• Stuff in bold is stuff we won't have for Cosmo UI Preview
• Stuff in Italics is stuff Cosmo UI Preview will have that's either more than what Google Calendar has or is simply different.

• Cosmo Preview refers to the end-user Casual Collaborator UI, not the advanced filebrowsing / admin UIs.

Creating, Editing and Viewing events

• Quick item entry, aka Quick add

• Click to create a new event in-place on the calendar canvas
• Preview abbreviated details of event in-place on the calendar canvas with a callout
• View full event details on a separate page
• Cosmo: Click to create new event in-place on the calendar canvas, edit details in persistent detail view pane which displays all fields

• Drag to move the event around on the canvas or extend the duration of an event

• Delete events

• More recurrence rules
  • Every week day
  • Every MWF
  • Every TTh

• Search and Advanced search

• 1 Mini-calendar at a time
• Chander: Multi-minicalendars
• Cosmo: Jump to date

Calendar management

• Multiple calendar management, aka Crude overlays
• Per calendar timezone (Although I can't see any visual feedback for timezones, it all seems to display on the canvas wrt absolute time.)

Sharing

• Read/write sharing
• Public calendars
• In-band sharing invitations
• In-band management of sharing invitations and sharees
  • Keep track of who you've invited to share
  • Assign permissions per sharee
  • Add / Delete sharees

In-band scheduling and invitations

• Free/busy workflow
• In-band invitations
• Per invitee event status
• Discussion thread per event
• Cosmo: Addressing Stamp + Mailto link

Email

• Integration with email
  • Adding emails to the calendar
  • Auto-parsing of date/time information
  • Auto-parsing of .ics attachments
  • Receiving notifications via Email for alarms, changes to invitations, replies to invitations, cancelled events and daily agenda
• Cosmo: Mailto link to send notifications of significant edits

Tasks

Privacy and Privileges

• Fine grain control over sharing privileges:
  • Per sharee privileges for calendars: Admin, Edit, Read, Free-busy
  • Per event privileges for invitees: Designate whether invitees can invite others
  • Per calendar and per event privacy settings: Default, Private, Public
• Cosmo: Anonymous read/write access via tickets

Views

• Week view
• Day view
• Month view
• Customizable views: Next x-day views

Notifications for...

• Reminders
• New invitations
• Changed invitations
• Cancelled invitations
• Replies to invitations
• Daily agenda

• All via Email, SMS, or browser Pop-up
• Cosmo: Pops to the top of the NOW section

Preferences

• Language
• Country
• Timezone
• Show/hide timezones
• Date format
• Time format

• Week start-date
• Show/hide weekends
• Designate default view
• Designate custom view (Next # of days)
• Assign location

• Weather in C or F

• Display declined events

• Automatically add invitations to calendar

• Google account settings

Import/Export and Interop

• iCalendar
• Subscribe via Webcal
• GData
• Cosmo: CalDAV, Chandler Morse code

Help

Web 2.0-ness or Integration with other apps

• Search and add events from the web
• Integration with Google maps
• Google Doodles: Weather bugs, Phases of the moon, etc
• Integration with My Google Homepage
• Integration with Google Desktop

• Publish events and calendars to a website

• Cosmo: Chandler Desktop

Mobile Access

• SMS Notifications with SMS
• Add an event via SMS with Verizon

Devices

• No sync?

-- MimiYin - 19 Dec 2006