Ask HN: what do you think is the best UI for setting up recurrence?

Re:Ask HN: what do you think is the best UI for setting up r... by jaymon on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @04:19PM (#1196698)

A lot of what is "best" has to do with how specific you want to be. Appending "every" to a date is great if you want something to occur every N. But what if you want it to occur every other N? Or the first N of every M? There's a reason why things like Crontab or iCalendar's RRULE are so specific and verbose.

In order to decide what is "best" I would first decide how specific I needed to be and then start to narrow my input options based on my defined need.

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Re:Ask HN: what do you think is the best UI for setting up r... by mmelin on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @04:27PM (#1196711)

I agree. The iCalendar specification allows for some crazy complexity, but I'm not sure I've seen a UI that allows you to use every feature possible with the spec.

I'd think you could do a "discoverable" UI, where the default case is is relatively simple but you can expand recurrence options when needed.

If anyone has an example of this being implemented I would appreciate a pointer.

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