Powertoys: Add Calendar Week Numbers to systray calendar

[Kardzhilov]

Some places use week numbers on their calendars as of right now the only way to get them on windows tray is to use third party calendars.

[crutkas]

hi @kardzhilov, can you provide a screenshot or example of what you're thinking here? just want to be sure we're 100% understanding what you're thinking here

[Kardzhilov]

Sure @crutkas here is the functionality in ubuntu

[crutkas]

Super helpful as i had a slightly different mental model for this.

Can you help give me one more bit on how you leverage the weeks of the year? I understand you need them, just trying to understand the scenario a bit more for your use case.

[Kardzhilov]

Some countries refer to time periods using week numbers instead of dates.

If you are a student you might get told that an assignment is due week 37, or if you are taking vacation days you might say that you will be on vacation week 43-45. In the Norwegian school system week 40 is always the fall break.
It is not heavily in use day to day but it does get used enough to the point where it is annoying having to google "week X" to check when it is instead of being able to look at the calendar.

The windows 10 calendar app does support them but it would be a lot more convenient to have them in the smaller taskbar calendar.

[retrorich75]

One little programme I found that does the job nice and quick is https://github.com/otacke/timetray, just a number in the taskbar. Yes written in Java but thems the breaks :-)

[crutkas]

asking around, this may need to actually be addressed by the actual OS team.

[crutkas]

@Kardzhilov is just having the week # in the systray enough or the ideal solution of have it in the OS cal? Saying OS Calendar is totally ok

[Kardzhilov]

@Kardzhilov is just having the week # in the systray enough or the ideal solution of have it in the OS cal? Saying OS Calendar is totally ok

Ideally having it in OS calendar would be best since then you could also plan ahead to check when things are happening or whatnot. Just having the week # in the systray would still be better then the current alternatives though.

[kvervo]

Hi!

My 5 cents on this requests. In my case, I would really like to have the following scenarios:

• Ability to choose what to display on system tray:
  
  
  
  • Date: Weekday name, Year, Week Number
  
  
  • Time: Seconds
  
  
• Ability to define first week of year: 1 jan, first full week, frist 4-day week

Having the calendar that open from the systray to show week numbers is a nice addition. But not a MUST requirement.

Example of applications already doing something similar:

• https://sindresorhus.com/dato (MacOS) which I currently use for my personal macbook
• https://github.com/White-Tiger/T-Clock (Windows) which I tried to use for my work laptop, but was not happy with the experience

[Jay-o-Way]

asking around, this may need to actually be addressed by the actual OS team.

@crutkas Any word yet?

[Gakk]

I would say just having the week # in the system tray is not enough. As others have pointed out, at least in Norway we use the week number a lot, and I have missed this feature for years.

I usually know the current week number, so system tray would not help. And it is a pain to open the tray calendar and count week numbers forward a couple of months. In my point of view it has to be in the OS calendar.

A screenshot of how Outlook has implemented this:

[CaptInsano]

Would love to see this implemented just as @Gakk has suggested.
Found the ressurected PowerToy project seaching for an answer to this issue

Every week I have to google the current week number when doing payroll!!

[Chris2011]

I'm searching for this option so long. At the end I used T-Clock to add this feature, but it adds a not so nie looking calender. Are there any public APIs available for the Calendar that I can try to add this by my own?.