Week Nine

 http://mashable.com/2007/10/08/online-calendar-toolbox 

JotSync

JotSync is the revolutionary calendar for students. It keeps you connected with students in your university as well as students from universities all over the world. It links with your personal life, school agenda, community and hobbies. The highly customizable interface allows you to tailor JotSync to get the most out of it. When you log into JotSync you can choose from three different interfaces, basic, office or highly customizable depending on your needs. Basic is for non-techie students who need a simple calendar with compact features. Office is for students who not only attend school but work as well, it allows students to organize their student life as well as work life. Highly customizable promotes a lot of features to choose from. You can make your events private for personal use, or go public and have your calendar displayed online. Get your friends to sign up and link with each other’s calendars, making social and school gatherings easier than ever. You can create your own blog, allowing you to see a timeline of your writings, class blog, add pictures and video. Mostly importantly Jot syncs all your calendars into one, where you can view all your agenda. It is a suitcase of your life. 

Week Four

Contacting

Sync: Zyb, Plaxo, ScheduleWorld

Calendar companies: Annomate, CalendarHub, Anywr, Eloops, Planzo, Scrybe

Programmers: Ajax, PHP

 

Finishing existing calendar

Not focusing on add ons too much

(Should it still link to other people calendars?)

 

Making the calendar into an application (php)

Syncing pulling info from vcard on all other calendars

Exchange SmartPhone > Exchange > gCal>Outlook>Google>jot

(Google can sync iCal, Outlook, Yahoo, other can sync ipod, pdas)

 

Jot:

PHP calendar

Ajax intergration to instantly reload parts of the page without needing to refresh (more like a desktop calendar)

Import & Export to the iCal/google format.

No database needed

PDF output

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL support.

Translations

Mobile XHTMLsupport for PDAs and Smartphones

Mobile version?

Run on your own server so it can be customazible

 

More Resources:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305741 

http://www.spanningsync.com/

http://www.gargan.org/extensions/synckolab.html

http://lifehacker.com/software/ask-the-readers/ask-the-readers-how-to-sync-all-address-info-193917.php

http://www.annomate.com

http://www.qtzar.com/blogs/qtzar.nsf/d6plinks/DLYH-5XNL86 

http://www.sync.com/is_desktop_main.html?p=g&ag=3&a=2&gclid=COOe5LO60ZECFQ8OswodyTGVZw

http://www.goodsync.com/land/land.php?affid=gocg6&frm=frame13

http://vcard4outlook.4team.biz/default.asp?pcode=708210240pwkkd3&gclid=COTTnM-60ZECFQ0Bswodxn85bA

 

Week Three

Jot Old  

Week Two

Week 3

-        Research sync applications

-        Streaming

-        Types of calendars on Mac/PC/pda’s

 

Week 4/5/6 

-        Redesigning Interface

-        Making calendar customizable 3 skins: students

                                 personal

                                             businesses

-        Library of icons

-        Ways of logging into other calendars (split view)

-        Video/Pictures

-        Search

-        Widgets (alarm, clock, calculator, weather, recipes)

-        Reminders

 

Week 7/8/9

-        Application

-        Sync calendars + pdas into JotSync

-        Mapping

-        Schematic

-        Devices

-        Aesthetic

 

Week 10/11/12

-        Demo (how the application will work) Flash

 

Week One

Title

JotSync Calendar

 

Statement

Jot is the revolutionary customizable calendar in which you can sync all your calendars from Mac/PC and handhelds such as (cells, pda’s, ipod) into one application.

 

Technology surrounds us everywhere. Our personal data is kept on different technological devices constantly. It is hard to keep track of all the data we put into our gadgets . We use calendars on computers, cells and pdas. There are many different types of calendars that we use too google calendar, yahoo calendar, outlook, ical, blackberry calendar and many more. Jot will be an online calendar that not only syncs all your calendars but also is customizable, and had many other add ons that most calendars don’t have such as video, blog, reminders, pictures, skins, icons, calculator, weather, address book etc and can link to other people Jot calendars.

 

Use Jot to keep track of not only your personal life, but your social life as well. The highly customizable interface allows you to tailor Jot to get the most out of it. You can make your events private for personal use, or go public and have your calendar displayed online. Get your friends to sign up and link with each other’s calendars, making social gatherings easier than ever. You can create your own blog, allowing you to see a timeline of your writings, add pictures and video. Mostly importantly Jot syncs all your calendars into one, where you can view all your agenda. It is a suitcase of your life.

 

Research

http://www.webdeveloper.com/

http://www.jakeludington.com/ask_jake/20060818_how_to_sync_google_calendar_with_outlook_and_smartphones_automatically.html

http://www.diditbetter.com/add2exchange.aspx

http://spanningsync.com/

http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/index.html

 

Work Description

1. Redesign my Jot, add certain features and change interface.

2. Work on application that would sync all calendar and pdas into Jot.

3. Demo on how the application and Jot will work.