Configurable timespan to highlight (not “today” only) and more precise “time to event”

[fraengers]

As someone who tends to not care about what absolute time or date it is (i.e. I just want to know how much time I have left to an event), I think the "number of days to event" text and the today-highlighting should have an option to be relative and more precise.

Let’s say I have an event: ”tomorrow, 1am, get wife from airport”.
Right now it would display as “in 1 day” or “tomorrow” with no highlighting and when I check right before I go to bed at 11pm I would think this event is tomorrow as in: after I have slept. I would probably not realize that this event is in 2 hours and miss it.

So it would be really helpful to display not “today” and “tomorrow” etc., but “in 1 day”, “in 5 hours”, “in 31 min”, “now”, and stuff like highlighting not to be depending on “today” and “future”, but on “within a configurable timespan” and “outside of that timespan”.

[yvolk]

@fraengers Thank you, interesting point of view. Looking from it we can say that now we have:

• only one "preconfigured timespan", for which events are specially highlighted: today;
• only one "time to event" measurement unit: day.

We have related request #14 about events highlighting: "More options for near/far events display customization"

[yvolk]

Here is an opinion on this topic of one of our users:

I just started using the color setting and found it great.
I was able to set the Widget header colour and Today's events.
These were great. what do you think of having a Tomorrow events setting as well.
then still continue with the Future events.
I never realised how useful the colour settings can be.
at a glance to notice if anything was set for Today, or Tomorrow, by just noticing the colour."
Anyway, is that a possibility for a Tomorrow setting?
Maybe then five or six days after tomorrow in customize colour as well.
...
Do you really want to go down to Days, hours, and minute reminders... it's my notifications that remind me of events.

This is not about notifications replacement, as I see. This is about easily and quickly understand, how far from now is the event I'm looking at.
"Tomorrow" or "In 3 hours" is really a great difference.
Just like "October 10" and "In 49 days".

This depends on what kind of events you have in your widget and how you use them.
For example, I have "My wife's birthday" event in a widget. I don't need the widget to tell me, at what month and day my wife's birthday is: I remember this. It's much more interesting for me to know, how many days left to that event.

Example with a flight that can happen at night is also very impressive. It's very easy to confuse the day (actually, late evening), when you need to leave your house for the airport... until you see that the flight is e.g. in 6 hours.

Above thoughts don't mean that I don't like ToDo Agenda widget to have separate color settings for Tomorrow.