Tuesday, December 30, 2003

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Color Coding Months in Outlook All-too-frequently, I will enter an Outlook appointment for the wrong date. Most often, it will be the right date for the wrong month. This usually happens because I left my calendar "open" to some future month. I think there is an easy useability improvement that would help save me from this careless error: color-coding each month. So, if I were used to looking at December's dark blue background, and went to enter in January an appointment meant for December, I would immediately notice January's bright green background, before I could follow-through on my error. My second most common form of this error is to enter an appointment for the right day of the wrong week. A similar solution here would be to have a background pattern of some sort (think cross-hatching schemes, though I'm sure the graphic artists at MS could do much better than that) to denote the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th weeks of each month. 10:12:01 AM    comment []