This a beautifully designed web calendar. It has a lot of AJAX smoothness, which make for a very nice UI experience. It’s easy to enter events and you can change calendar views with little trouble. I’d like the option to reduce the calendar view from the current minimum of 4 weeks to just 1 week. Even better would be a way to drill right down into 1 day on the main page – currently you can do that via a pop-up, as the following screenshot shows:
The additional functionality and web services hook-ins are impressive. You can integrate services such as Flickr, LiveJournal, MySpace, upcoming.org, weather, indeed any RSS feed. It also supports standards like vCard and iCalendar.
Overall, I’m encouraged enough with 30Boxes to continue using it as my main calendar. It certainly has a much better UI than Outlook and I’m looking forward to testing the ‘Buddies’ functionality, which is the type of collaboration feature that will differentiate Web office products from their desktop counterparts.
And now I can stop using my paper notebooks as a calendar! 🙂 As a potential part of a Web Office Suite, which is my hobby horse right now, 30Boxes is a promising product.
Note: I’m testing the Structured Blogging plug-in for MT, so that’s why this page looks like it does. There are some bugs to iron out – e.g. MT automatically published this review before I was ready! But overall, structured blogging is the future of reviews – and lots of other things. So I’m going to be using it a lot 🙂
Originally published on ReadWriteWeb (archived copy)