Calendar UI needs big improvement

I'd say, move the year to the right, thus: "Today, 16 July 2014". Other than that, I agree, this is a considerable improvement.

On top center, just put the month and year. On both sides of the month/year, just place 1 arrow to show we need to swipe to access the next/previous month. Then, right below the month/year, place weekdays. Basically, just check the N9 calendar for reference. Nokia designed the UI almost perfectly there.

oh... and I'd keep the peek view for the week number. Alternatively, it could be selected as an option to be always displayed.

@chinauser, thanks for your comments, but I have no need to recreate the N9 calendar in Sailfish style – if that indeed is the ideal UI, then I'll just leave that to Jolla. :) I just took the calendar as it is now and tested what could be done with small changes.

I like to have week numbers visible, but like I said, that could be optional – I know that all people don't need them.

@ssahla whatever can be done easily is already warmly welcome. Thanks!

I agree that spacing or some other subtle way of separating the weekend would be enough.

In the N9, the weekend days are with a different color. This little trick makes it easier to identify the weekend.

With the use of spacing the colours are freed to signify something else.

I´ve tried out aCalendar, but unfortunately it doesn´t work, because I wasn´t able to make aCalendar synchronize with caldav accounts on Jolla and birthdays in contacts app.

I know, aCalendar is actually tied to Google calendar - as far as I know. That's another reason, why I don't use it on my Jolla phone.

My recomendation mainly refers to its UI.

In case of aCalendar at an android phone I can say that it is also compatible with others than Google calendar. On my old HTC it worked with caldav on fruux and via birdiesync and usb with thunderbirds calendar on my pc. Apart from this I agree with you, that aCalendars UI offers some features I would love to see in my Jolla calendar app :-)

I understood the issue of jumping to the time around midnight is supposed to be fixed in 1.1..39 version., isn't it?

I hate to admit it but many users concede that the Microsoft calendar used in Office/Outlook/Mail got it mostly right and gives an idea of how it can be does in a user friendly fashion.

This is something that I disliked with iOS 7. It makes sense I that you get a continuously scroll, but when you switch days and weeks horizontal, switching months (and years) vertical is unlogical imo. Maybe it's because I'm used to the old way and will adapt (though I regularly using the calendar in iOS 7 and still haven't gotten in to it), but I don't think mixing element behaviors in the same application is good. If you want to scroll in time it should be consistent through the application.

Eloquently put, but the direction of months, weeks, days and hours is still just a matter of taste. I would be perfectly happy if I could get a zoomable line instead. The weeks of summer to plan my chopped-up holidays. Just the weekend when my brother gets married and my fiancee comes here by plane. The complications of the 12 days of christmas. Sometimes the default boundaries simply suck.

The Calendar month layout resembles the traditional wall calendar: days side by side, weeks on top of each other, and months on different pages. Following this metaphor, it would be natural to switch days horizontally and months vertically (because you turn the page up when changing to the next month). Still, I find it more natural that the next month is on the right. Maybe it's because in computer UIs "next" is more often right than down.

Of course we don't need to stick to the wall calendar metaphor and model the UI after that. But even without skeuomorphism, I think that kind of metaphors are where the notions of "natural" directions come for many users. But like @vattuvarg said, it's a matter of taste... is time flowing vertically or horizontally? Or in a cycle? :)

But @vattuvarg, that kind of zoom, with the level of details adapting to the zoom level, would be great!