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Work has been going well on Ink Calendar 2.1. The major new feature is selection time. This feature is simple; on week and month views, show text of when the selected ink is. There is a dot which will highlight the exact location being picked when trying to understand the date.I personally find this feature useful when planning out an itinerary for trips. When I’m zoomed in tight on a week view it can be hard to tell which hour is which and which day is which. Now with selection time it is obvious.In addition to selection time 2.1 should be faster to load views, more memory efficient, and hopefully fixes a few bugs.As always, thanks for using Ink Calendar,Joe I have now handed off Ink Calendar 2.0 to the Microsoft Store. The update will be rolling out soon. This update brings 3 major features:Cloud syncing with OneDriveNew App IconNew symbols throughout the appAs always, reach out on twitter (@TheJoeFin) or email support at Ink Calendar dot com to let me know what you think of the app.Joe For years I’ve been adding features to Ink Calendar making it more complex. At the same time I’ve been tracking and squashing bugs. This is the classic cycle of app development. With Ink Calendar 1.27 I’ve broken the UI elements into smaller chunks making it easier to reuse them and to find exactly where the bugs are happening.Since Ink Calendar uses calendar data from Windows 10 that means many of the calendar views are drawn using async methods. Understanding failures in async methods via AppCenter can be tricky. By breaking down the rendering of each UI component into their own UserControl I’ve been able to narrow down exactly where errors are occuring.Another way 1.27 is more reliable and robust will be in the settings page. The page loading sequence has been reordered to put the longest running tasks at the back and let data validation occur while those long running tasks are happening. Now working hours, agenda start/stop, and week start/stop times should all validate before saving bad data. This was an issue which can be hard to find on my development machine because usually the settings page loaded so fast, but personal usage on my Surface Go highlighted this problem.The work done in 1.27 doesn’t bring any new major features to users, but should enable me to do some cool view blending in the future. Now that each of these controls are broken out on their own they can be inserted into different views in different ways. Look forward to a possible new blog post about how views could be changing. As always, thank you for using Ink Calendar. If you encounter any issues please email support at inkcalendar dot com, and if you have any suggestions or ideas I’m always interested to hear!Joe Ink Calendar now makes use of WinUI with version 1.26. In addition to this new modern UI framework comes many changes and bug fixes throughout the app.

One of the elements of Ink Calendar which has been improved is when tapping the canvas even when Ink is not selected the Ink Actions menu appears to make you more productive and bring information to your fingertips. Previously tapping on the inking canvas would just select ink. Now tapping the canvas invokes the Ink Actions menu with a new day button. This button when tapped shows appointments and the ability to quickly jump to different views. The new improvement to the Ink Actions menu means you can more quickly see appointments and can more fluidly switch between days. When in the year view tapping on any day will enable the Ink Actions menu to show appointments for that day. Quickly zoom into a view or skim a quick list of appointments. In addition to this working on the year view, it also works when tapping the month days shown on the day view. Quickly peak into another day and see what you have going on. In addition to these changes there have been many bug fixes throughout the app. One major change is handling the way Ink Calendar interacts with the Windows 10 Calendar data. Now when Ink Calendar does not have access to the calendar data the user is notified with a list of steps to take. If you have any feedback about Ink Calendar don’t hesitate to email support at inkcalendar.comJoe After releasing Ink Calendar 1.25.3 work began on bringing appointments to the custom views. No major issues were found with the custom views, but there have been nagging bugs within Ink Calendar which have been very difficult to understand what is happening. In addition to rewriting the appointment render logic I have been focusing on every error I see in Microsoft AppCenter.AppointmentsAdding appointments to custom views meant writing as a patchwork of controls which held the smallest size of a appointment canvas. For example the month view shows appointments for a single day, but multi-day appointments stretch over a single day. This means there needs to be a control which displays a week of days and overlays appointments correctly.Fighting BugsWith all new features there is the possibility of bugs and crashes. One of the more common crashes I was seeing after introducing Custom Views was “The added or subtracted value results in an un-representable DateTime.” It is unclear why or when this happens. I have several theories but none of them seem to remove this issue altogether. The issue can be mitigated by making sure the DateTime isn’t of year 0 which would not work when adding a previous year. However maybe this issue happens because the ViewStateHistory list crashes due to File Access Violations. This is also unclear because the actual failure has nothing to do with the ViewStateHistory. What makes me think the ViewStateHistory could be involved is a blank ViewStateHistory could drive the main view constructor to start from a DateTime of 0,0,0.All this to say bugs are tricky and the hardest part

Diverse and rich color pallet which should make a great background behind the acrylic calendars.That is it for now, thanks again for using Ink Calendar.Joe Update 1.19 is rolling out to the Microsoft Store now. This update brings a highly requested features: natural swiping between views. Now you can change the view by swiping or by clicking the next/previous buttons as always. This change introduced a fairly major change to the way Ink Calendar handles the different sets of ink + calendars. I have done lots of testing for performance and found it to be acceptable. However it is impossible for me to test every device. I’ll be watching the crash statistics and will continue to optimize Ink Calendar with future updates.Hopefully this update makes Ink Calendar more natural and easier to use. If you have suggestions, comments, or feedback then please reach out by email ([email protected]) or twitter (@thejoefin). Thanks again for using Ink Calendar.JoeP.S. If you are a digital artist using Ink Calendar and are interested in being paid for some promotional artwork please reach out and we can work something out. Current Time and Textures" data-image-caption="Current Time and Textures" data-medium-file=" data-large-file=" In the latest update there are two visible features added to the Week View. The first is a line showing the current time (of the current week). The other visible change is a texture given to calendar appointments to distinguish between different states of ‘busy.’ These textures mirror the ones provided by Windows for continuity and clarity. The current time indicator for the month view looks the same, but now will move to the next day if Ink Calendar is left open over night. In the same way the Week View current time indicator will move to indicate the current time when the app is left open. This makes it easy to locate where “NOW” is when glancing at a week view. Other than these changes I have made improvements to the way the Week View displays appointments. There was some odd behavior happening when there were several overlapping appointments. Also appointments sometimes not showing the correct end time when the appointment crosses over between weeks has also been fixed.Thanks for using Ink Calendar. Let me know what you think and what you’d like to see improved.Joe Summer has been a busy time. I have been working on big changes to Ink Calendar. Mostly these changes have been in the way new calendars are generated. I moved a lot of the code around and have been working on getting it functioning the way it should.The reason I’m making these big changes to Ink Calendar are to enable swiping between views. I’ve been breaking all the different UI elements into their own User Controls and abstracting the code which generates a view for the given date range.So far it has been very successful but I still need to do a lot of work to optimize the experience. I don’t want to push an update which slows down

New Arrivals: Are You Ready for Inkvent/Colorvent? How About a Green Lamy 2000! October 22, 2024 It’s calendar season! And not just time to pre-order your 2025 planners, but it’s also time to pick up the Advent-style calendar of your choice. This year, we’re fortunate enough to be able to offer two limited edition “ink calendars”: the Inkvent “Black Edition” Calendar from Diamine, and the new “Colorvent” Calendar from Colorverse! If you recall, last year I had an absolute blast working my way through the 2023 Inkvent set, and I ended up recording a short video of each ink as I opened and swatched it. I plan to do the same this year, though I’m still trying to decide whether to pick one of the two calendars or try to do both. Any suggestions?!?I will add that if you have your heart set on a Colorvent Calendar, these are in extremely short supply. We have a fairly large allocation of the Inkvent Calendars but don’t sleep on the Colorverse as they are rapidly selling out. Our allocation should arrive later this week or early next and will ship immediately as soon as we have them. The 58th Anniversary Lamy 2000 Lands in the Shop!I’m personally tempted on this one, but I also need to pay inventory bills for the holidays! We’ve received a number of the latest Lamy 2000 limited edition fountain pens in a dark “Pine” green color. Each pen ships in a luxury gift set, featuring a matching dark green notebook and a biography of Gerd A. Müller, designer of the Lamy 2000 and other products. The pens are in our hands and available to ship immediately, and can be seen in-person at our brick-and-mortar location. Don’t Forget About Our Ongoing Free Ink Promotion! From now until Fountain