Two Questions: Tracking Impromptu Activities & Seeing the week/month ahead

First, I want to say THANK YOU for all of the help I have received with using the CM organizer.  I think I am beginning to get the hang of things.  🙂 I am still trying to figure out how we can adapt the CM organizer to fit in with our day of life.  And I had two additional questions:

1) Tracking Improptu Field Trips, Books, and Activities:   Several times a week we will often take an improptu field trip.  For example, a friend might call us and invite us to the zoo in the afternoon.  What is going to be the easiest and fastest way to track these types of activities?  

We also follow a lot of “rabbit trails” and I would like to be able to track this work.  For example, after the zoo, my little boy was very interested in snowy owls.  SO on our way home from the zoo, we swung by the library and read some non-fictiion books about snowy owls aloud as a family.  I would like to show a record of this in our report for the day.  I am thinking that in order to track these books, I would have to go back to the scheduler, schedule in these books assigned to this day, and then mark them as finished.  Is this the best/fastest/easiest way of tracking this type of learning?

2)  Looking at the week or month ahead:

I see that you can look at the current day’s and the next day’s schedule.  However, it would be nice to be able to see what the week ahead is going to look like at a glance.  (Perhaps on the weekend I would like to be able to quickly look at our workload and see if I need to gather any supplies or prep anything for our schedule.)  Or perhaps I want to see how long a certain book is going to take us to finish at our current rate.  For example, I want to be finished with a certain book before Valentine’s day.  It would be nice to see if I have it scheduled often enough for this to happen without having to work it out on paper.    Is there any way to do this?