Creating an opportunity calendar proving a challenge. Would like to graphically represent things like ongoing fishing and hunting seasons with color bands that span the appropriate days. Shorter opportunity sessions as appropriate. Goal: easier visual scanning of opportunities for a given time period. I would prefer in an easy edit digital format.

Almost like project management???

Thoughts?

Thanks.

Based on your short description, almost any online calendar service such as Yahoo Calendar , Google Calendar etc can do what you are looking to achieve. They all offer the ability to create and share/edit calendars, send reminder emails to specific people and so on.

Lots of spreadsheet type calendars available. search for spreadsheet calendars. Best if you pencil up a mock of what you want. Either post it here or PM it to me. I mess around with that sort of thing a lot and may have something. But there are so many variables I need to see what you have in mind.

Nomad.

The key is ability to assign a colorbar to a given season, say Spring Turkey, and have it solid across the days of the season. Other seasons to have other distinct colorbars, also spanning solid across their days.

Do you do you need to share the data with others on the net? Teslinhiker is correct about online calendars. Take a look and see if one of those will work for you. If not, I can do something.

How many horizontal lines (for each season) and how many days do you want to see on a page (more data = smaller print). Do you want to print the whole year on a single page, or would you print a sub-set of the year?

Are you comfortable with spreadsheets at least minimally?

Select a row of cells, press a function key. The selected cells would fill with a color and text.

Very easy to do, but need more detail before I build.

If no one else is interested in this, we should take the discussion off forum.

nomad

I am very comfortable with spreadsheets but was hoping to find an application that would be ready to use rather tahn just supporting creation of the calendar. I do not need to share the calendar, though the ability to do so might be nice.

It would be preferable to go from day, week, month, qurter, and year formats. Unknown number of horizantal bands per day until after entering the data; my guess is up to 15 or so.

There are planty of calendar apps out there. Sunbird/lightning (mozillia), rainlendar, etc.
If you already use an existing calendar program, you can always add another category to it then be able to show/hide it. For example I use google calendar now since it syncs with my phone and have my calendar with all my work/holiday/vacation days and anothr calendar for each of my kids showing their school days and days they are off school. This way I can look and coordinate vacation days around holidays or days the kids are off or plan larger project work around days where everyone has a full 5 day week. When/if I ever fo gat a hunting license again I'll just add that schedule as an additional in another color so I can coordinate as well.

OK well hope you find something. Lots of stuff out there, it is just a matter of finding what you want.

Nomad