Marcus Bains Line:
A Necessary Feature for Every Calendar Program
Ali Rahimi (
) (Oct 20, 2000)
) (Oct 20, 2000)
Here is a blowup of a screenshot of the Marcus Bains extension to ical-2.2.
The red line tells you exactly where you stand with respect to your appointments.
I can't get in touch with ICal's maintainer. To add a Marcus Bains
Line to your ICal, download the site.tcl file
and place it in the lib/ical/v2.2/ directory. Here's the
full ICal 2.2 screenshot.
A patch has been submitted to the Korganization. Hopefully it will appear in the next release of KOrganizer. Here's a KOrganizer screenshot. Here's the patch, to apply to the KOrganizer source tree.
Daniel Hsu has modified the MBL for Ical 2.
Thouis "Ray" Jones has ported the MBL to Evolution.
Port to a very old platform indeed!: "During the day I manually draw Marcus-Bains lines and slash across the past as the day slips away. That also gives me a clue as to how often I'm reviewing tasks."
It seems that Microsoft has finally incorporated the MBL in their Outlook calendar program.
A Greasemonkey script that implement the Marcus Bains line for Google Calendar.
Apple's iCal has also caught up and is using a fairly crude MBL.
And of course, we are all in deep debt to Marcus Bains for his brilliant idea.
