@Brendan_Woithe yeah I get it, its kind of abstract so an example should help:
Hopefully this really inspires you! Let me know if you have any ideas on how to improve it.
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Hey this trick from @Paul_Danyliuk might provide some relief to your problem:
Fun fact: was looking into Coda’s calendar view for the first time today… aaaand it sucks 
Very limited indeed; you really want to use something else @Brendan_Woithe
Yeah its tricky.
I’ve ended up creating a bunch of coloured emoji to help communicate whats going on for a booking!
Unfortunately, working with gcal is not seamless enough for us at the moment. So we’re stuck with the cal view that coda provides.
This is where we have got to.
(Its from last week so all the sessions are marked complete… thus the little tick emoji
We use things like the people emoji to show a session has clients coming, change the colour of the first emoji to red if its an urgent session, use a microphone to show we are doing a recording etc.
And then just rely on the roll-overs to show more info.
This is kinda ok. Where it really falls down is when our producer is out on the road with a phone. We don’t have ANY solution for that right now. She’s really finding it hard to schedule things when not in the office, and I’m not sure what the solution for that is.
Ah - fun right???!
(Calendar views was one of the few things that notion REALLY had some advantages in for us. In the end, the formula implementation and lack of API made us jump to coda, but this really does just help demonstrate that there is no perfect solution for anything! Just making the right compromises / choices along the way…)
You can also have conditional formatting to control calendar bubble background FYI. Just need to select “all columns” to apply formatting to.
What is the calendar bubble background? Not sure what you mean.
I’ve got our bookings showing up as three different colours depending on which studio is booked (light blue, grey and light purple… we’re really just trying everything out on one studio, which is why they’re mostly all blue right now!)
I’m secretly hoping you mean something else…it would be useful to have more colours come up.
No, not something else I’m afraid. Event color was what I meant.
Hi All
Just wondering if anyone has found a solution to getting more information into the calendar view? That single line simply doesn’t work…especially if you are trying to print a copy…
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Anyone else had any new ideas on this? I would highly value being able to include more info in the calendar view!
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