![]() ![]() The file CalendarExt.dll needs to be placed in the ToDoList directory. And he gave me extensive advice on how to go about writing my own ToDoList Calendar plug-in. dan.g.'s own ToDoList, so I decided to help him out. Of course, I could have tried to export my data somehow and import it into another program, but where's the fun in that? This was already on. What I needed was a calendar-type view within the ToDoList itself. What I wanted was a quick overview of my progress against the schedule, a visualization of my project. ![]() I couldn't visualize my progress in my head, no matter how accurate/up-to-date the Start/Due Dates were. So, I started spending a lot of time setting the Start Date and Due Date for all my tasks, but this just wasn't enough. Get 'em wrong and it could mean a visit to the Jobcentre. Having a large number of tasks and subtasks poses a problem because it is difficult to figure out how far ahead/behind of schedule you are (after all, these are what your boss cares about. "Aaaaaah ahaa ahaaaaa someday we will find the cities of gold." - quality!). I now break down all my tasks recursively into squillions of subtasks and my memory is no longer required (leaving it free to concentrate on other equally important things, such as my favourite Bill Hicks jokes, or the theme tune to the Mysterious Cities Of Gold. Now to be honest I have a memory worse than a goldfish, so finding the ToDoList was a godsend. Previously I had to try to actually remember (ugh) every minor thing that needed to be done before I could regard a task as fully completed. ![]() dan.g.'s mighty ToDoList, it made me rethink the way I approached my tasks. If you're here for reason #1 and scared of reason #2, please don't worry. You may want to go that one step further and write your own plug-in.You might simply want to download the DLL and get a useful Calendar view of your task list.This article is an attempt to describe how I created a Calendar plug-in for. (Current version: 1.0 - released 6 Jun, 2008) Introduction ![]()
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