{"id":156,"date":"2007-10-20T16:01:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T23:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/10\/20\/calendars-are-key-2\/"},"modified":"2007-10-20T16:02:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T23:02:59","slug":"calendars-are-key-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/10\/20\/calendars-are-key-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Calendars are key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripit.com\">Tripit <\/a>is nice; forward it your itineraries (car rental, hotel arrangements, flight info&#8230;) and it will organize and track them for you.  It&#8217;ll even hook up to an iCal-compatible calendar &#8212; Google Calendar for instance &#8212; although it only pushes out summary information, at least as far as I can tell.  But the concept suggests to me that Google Calendar, rather than another startup, is the place for this kind of thing; it would be cool if Gmail got smarter about reading my email and could, for example, figure out that this is a travel itinerary with departure and arrival times and offer to put that into my calendar for me.  This is a very extensible idea: Amazon sends me structured text emails with purchase and shipment notifications which would be nice to see on my calendar if I so chose.  The package that I ordered two days ago is scheduled to arrive tomorrow and here&#8217;s the tracking number.  That sort of thing.  Email is the conduit and the representation of time on a calendar is one other display mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>Given the importance of calendars to peoples&#8217; daily lives for the past N-thousand years, it&#8217;s terrifying how little progress has been made in using technology tools to simplify and manage calendar information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"poweredbyperformancing\">(Posted, as an experiment, using <a href=\"http:\/\/scribefire.com\/\">ScribeFire<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tripit is nice; forward it your itineraries (car rental, hotel arrangements, flight info&#8230;) and it will organize and track them for you. It&#8217;ll even hook up to an iCal-compatible calendar &#8212; Google Calendar for instance &#8212; although it only pushes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/10\/20\/calendars-are-key-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-2w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}