Ical mini calendar loss

Hear hear!

I used the mini-calendar multiple times a day, I've not once used the "year" view on any device I've ever owned that featured it. Why apple makes us live with such totalitarian choices is baffling and they should assume users want to co-ordinate their work tools to their own preferences.

I like the mini-calendar view, too.

But you are ranting in vain. Only fellow users here. And playing the "switch to Microsoft solution" card is always in bad taste.

Tell apple here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ical.html

charlie

Please bring back the mini-calendar!!!

sigh

I'm still morning the loss of the Mini Calendar. It bugs the **** out of me to go from my weekly view which I generally use to a monthly view just ot see what day a specific date falls. Those Mini Calendars were really usefull. All calendars, even printed versions, have the Mini Calendars somewhere on the page. Why, oh why did they remove something like this!!

I'm getting used to just using the Year view when I would have normally used the mini calendar.

I installed Lion yesterday and find this version of iCAL to be a real disappointment. There are several problems I have with it, but my biggest now is the absent sidebar with the mini calendar, which was so helpful when I need to plan my medications and see the future relative to the present without having to click on another calendar version, like month or year. Please restore the mini-calendar in a Software Update.

A second problem is having to pull down a menu in "View" to see my reminders/to do's, rather than a simple click at the top or bottom of the calendar, and why did you move the "Today" button from left to right? It it ain't broke, don't fix it.

A third problem is the way it looks like a faux leatherette calendar I picked up at my dollar stationary store. Calendars matter to people...we get used to them. More to the point, I just finished reading Steve Job's authorized biography, where elegance, simplicity and user-friendly features were cause for weeks of obsessional thinking and planning. It looks like someone put 1/2 hour into redesigning this without reason and I think Steve would gag, if not have a mini-breakdown, at the diminuation of quality in this current iteration of the iCAL. Someone would certainly be fired.

I just switched to Lion today (because of the loss of sync options with the closing of MobileMe), and I really miss the mini calendars and the sidebar. I just sent the feedback form to Apple also asking for the option to see mini calendars and the sidebar again. I am so disappointed that it's been almost a year of people asking for such a basic thing. I also dislike the "leather" look, and would like an option to make it a plain window like before, but the mini calendar loss afects my daiy use of it so much. I do switch to the year view to see the months but it's a pain because when you are in the edit window of an event then switch view to yearly then back to weekly the edit window closes an you have to start over again. I just like to see it all at once so I can plan things out. I don't want to lose something so basic to the use of any calendar. I am posting this in the hope that Apple will see it and change iCal, but also so that others might be inspired to submit a feedback form about this issue if it affects them. It's hard to believe though that after a year of people complaining about it and nothing changing, that we have any hope of getting mini calendars again. People keep saying "Just use BusyCal", and it looks like a nifty product, but paying an additional $50 to fix what we lost in Lion is so disappointing. Why is iCal not improved in Lion, made more like BusyCal or something amazing? Instead it's cut in half and looks so lame now.