I modified the embedded view in the Welcome page to color-code the entries by date:

http://www.cratchit.org/VIC/Screenshots/WelcomeColor.png



Not a huge change programmatically, but a big step forward in user-friendliness. I've occasionally missed a To-do in the past because I've not paid attention to the Welcome view. (Some items don't really rate setting an alarm, but should still be "promoted" to the user somehow. This is a balance between being too annoyingly obtrusive and missing out.



Items due today show up as red text on a pale yellow background.

Past dues are red text on white. Everything else is the default color (alternate row color is unaffected).



The view is byProfDateNoPastDates | Welcome.

There's a new column inserted before SortedDate. It's set to "Use Value as Color" with this formula:



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system := -1:-1:-1;

red := 255:0:0;

paleyellow := 255:255:208;

white := 255:255:255;

@If(StartDate=@Today;paleyellow:red; StartDate<@Today;white:red; system)

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(Here are other color codes if you want to change them to some distasteful HotDog scheme):

system := -1:-1:-1;

red := 255:0:0;

redbkgd := 255:221:221;

blue := 0:0:255;

blue2 := 0:0:128;

bluebkgd := 221:221:255;

purple := 128:0:128;

darkgreen := 0:160:0;

greenbkgd := 221:255:221;

brown := 130:66:0;

yellow := 255:255:0;

paleyellow := 255:255:208;

tan := 224:161:117;

defaultcolor := 0:0:0;

pink := 255:193:253;

white := 255:255:255;

black := 1:1:1;

apricot := 255:155:133;