Swing Calendar Bean

Keeping track of your activities is an important task to increase your chances of success. There are multiple methods to create a schedule of your events, and computer applications help a lot in this regard. A suitable example is Swing Calendar Bean, coming with an intuitive design, and straightforward approach for fast task management.

Note that the application is built to function on any machine equipped with Java Runtime Environment, so you need to make sure it is installed on your PC as well. What’s more, the program itself doesn’t need to be installed, and can easily be carried around on a thumb drive to use wherever needed so you can have the entire schedule with you at all times.

Most of the interface consists of a calendar, with the possibility to switch to different view types. By default, only the current month is displayed. You can choose to switch to a vertical timeline or independent day view. Regardless of the view mode you’re in, navigation is easily done back and forth through dedicated controls.

In case you wondered off too far in time, there’s always the possibility to access the current day to view all items on the list. There are some sample entries just to show an example of how items appear on the calendar. You’re free to include them in your work and change descriptions and time values.

Adding a task, however, can only be done for the current day. This even applies when in a single day view, which has a considerable impact on practicality. A task consists of a description, time range, and completion status. Items can’t be removed, and there’s no possibility to configure alerts.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Swing Calendar Bean is a little underprepared for what it wants to deliver, even if the objective is simple. The visual design is decent and options are intuitive enough. However, practicality has a lot to suffer because of the lack of a notification system, or freedom to add items in any selected day.