[Sketch: Among the more important items to define clerly in this section are the details of how Edit.Find works. We should check out the details of how it works in other systems.]

2.8.2. Preferences

Among the other options, there should be some for little things. Here's the beginnings of a list:

• (yes/no) remind on File Save As -- turn on/off the reminder about only the default calendar name being used for group scheduling purpose.

• day time granularity
• displayed times of the day
• displayed days of the week

2.8.2.2.1. List Length

The length of each of the four categories of list is controlled by the dialog shown in figure 63. The dialog controls allow the user to specify the number of items before and after a specified date. For example, the dialog settings shown in Figure 63 show the user having specified the following format for the display of item lists:

• the appointments list is 100 elements long, starting with today's date
• the meetings list is 75 elements long, starting at seven days before today
• the length of the task list is unlimted, i.e., all tasks currently scheduled in the calendar are displayed in the task list
• the length of the events list is 25 elements long, starting with today's date

Hmm ... now that I'm doing this, I'm thinking that maybe we should just make this part of the regular filtering section, so that we maintain orthogonality. We need to think about this. An immediate question in this regard is do we really need to provide both a list-length feature as well as start/end date means to specify the number of items in a list. Curiously, this is pretty much the same concept as specifying start/end versus start/duration item lengths.

2.8.2.3. Advanced Options

A useful but low priority option would be to find all events that have reminders turned on. This would be useful to me because I may have accidently turned on a reminder when I didn't want to, or forgot to turn on a reminder for something I should have. Anyway, this is a low priority requirement.