Dateline - add a linear calendar to your Mac's desktop | TUAW

I love simple utilities, and Dateline certainly fits that bill. This small application puts a linear calendar on your screen that shows a dot on the current date, and will jump to a given date in iCal if you double-click it. That's pretty much the full extent of what Dateline does, but in this case simplicity equals elegance.

Considering its functionality, Dateline contains a reasonably complete set of preferences that control how it is displayed. You can choose the colors and opacity for each visual element, the size of the overall date line, the window level (as Gruber points out, setting this to Desktop icons seems to be the most reasonable setting), whether or not to show the month's name, and the option to hide the app's icon in the dock.

After trying it for only a couple minutes, Dateline immediately went into my list of applications that automatically open at login.

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clasqm

Phil: You can drag it by the month's name at the top left.

Doubleclicking does work, but you have to aim the cursor very well, it really has to be right in the middle of a day number. Click once to make Dateline the active app, then doubleclick to bring up iCal. oK, so that's more of a tripleclick

July 11 2009 at 4:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Phil

Anyone know how to move it? It is always at the top of my screen.

July 10 2009 at 9:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

nicleT

Would be great if it was localized ;)
And double-clic doesn't work for me - probably because my System is in french Quebecois.

July 10 2009 at 8:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

devyn

Perfect! I've been looking for exactly this for a while (and not really wanting to mess around with GeekTool). Awesome.

iCal launch works for me.

Though I can't really see a difference between "desktop" and "desktop icons", though maybe it's just how I'm set up.

July 10 2009 at 6:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ben

The iCal double clicking works as advertised for me.

July 10 2009 at 5:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dorv

I would like this program A LOT more if it didn't show up in the Command-Tab.

July 10 2009 at 5:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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JuanD

Me neither, no matter what I do it just dosen't launch ical.....

July 10 2009 at 5:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Peter AndrÃ©n

Is it just me or.. I can't get the double-click to work. Doesn't jump to iCal...

July 10 2009 at 5:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Microdot

its nice... but if it integrated with ical (as in... marked days that have events in ical) it would be EXTREMELY useful.

July 10 2009 at 4:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jim Gaynor

Funny.

Dateline was listed on Smashing Magazine on Sunday.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/05/25-open-source-mac-apps-that-will-boost-your-productivity/

HiveLogic mentioned it Thursday morning.
Gruber mentioned it Thursday afternoon.
And good ole TUAW gets to it on Friday.

Always fun to watch something go semi-viral.

July 10 2009 at 3:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply