Gcal Color Code Script

On more tidbit for you (especially if you use Google Calendar):

I just finished coding this weekend a little greasemonkey script for Google Calendar. If you're not familiar with greasemonkey, it's a Firefox extension that lets you use small javascripts to modify the way websites appear in your browser. It's pretty handy for somethings and there's a large body of user contributed scripts that fix all sorts of web annoyances and add needed features.

My script is designed to let me color code the events in my calendar according to the categories I use to keep track of my time. The script could also be used for any other sort of color coding you might want to do. I wrote the script because Google only lets you use one color code per calendar, which is great when you're comparing your schedule with your friends, but bad when you want to see which of your appointments are classes and which are meetings, etc.

To use the script, you just add a tag like "!class" or "!work" to the title of one of your events. The script adds a little icon to the calendar list on the right hand side; you click it to switch between Google's color codes and the custom set. Perhaps some screen shots will help explain:

Using Google's colors:


Using user colors:


You can download the script at userscripts.org if you're interested. It's pretty easy to make your own categories and colors, you just find the tag in the script and replace it with a new one, or modify the RGB values for the background and border assigned to the tag e.g.:
'colors["!hw"] = new Array("rgb(103,51,0)","rgb(143,86,40)");'

Ok that's all the advertising for today, hope at least some of you found it interesting/want to try it out. (If you're not using Google Calendar, but are looking for a calendar program, you might take a look at it, it's pretty useful.)