WWDC '08: Justin Williams and Today 1.2

Second Gear's Justin Williams released Today 1.2, um ... today. Justin (also known for PocketTweets) says he's shooting for a release every month -- just to keep things lively -- but he's managed to pack some big upgrades in despite the tight timeframe. You'll find a few nice UI tweaks and some massive date selection improvements, along with further incorporation of Leopard's own Mail and iCal.

I interviewed Justin at WWDC, and he demonstrated the current-at-the-time incarnation of Today for me, but before I got the video uploaded he'd already added new features and asked if he could send me some updated footage. I took him up on it, and edited together a screencast of the latest update with a conversation from last week. That's right, let's do the time warp (again). Speaking of time warps, I'll have to ask Justin how he got June confused with November ... that'll make more sense after the jump.

[Viddler Link|QuickTime Version]

You can try Today out for free, and license it for $15.

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Source: http://secondgearllc.com/today/

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niclet

Hey! Justin. Thanks for the localization version ;)

June 25 2008 at 9:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Karl Lindsay

It's very much like the My Day app that comes with Entourage in Microsoft Office '08. Although My Day is not colour coded (excuse my Australian spelling) and you can't create new events for Entourage. 'Today' looks good - is it ever going to be free?

June 25 2008 at 7:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Andy

Yep, I agree that it bears an interesting resemblance in both form and function to My Day. My Day doesn't let you create events, but does let you color code--just assign the event or to do a category.

June 26 2008 at 10:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Steve

Hey Justin ... great program .. wish the task display could be sorted by at least title alpha .. instead of random selection .. if that can happen .. let me know how ... thanks

June 25 2008 at 7:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jo jo the dancer

Wow, love it. Still wished it worked.

Today 1.2, will often not display, or will incorrectly display, some calendars. The issues appear to be related to handling subscription calendars and/or events that begin on 1 day and finish on the next (like my wife's nightshift from 7 PM to 7:30 am).

Here's looking forward to 1.3

June 25 2008 at 4:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Why does viddler always make Safari eat all my RAM?

June 25 2008 at 11:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bob

they should have an option like istat menu does, only istat doesnt allow adding of events etc, then id get this.

June 25 2008 at 11:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Geoff

"Today is November 24th."

Heh.

June 25 2008 at 11:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Justin Williams

I am obviously a software developer, not a public speaker. :-)

Regarding the Spaces issue brooklynguy is talking about, it's an issue with how OS X handles items without a Dock icon. If you want Spaces to behave normally, use it in Dock mode instead of menu-bar mode. I've got bugs filed with Apple, but who knows if/when they'll be fixed.

June 25 2008 at 2:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brooklynguy

Justin's a great guy, and this is a great app. I have problems getting 1.1 to work with Leopard's Spaces feature. Hopefully that's fixed in this release.

June 25 2008 at 10:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Brooklynguy

Nope, no work-ee with Spaces. If you DON'T assign it in Spaces, and say you launch it in Space 3, and then navigate to Space 8, you CANNOT use Command-Tab to get back to it. And if you assign it to All Spaces under Spaces, it does NOT appear in all Spaces, and you STILL can't navigate to it with Command-Tab. So there is no way to get it to appear natively in all Spaces. Why do so many developers have a problem with this? Twhirl, Things, and Journler work when set to All Spaces.

June 25 2008 at 11:43 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply