Just a quick update on my comments about the Symbian S60 3rd Edition dashboard — also known as the ”Active Standby” screen — that I mentioned in my previous post:

Quite accidentally, I’ve discovered that I can accomplish the effect I had intended in my complaints about the lack of customization of the Active Standby display (see screenshot at right.) I realized the other day that using the memo field of the calendar application causes the dashboard to display as many independent tasks as I want. Of course, from a usability perspective, the way I’ve done it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, since to-do tasks due today are really what I’m trying to show, and not memos. But if it works, I’ll use it, even if it doesn’t jive with how I’d usually use a calendaring app.

For what it’s worth, the memo field syncs nicely with “all-day events” in Google Calendar, if you happen to sync to it instead of something like Microsoft Outlook (I use Goosync to do this, in case you were wondering; it’s free for basic service, or pay if you want more advanced sync features.)

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