Representation of Time in Digital Calendars

Digital calendars have been heavily influenced by the design of the physical calendar and have invariably adopted their grid representation of days in the month. We argue that the alternative of a continuous list representation of successive days would offer several advantages such as faster calendar search, a more natural linear view of time, a scrollable and zoomable interface and better scalability for devices of different size. This prospect brings new design opportunities, especially for modern, touch-centric operating systems where a linear representation could benefit from the native support of scrolling and zooming.