JP6671644B2 - Schedule management device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a schedule management device and a program for causing a computer to function as such a schedule management device.

  A person may have a large number of schedules, and may use a schedule management device to manage a large number of schedules. Various schedule management devices have been proposed from the viewpoints of ease of inputting schedules and viewability of schedule lists (easiness of understanding).

  For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a schedule management device capable of appropriately operating a schedule by preventing a date displayed at the time of confirming or inputting a schedule from being hidden. .

  Patent Document 2 discloses a schedule management apparatus that enables a third party other than a user to check a “todo” list of schedule management application software, thereby unifying the members' intentions in performing tasks. It has been disclosed.

  Patent Literature 3 discloses a continuous schedule management that manages the result of a repetitive scheduling operation, generates an initial state of task assignment at the time of creating a new schedule, and estimates the state of a resource to be scheduled at a schedule start time by simulation. A system is disclosed.

  However, the above-mentioned prior art seeks to facilitate the management of a schedule that the user actively inputs (that is, a time zone in which the action to be performed by the user is predetermined). It does not suggest what action the user should take during the time period (blank time period).

Also, a plurality of schedules scheduled in different time zones may be related to each other.
For example, suppose a case where a presentation is made to another company regarding the business of the company, and the result of the business adoption is asked from the other company at a later date (FIG. 2). In this case, a few days before the presentation, first determine the direction of the presentation by in-house discussions, then prepare the materials for the presentation by the date of the presentation based on the contents of the meeting, and work on the presentation Is common. In such a case, “meeting” and “presentation” are schedules closely related to each other, and the act of “listening to a result” is also a schedule closely related to “meeting” and “presentation”. In addition, the work of “material creation” must be performed as work in which the time zone to be performed is not determined (not “schedule” but so-called “ToDo”).
The above-described related art does not clearly display such mutually related schedules or the relationship between the tasks therebetween.

JP 2013-058026 A JP-A-9-259088 JP-A-5-298321

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the background art described above, and its problem is not only to manage a schedule actively input by a user, but also to perform a user's operation during a time period between schedules input by the user. An object of the present invention is to provide a schedule management device capable of proposing and visualizing an action to be performed and displaying the relation between schedules related to each other in an easy-to-understand manner, and a program for causing a computer to function as the schedule management device.

  The present inventor has conducted intensive studies to solve the above-described problems, and as a result, a plurality of user schedules related to each other are combined and stored as a grouped task. It has been found that by displaying the user schedules together with the individual user schedules before the conversion, the relation between the schedules related to each other can be easily understood. Further, the present inventor displays an unspecified schedule received from the outside in a time zone portion not filled in by the user schedule, so that the user can easily grasp the action to be performed in the time zone between the schedules. The inventors have found that the present invention has been completed and completed the present invention.

That is, the present invention stores a user schedule input by a user together with its time zone or time, and, when the user inputs the relevance of a plurality of user schedules, also stores the relevance. And a task storage unit that combines the plurality of user schedules in which the user schedule storage unit stores the relevance and stores the grouped tasks, and a user schedule stored by the user schedule storage unit along the time axis. A schedule management device having a time axis display unit for displaying, and a task display unit for listing and displaying the tasks stored in the task storage unit for each task,
The task display means displays each task together with individual user schedules before being grouped, and the schedule management device stores an unspecified schedule received from outside together with its time zone or time. The time-axis display means displays the unspecified schedule received by the unspecified schedule storage means in a time zone portion not filled in by the user schedule. This provides a schedule management device that performs

  Further, the present invention provides a program that causes a computer to function as the above-mentioned schedule management device.

  Further, the present invention is a program for transmitting the unspecified schedule to the schedule management device, wherein the unspecified schedule is transmitted in a two-dimensional code format and / or an e-mail format. A program characterized by the following is provided.

  The schedule management device of the present invention proposes and visualizes an action to be performed by a user during a time period between schedules input by the user, and also displays the relation between mutually related schedules in an easy-to-understand manner. Therefore, the user using the schedule management device of the present invention can easily understand the action to be performed in a time slot (blank time slot) between the schedules input by the user (time slot in which the action to be performed is determined in advance). , It is easy to spend meaningful and fulfilling time during this time.

It is a block diagram of a schedule management device of the present invention. It is a key map showing an example (work) of a schedule group. (A) In the case of the schedule management device of the present invention (b) In the case of the conventional schedule management device It is a conceptual diagram which shows the example (travel) of a schedule group. (A) In the case of the schedule management device of the present invention (b) In the case of the conventional schedule management device It is an example of the screen displayed by the task display means. It is an example of the screen displayed by the time axis display means.

  Hereinafter, the present invention will be described, but the present invention is not limited to the following embodiments, and can be arbitrarily modified and implemented.

FIG. 1 shows an example of a block diagram of a schedule management device of the present invention.
The schedule management device 10 of the present invention has at least a user schedule storage unit 11, a task storage unit 12, an unspecified schedule storage unit 13, a task display unit 15, and a time axis display unit 16.
The schedule management device 10 of the present invention may include the user schedule information distribution unit 14 and the like.

The user U inputs his / her own schedule (user schedule) into the user schedule storage unit 11 of the schedule management device 10. The user schedule storage means 11 stores the user schedule input by the user U together with the time zone or time.
“Schedule” means that a time zone to be performed is scheduled in advance. In the example of FIG. 2 described above, “meeting”, “presentation”, and “listening to the result” are “schedules”. “Material creation” is not a “schedule” (a so-called “ToDo”) because a time zone to be performed is not determined.

In addition, when there is a relationship between the input user schedules, the user U also inputs the relationship between the user schedules to the user schedule storage unit 11. When the user U inputs the relevance between a plurality of user schedules, the user schedule storage unit 11 also stores the relevancy.
For example, in the case of FIG. 2, the user U inputs three schedules of “meeting”, “presentation”, and “listen to the result” as being related to each other, and the user schedule storage unit 11 stores the relevance of the three schedules. Is stored.

The task storage unit 12 combines a plurality of user schedules for which the user schedule storage unit 11 has stored the relevance, and stores them as grouped tasks.
For example, in the case of the example (work) shown in FIG. 2, the three schedules “meeting”, “presentation”, and “listening to the result” are combined and grouped, and stored as one task “work A”.

  The task storage unit 12 stores a schedule (single schedule) that is not related to another schedule as it is as a task.

The task display unit 15 lists and displays the tasks stored in the task storage unit 12 for each task.
FIG. 4 shows an example of a screen displayed by the task display means 15. In FIG. 4, an item represented by one tab is one task.

In the present invention, the task display means 15 displays each task together with an individual user schedule before being grouped.
For example, in the fifth tab from the top in FIG. 4, individual schedules of “orient” (orientation) and “presentation” (presentation) are displayed together with a task of “department store appearance proposal”. Also, between the “Orien” and the “Presentation”, a work (ToDo) in which the time period to be performed is not determined, that is, “preparation period” (preparation of materials for presentation (presentation)) is displayed.
By viewing the screen displayed (output) by the task display unit 15, the user U can grasp the overall image of the action to be performed by the user U.

In the conventional schedule management device, it is possible to list what must be performed as a “ToDo” list, but a plurality of related schedules are not grouped and displayed as tasks.
In the present invention, by displaying each task together with an individual user schedule before being grouped, it becomes easy to grasp an action to be performed in a time zone between schedules input by the user.

  For example, in the case of the behavior pattern of “meeting” → “material creation” → “presentation” → “hearing the result” shown in FIG. 2, the schedule (s) “meeting” / “material creation” / “presentation” The conventional schedule management device (FIG. 2 (b)) manages “listen to the results” as separate schedules, and manages “material creation” as work (w) as so-called “ToDo”. That is, it is difficult for a user to manage three schedules and one “ToDo” and to grasp the relationship between schedules (s) and tasks (w). In addition, a state of “standby” (the user does nothing) exists between “presentation” and “listen to results”, and such a blank time zone (v) is any time zone. It is difficult for the user to understand.

  The schedule management device (FIG. 2A) of the present invention groups three schedules (s) of “meeting”, “presentation”, and “listen to results” and manages them as one task (t). The task display means displays each of the grouped tasks (t) together with the three schedules (s) before the grouping, so that the schedules (s), the schedules (s) and the operations (w) are mutually associated. It is easy for the user to grasp the relationship of (3), and it is easy for the user to grasp the blank time zone (v) during the schedule (s).

  In the case of the travel pattern shown in FIG. 3, the conventional schedule management device (FIG. 3 (b)) manages everything from a set to dissolution with one schedule (s) called “travel”. A method to manage with three schedules (s): set, sightseeing, and dissolution, and five schedules (s): set, move, sightseeing, transfer, and dissolution There is a way to do that. However, for example, when using a means of transportation such as a train or a bus, the traveler can use a smartphone or the like to perform some other work related to work or hobbies, for example, Can be regarded as a blank time zone (v) instead of the schedule (s), and if an action to be taken during this time is proposed, the traveler can spend time during traveling meaningfully.

  The schedule management device (FIG. 3 (a)) of the present invention displays a series of “travel” actions as a grouped task (t), and “movement” regarded as a blank time zone (v). In the time zone, the action to be performed by the user is proposed, so that the user can spend time meaningfully.

  The screen displayed by the task display means 15 can display the current time, as shown in FIG. To make it easier for the user to grasp the situation, for example, the already completed (past) schedule, the imminent schedule (for example, the schedule within 24 hours from the current time), and the non-imminent schedule are displayed by different display methods. Preferably, they are displayed (eg, a completed schedule is displayed in gray, an imminent schedule is displayed in red, and an imminent schedule is displayed in black).

The unspecified schedule storage unit 13 stores the unspecified schedule received from the external V together with its time zone or time.
The “unspecified schedule” is not a schedule that the user U inputs himself (a schedule determined by the action of the user U), but a schedule (a blank time zone, which is given by a user U outside the user U). Are candidates for actions to be performed).
The “external V” is a person other than the user U who uses the schedule management device 10 of the present invention. As will be described later, the schedule management device 10 of the present invention may include a user schedule information distribution unit 14. In such a case, the user schedule distributed by one user U1 is not transmitted to another user U2. It can be received as a specific schedule (that is, when the user U2 is regarded as the user U of the schedule management device 10 of the present invention, the user U1 corresponds to the external V).

  Examples of the method of receiving the unspecified schedule include a method of automatically receiving information on the Internet, a method of receiving information in a two-dimensional code format, and a method of receiving information in an e-mail format.

The unspecified schedule is a candidate for an action to be performed by the user U, which is received from the external V. For example, when information on the Internet is automatically received, the number of unspecified schedules (candidates for an action) is In some cases, the amount becomes enormous, making it difficult for the user to select the action.
For this reason, the schedule management device 10 of the present invention has means for inputting user preferences and the like in advance, and the unspecified schedule storage means 13 selectively receives the unspecified schedule according to the user preferences and the like. Is preferred.

  Further, the schedule management device 10 of the present invention may be provided with a means for the user to set the start date of the received unspecified schedule by himself.

  The unspecified schedule storage means 13 receives and stores information on the cancellation or change of the unspecified schedule already received from the external V, when the unspecified schedule received from the external V is interrupted or changed. May be.

  The time axis display means 16 displays the user schedule stored by the user schedule storage means 11 along the time axis. Further, the time axis display means 16 displays the unspecified schedule received by the unspecified schedule storage means 13 in a time zone portion not filled in by the user schedule.

FIG. 5 shows an example of a screen displayed by the time axis display means 16. In the example shown in FIG. 5, 14:00 to 15:30, 16:00 to 18:00, and 20:00 to 21:30 are filled with the user schedule (a band-shaped figure on the right of the time axis). , Which can be distinguished from unfilled time zones).
The time zones other than the above are time zone portions not filled in by the user schedule, and the unspecified schedule received by the unspecified schedule storage unit 13 is displayed.
The user U sees the screen displayed (output) by the time axis display means 16 to grasp his / her own predetermined schedule and to know the candidate of the action to be performed in a blank time zone in which the action to be performed is not determined. It is possible to effectively use a time zone not filled in by the user schedule.

  The display method of the unspecified schedule in the time axis display means 16 is, for example, that the display order is determined according to the user's preference (for example, the field of interest of the user is preferentially displayed). preferable.

In addition, some types of unspecified schedules can be performed only in a specific place (for example, an unspecified schedule of “watching a movie being played” cannot be performed without a nearby movie theater). ).
It is preferable that the schedule management device 10 of the present invention incorporates map information and has means for detecting the current position of the user.
With this configuration, the time axis display unit 16 can display only an unspecified schedule that can be performed by the user according to the current position of the user. In addition, by receiving the operation information of public transportation such as trains and buses, it is possible to determine the optimal means of transportation and travel time for performing the unspecified schedule as a candidate, and to output it to the time axis display means 16. Can be.

  Since some types of unspecified schedules should be repeated in units of time, day, week, month, and year, the time axis display means 16 may repeatedly display such schedules.

The user schedule information distribution unit 14 distributes the user schedule stored in the user schedule storage unit 11 as a distribution schedule.
A distribution schedule delivered from a specific user can be received by another user as an unspecified schedule.

The distribution method of the distribution schedule by the user schedule information distribution unit 14 includes a method of distributing in a two-dimensional code format, a method of distributing in an e-mail format, and the like.
The method of distributing in a two-dimensional code format is suitable for distributing to an unspecified number of others (another user). The delivery method in the form of an e-mail is suitable for delivery to a specific other user (for example, an employee of the same company as the delivering user).

When distributing the distribution schedule, authentication using a password or the like may be performed so that only a specific other user can use the distribution schedule as an unspecified schedule.
Further, a means may be provided in which a user who attaches an alert to a distribution schedule or receives a distribution schedule as an unspecified schedule answers the user who distributed the distribution schedule.

  The information stored by the user schedule storage unit 11, task storage unit 12, unspecified schedule storage unit 13 and the like of the schedule management device 10 of the present invention is preferably managed in a cloud environment together with the user's personal information. It is particularly preferred that the stored information is automatically sent to the cloud and backed up.

The present invention also relates to a program that causes a computer to function as the schedule management device 10 described above.
Further, the present invention is a program for transmitting an unspecified schedule to the schedule management device 10 described above, and transmits the unspecified schedule in a two-dimensional code format and / or an e-mail format. It also relates to the featured programs.

  The schedule management device of the present invention can be applied to smartphones, tablets, desktop personal computers, notebook portable personal computers, and the like.

Reference Signs List 10 schedule management device 11 user schedule storage means 12 task storage means 13 unspecified schedule storage means 14 user schedule information distribution means 15 task display means 16 time axis display means U user V external s schedule t task v blank time zone w work ( Todo)

Claims (4)

User schedule storage means for storing a user schedule input by the user together with the time zone or time, and when the user inputs the relevance of a plurality of user schedules, also stores the relevance; Task storage means for storing a plurality of user schedules storing associations as a grouped task by combining the plurality of user schedules, and storing a single schedule not related to other schedules as a task; A time axis display means for displaying the user schedule stored by the means along the time axis; and the tasks stored by the task storage means are listed and displayed for each task using the time zone or time of the corresponding user schedule. A schedule management device having task display means,
The task display means displays a plurality of user schedules before being grouped as tasks in a display area of each of the listed tasks , in a state where the context can be grasped, and displayed .
According to the time zone or time of the user schedule, in the display area, the already completed user schedule is displayed so as to be distinguishable from other user schedules ,
The schedule management device includes an unspecified schedule storage unit that stores the unspecified schedule received from the outside together with the time zone or time, and the time axis display unit includes a time zone portion not filled in by the user schedule. A schedule management device for displaying the unspecified schedule received by the unspecified schedule storage means. The task display means can identify the completed user schedule, the imminent user schedule, and the imminent user schedule in each task according to the current time and the time zone or time of the user schedule. The schedule management device according to claim 1, wherein the schedule management device displays the schedule. 3. The schedule management device according to claim 1 , wherein the time axis display means displays the user schedule and the unspecified schedule in an identifiable manner .   A program for causing a computer to function as the schedule management device according to any one of claims 1 to 3.