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Calendar
Ctrl+2. The date navigator and your calendars down the left, the arrangement you chose filling the rest.
Calendars are CalDAV or local. A subscribed .ics is read-only and refreshes on its own;
everything else is yours to write. Several calendars can be shown at once, each in its own
colour, overlaid in the same grid.
| Day | One day, hour by hour. |
| Work Week | The days you marked as working days, which Options names. |
| Week | Seven days. |
| Month | A month of day cells; a day with more than fits ends in a more mark. |
| Schedule View | One day laid sideways, a row per calendar — for reading several against each other. |
A second time-zone column can stand beside the ruler, which is what you want when half your meetings are somebody else's morning.
Making an appointment. Double-click empty time for half an hour. Sweep across empty time
— press and drag down a day, or sideways in Schedule View — and you get an appointment exactly
that long. From the keyboard the same thing is Shift with the arrow keys: the caret grows into
a stretch, and Enter opens an appointment over it. Escape lets go of the stretch and leaves
the caret where it was.
Inside the appointment window the Start and End boxes offer every half hour and take a typed
time: 9:15, 0915, 9.15, 9:15 pm, 21:45 all read. A time that does not read puts back
the one that was there.
Moving one. Drag a chip to move it, drag its edge to lengthen it. In Schedule View, dragging
a chip onto another row moves it to that calendar. Escape mid-drag abandons it and nothing is
written.
The keyboard. Every grid answers the arrow keys: by slot and by day in Day and Week, by day
and by week in Month, along the day and between calendars in Schedule View. Home and End are
the day's ends, Page Up and Page Down move the whole run, and running off either end pages
the view. Tab walks the appointments in the focused day — including the ones a month cell could
not draw, which is the only way to reach them. Enter opens what the caret is on.
Meetings. Invitations are iMIP: send one and the recipient's client can answer it; receive one and Accept, Tentative and Decline are on the message. The Scheduling Assistant tab in the appointment window shows the attendees' free/busy against each other.
Printing. Ctrl+P prints what the arrangement is showing. File › Print offers four styles —
Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Calendar Details — and each falls back to its own natural run when
what is showing is too long for it. A long Weekly run prints several week tables rather than
dropping the rest.
An appointment's reminder fires whether or not the Calendar module is open, and whether or not the window is showing — the queue runs behind the application. Options › Calendar sets the default; each appointment can say otherwise.
Beside the date, the toolbar shows the weather for one of your places, as the reference draws it: the next three days, each a picture beside the day and its high and low. The place is home until you pick another from the list under its name, which also adds a location or opens the Weather module; pressing a day opens that place there. The strip appears once you have a weather place, and Options › Calendar › Show a Weather bar on the calendar turns it off.
- Adding a calendar: File › Account Settings › Internet Calendars for a subscription, or the Add Account wizard's second lane for a CalDAV account.
- Working hours, week start, time scale: File › Options › Calendar. The time scale is also on the View tab and changes how fine the grid — and a sweep — can be.
- The Daily Task List under a day or week grid: View › Layout.