1. A method for temporarily viewing calendar information from within a display of message data in a messaging application on an electronic device, the method comprising: displaying, in a messaging application window generated by the messaging application, the message data including a list of messages in a chronological order and a header at a first end of the list of messages indicating a date associated with the first end of the list of messages; detecting a swipe gesture requesting combined temporary display of the message data and the calendar information, the swipe gesture starting on the header and swiping through at least a portion of the displayed list of messages; selecting the calendar information based on a chronological correlation between the calendar information and the date associated with the first end of the list of messages being displayed; appending, by the messaging application, the calendar information to the first end of the message data by maintaining at least some of the messages in the list of messages in the messaging application window and temporarily displaying the calendar information in a portion of the messaging application window, separated from the at least some of the messages by the header, wherein the combined display of the calendar information and the list of messages is scrollable as a single list; and once the calendar information is scrolled off the display, removing the temporarily appended calendar information from the single list and scrolling through the message data without displaying the calendar information until a subsequent detection of the swipe gesture.