dbosk
commented
4 years ago People (me) usually have several calendars to keep e.g. work and private life separate. However, one must always manually keep track of potential overlap to not become double booked. The scheduling must know which calendars to take into consideration.
I have two types of events: immutable and mutable; immutable: sleep, breakfast, scheduled meetings; mutable: time to do things.
I need to solve problem X, it's not important when I do it (usually a far away deadline), just that I get some time to do it (a few days or few weeks). I usually put this time in the calendar, a few hours of X here and there, enough to fill my estimate of required time.
As always, things come up. I need to put a meeting in the middle of my time working on X. With normal calendars, this meeting will show up beside my scheduled time on X. That's not desirable. I should be able to add the meeting (immutable) in the middle of my time on X (mutable) and the calendar automatically pushes X forward (as a true insert operation).
This also requires one to distinguish multiple calendars belonging to me (private, work calendars) and calendars of others (spouse, colleagues, etc.).
SkedPal solves this problem, however, it uses a fuzzy scheduler. I prefer a deterministic one.