Generic Calendars

Specific Day of the Specific Year Seed Branch

MindManager provides an unparalleled range of ‘information cartography’ functionality that enables contextual knowledge to be embedded and attached to map branches in multiple ways…

Image: Specific Date Icon 
A bespoke icon that uniquely identifies the specific day of the year using a double calendar image. The left hand calendar contains the specific year above the name of the month (abbreviated to the first 3 letters), whilst the right hand one contains the day of the week (abbreviated to the first 3 letters) above the numerical day of the month (so from 1 to 31).

Note(s)
i) The icon was originally designed and created by us as a 96 x 48 pixel PNG file, optimised to minimize the file size (typically 2-3 KB).

Text: Specific Date
Richly formatted text string of the specific date (year, month & day of the month) and day of the week in the format eg. ‘1 Jan 2020 Wed’. The day of the week is in normal (as opposed to bold) font to improve ‘readbility’.

Branch Shading Colour: ‘Type’ of Day 
Day topics are shaded according to the usual differentiation between days of the week – working (‘normal’) days and weekends – as well as public holidays.

Note(s)
i) Topic shading is controlled by a Smart Rule (a unique MindManager feature) triggered by the ‘TIME – Days of the week’ index marker tag – ‘Weekend Days’ are set to be topics tagged as ‘Sat’ and ‘Sun’ by default. MindManager users can easily change this rule to set weekends as any days of the week they want.

Index Marker Tags & Groups: Various
Arranged in groups and attached to branches as required, index marker tags…

• provide additional contextual knowledge about the seed branch, visiable to all users.
• enable dynamic filtering of the map content to only show / hide branches that have been tagged with the selected marker

Index maker tags attached to this knowledge seed branch are as follows…

TIME – Dates – YYYY (D Mon YYYY DoW) – Every date of the year in the same format as the day branch text – 365 tags from eg. ‘1 Jan 2019 Tue’ to ’31 Dec 2019 Tue’.

TIME – Dates YYYY (DD/MM/YYYY) – Every date of the specific month, for each of the 12 months of the Gregorian Calendar year in the most commonly used numeric format – 365 tags from eg. ’01/01/2019′ to ’31/12/2019′.

TIME – Dates YYYY (MM/DD/YYYY) – Every date of the specific month, for each of the 12 months of the Gregorian Calendar year in ‘Amercan’ style numeric format (ie. months first) – 365 tags from eg. ’01/01/2019′ to ’12/31/2019′.

TIME – Dates YYYY (YYYY/MM/DD) – Every date of the specific month, for each of the 12 months of the Gregorian Calendar year in ‘year first’ numeric format – 365 tags from eg. ’01/01/2019′ to ’31/12/2019′.
Note(s)
i) This format is the only one in which the chronological order of the tags in the group will ‘survive’ a numeric sorting operation (ie. arrange ‘lowest to highest’ or ‘highest to lowest’).

TIME – Dates (D Mon) – Every generic date of the month, for each of the 12 months of the generic Gregorian Calendar year as abbreviated text and number – 365 tags from ‘Jan 1’ to ‘Dec 31’.

TIME – Days – Of the Year (DNNN) – The seqential number of the day in the generic calendar year – 365 tags from eg. ‘D001’ to ‘D365’ (366 if it’s a leap year).

TIME – Days – YYYY (DNNN-YYYY) – The seqential number of the day in the specific calendar year – 365 tags from eg. ‘D001-2019’ to ‘D365-2019’ (366 if it’s a leap year).

TIME – Days – Of the Week (Day) – The days of the week abbreviated to the first 3 letters – 7 tags from ‘Mon’ to ‘Sun’.
Note(s)
i) The tags in this group are used to control the shading of ‘working’ and ‘weekend’ day branches by a Smart Rule in MindManager (a unique MindManager feature). ‘Weekend Days’ are set to be topics tagged as ‘Sat’ and ‘Sun’ by default but these can be changed within MindManager.

TAGS NOT CURRENTLY ATTACHED TO THIS SEED BRANCH BUT AVAILABLE FOR USE AS REQUIRED

For this map we have created more groups of tags than are assigned to the branches…

• ‘Buisness Year’ Tags – The ‘buisness year’ of any organisation – be it commercial, charity, community group etc. – usually straddles calendar years eg. 2019/20, and, though the personal tax year usually runs from April to March, the ‘business year’ can start from any month. Thus we have also created ‘business year’ marker tag groups that contain the calendar year.
• Additional Day Criteria – There are lots of different ways that days in a calendar can be classified. We have also included tag groups for some of them.

These will be specific to the user as to whether they want to include them, and which ones go where. Thus they have not been assigned to seed branches but they are available in the index marker pane of the map for MindManager users to use in this (or any other) map. They will not be visible in the HTML version.

TIME – Days – YYYY/YY (DNNN-YYYY/YY) – The seqential number of the days of the 2 business years straddling the particular calendar year of the map – 2 groups of 365 tags from eg. ‘D001-2018/19’ to ‘D356-2018/19’ (366 if it’s a leap year).

TIME – Days – Type – The type of day with respect to work & lifestyle. 3 tags in all…

• Working
• Holiday
• Weekend

Note(s)
i) Day branches are not tagged with ‘type’ as they are very subjective to the user and the society in which they live and work.

General Note(s)
i) The names of the marker tag groups are prefixed acccording to the ‘type’ of marker tags they contain…

• EVENTS – prefix indicates tags to do with an event that can be added to a calendar map – the ‘type’ of event, how the date of it fixed etc.
• GEO – prefix indicates geographic tags, usually areas of some kind, often in a hierarchy eg. UN Geoscheme regions, sub-regions, countries, states, counties, communities etc. The names of GEO tags incorporate the official ID codes as well as names, and will always be present in some form in ‘atlas’ knowledge maps. GEO tags allow ‘spatial intelligence’ to be built into a map, even if it isn’t structured in a geographic way. When a map is ‘geo filtered’ using one of these tags it is the equivalent of using ‘Lookup Tables’ in ‘GIS’.
• TIME – prefix indicates time based tags. These can be generic (eg. months of the year, days of the week etc.) or specific (eg. a year, a date etc.). TIME tags will always be present in some form in ‘calendar’ knowledge maps.
• RESOURCE – prefix indicates some aspect of a resource, such as the type of resource or who is responsible for creating / maintaining it.

ii) Within MindManager, tags…

• can be used to format map branches using MindManager’s unique Smart Rules’ feature e.g. colouring the weekend days in a calendar map to make them stand out.
• provide a useful means of internal navigation between map topics (clicking on the branch that is shown as being tagged with that marker in the ‘Index Task Pane’ will immediately focus the map on that banch).
• can be generated automatically from branches (the title of the parent branch is the group name and those of all the immediate sub-branches become the individual tags within the group) .
• can be copied and pasted in their groups from one map to another.

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