Calendar

The Calendar is for time-blocking: deciding ahead of time what your hours will hold, rather than reacting to whatever shows up. Select a slot, put something in it, and your week takes shape.

Views

There are five grids, picked from the toolbar. Day, 2 days and 3 days lay your hours out as blocks you can drag, resize and read a time off; Week does the same across all seven days. Month trades that detail for reach: every day at once, each event a coloured line in its cell. It’s the view for spotting the week that has nothing in it yet. On a phone, where a name has nowhere to go in a seventh of the screen, each day becomes a row of coloured dots you tap to open.

A device opens on whichever grid fits its screen, then remembers the one you pick, so your phone can sit on three days while your desk sits on the week.

To go somewhere else, click the date in the toolbar. It opens a small month with the week you’re on marked across it. Pick a day and the grid goes there; page through the months with the arrows to reach one far from today.

What goes on the grid

Three kinds of thing appear on the calendar:

• Entries: time you set aside or spent. An entry can take part of a day or run for whole days, up to 366 of them. It has a markdown description and categories, and can pay a reward, which lands when you create it.
• Time blocks: entries made for a task. A block shows the task it belongs to and never pays on its own; the task pays once, when you complete it. A block can be unlinked from its task, which makes it an ordinary entry.
• Deadlines: a task’s due date, drawn as an outlined marker rather than a filled block, because a deadline is a moment, not time set aside.

Drag an entry or a block to move it, or pull its edge to change its length. That works for whole-day entries too, which is the quickest way to say a trip ran longer than planned. Dragging a deadline moves the task’s due date.

Selecting an empty slot creates something new. What it creates is set in Settings → Calendar → New items on the grid. The default, Time based, turns a slot that’s already in the past into an entry, paid at once, and a slot still ahead into a task with a time block, paid when you complete the task. You can fix it to Always an entry or Always a task instead, and choose the Default project those tasks go to (the Inbox unless you pick another).

The detail panel

Clicking something tells you about it rather than opening a form over it. A small panel appears beside it with the hours, the categories, the description and, for a block, the task it was made for, which you can tick off right there. Editing and deleting are one step away. A deadline gets the same panel, offering what a deadline can do: tick the task off, Schedule time for it, or clear the date.

It’s the only panel the grid ever opens. On a month, a day too full for its cell shows “+N more”, and that opens the whole day’s list in the same panel. Picking a row opens it there, with a way back to the list.

Categories

Entries, tasks and timer sessions share one set of categories: Deep Work, Errands, Family, whatever your week actually holds. Each has its own colour. You manage them from the panel on the right of the calendar, and can add a new one from any category picker. An entry takes the colour of its first category, so a week’s pattern is visible at a glance: where the focus blocks actually are, and where they aren’t.

Related settings

Settings → Calendar can hide the all-day row and its events. Settings → Timer can write each finished timer cycle to the calendar as an unpaid entry.