[JKT]

I'm also not saying that this should be the only option or the default option, just an option. How my iCal calendar looks and works should be down to me - personally, I don't ever use week or day view for my calendars in iCal - only monthly view, so seeing bars spanning multiple days is quite appropriate for the way I view things. However, my main need for this is because my phone does not support to do's very well and because I also need alarms on items so that I can flag them as coming up on my phone.

In addition, iCal does have the ability to create groups of calendars so toggling their view on and off is very easy to do. If I don't want a cluttered view all the time, I could just put all my OmniFocus calendars in one group and switch it on and off when I need to do so, thus preserving my 'user' calendars.