
So my proposed setting turns the hours column upside down, leaving the night hours on top, and morning hours on the bottom of the page. It would look something like this:
Much better, right? Of course I’m not saying it should be mandatory, probably I’m not the average Calendar user, but I’ll love to have the option. It could be a labs setting and you could call it beta, and everybody is happy.
