I’m looking for software that I can’t seem to find.
For a big historic research project, I’d like to keep track of when things happened on a large calendar. Calendar programs are easy to find and creating calendars aren’t hard either. But what I want is a calendar that’s accessible just by entering a date. Standard calendar programs have back and forth buttons to click on and that’s worthless if I’m trying to go back to 1905 or whatever. I haven’t found any Word add-ons that create more than a year at a time either.
What I’d like is a calendar that will open, accept any date, allow me to write notes and information into a date box and maybe even show a timeline for how long an event took place. And have it be scrollable so that it’s easy to go from year to year or even decade to decade. That may be more than freeware, but I hope not much more.
Well, cmd-N and “Dentist appointment on 12/3/1905” will add something directly on that day without first navigating to it. (I first tried “..on 12th of March 1905” and it ignored the year).
There’s also Go To Date, cmd-shift-T, where you can enter a date to navigate to it. It’s a masked input field like “dd/mm/yyyy” (presumably in your locale’s date format). I hit the right arrow twice then typed 1905.
I would create it as a big spreadsheet with a worksheet for each year. There would a cell for each day in the year. It should be easy to create a macro or script to go direct to the day you want.
It is hard to be specific without knowing what spreadsheet programs you have available to you.