Graham Perrin's List: sidebar and popover listings of calendars in Apple iCal

• sidebar missing from iCal in Lion — seeking a third party product to restore lost functionality
• Apple has removed the sidebar
• always-on list of calendars
• The shallow popover that appears only when clicked — obscuring part of the calendar before disappearing — is to me (and some others) an unacceptable substitute
• full-featured calendar interfaces do have an always-on full-height list of calendars
• BusyCal
• continue using iCal
• in a way that is less frustrating
• a third party product that will restore lost functionality to iCal
• iCal sidebar
• none (add)     ical
• extraordinarily frustrated by Apple's design decision
• not an invitation to rant
• submit iCal feedback to Apple
• why for you personally the limited disappearing popover is a poor substitute
• the sidebar will improve both (a) your productivity and (b) your appreciation of Apple's software
• regression
• popover
• sidebar,
• Totally agree
• annoying to have the pop up obscure the calendar

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• Lion iCal any good?
• May 21, 2011
• sidebar missing
• great frustration
• Apple has removed the sidebar
• always-on list of calendars
• popover is an extremely poor substitute
• BusyCal lacks support for Microsoft Exchange Server
• dumbed-down reduced functionality iCal in Lion
• BusyCal — comparable to iCal in Snow Leopard
• feedback to Apple
• sidebar missing from iCal in Lion — seeking a third party product to restore lost functionality
• in Identi.ca
• in Twitter
• iCal in Lion
• iCal hurts my eyes
• find another Calendar
• permant stay on
• removed the left sidebar with calendars
• stick with busycal

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• iCal in Lion
• Oct 21, 2010
• calendar sidebar is gone
• drop down

  • it's an Aqua popover
    
    http://diigo.com/0hsmg
  Add Sticky Note
• button on the top left seems like it opens the ol' sidebar. I hope

  • Unfortunately, the button does not open a sidebar.
  Add Sticky Note
• From Appleinsider:
• only briefly
• popover that obscures part of the calendar
• disappearing
• totally unacceptable substitute
• disappearing shallow popover requiring multiple clicks
• Lion iCal any good?

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• I want the Snow Leapord ical view back
• 21-Jul-2011
• immediate access
• hack to bring this back
• sidebar
• earlier topic

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• side calendar
• 21-Jul-2011
• need the side
• get it back
• no longer present
• no user option
• sidebar is very important
• I sent some feedback
• Concur!
• I thoroughly concur too! I've sent feedback
• concuring!
• earlier topic

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• iCal in Lion - I want my monthly calendars on the left side back
• 22-Jul-2011
• sidebar where calendar list used to reside
• pretty frustrated
• I've used Macs/Apple products ever since the first Mac was introduced
• taking away functionality
• the most talented at Apple likely could easily allow for both in an intuative interface
• absolutely no sense
• they aren't being allowed
• very significant frustrations with all the changes in iCal
• now find very frustrating and dissappointing
• historically loved

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• iCal and Address Book

     
• redesigned
• iCal and Address Book have regressed
• at the cost of usability
• never can you see all
• you could in Snow Leopard
• Nor is it even obvious how to get to
• unusable
• former usability
• not good
• state of iCal
• no persistent
• don't Apple's product managers use iCal?
• iPad, iCal is wonderfully information-dense and fast
• Lion, information is sparse, and editing entries requires many tedious steps
• regressing
• this is too much
• interaction design is terrible
• Lion has visual fidelity
• Apple has failed utterly
• serve the user

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• Aqua defines the look and feel
• Popovers
• can be positioned relative to other content
• separate window
• can be detached

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• the only thing that is driving me insane with #LION is the new #iCal
• minor heart attack

• I don't like this. #iCal

• new #ical looks soooo ugly

• I like Mac OSX Lion sofar, but why the hell did you mess up the #ical and #addressbook interfaces... its damn ugly! #apple #macosxlion

• #lion #ical what were they thinking?

• The new #ical interface is pretty lousy. #apple #osxlion http://bit.ly/plpTLo

• iCal 3.0 lack of sidebar disappointing
• Nov 7, 2007
• lack of a sidebar
• stupid decision
• eye candy
• clicking and bouncing around
• Agreed

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• 07-Nov-2007
• frustrated

• 30-Jan-2008