What the sky can do — commitments

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This page lists what you can ask ask the sky — the calendar's built-in AI assistant — to do with your commitments, in plain words, and what it says back. You ask all of it on the ask sheet; Ask the sky — the assistant says where that is.

A commitment is one thing you have to do. It passes once (a meteor, ☄), keeps coming round (an asteroid, ↻), or returns every year (a fixed star, ✦). See What a commitment is.

Place one

Give it a name and a day, and say whether it happens once, repeats, or returns yearly. You can add:

how often it repeats;
a time, or no time at all;
notes;
which almanac it lands in — a named, coloured layer of commitments, like one calendar;
the names of the people joining it.

Those names become its "joined by" list and stay in Zenith. They are never sent out as calendar guests.

Once placed, the sky names the day and the almanac: "placed “‹name›” on ‹date› in “‹almanac›”".

It refuses rather than guesses. It refuses a commitment with no name, and an almanac name that nothing answers to. It also refuses an almanac that is locked, archived, or fed by something that will not take a write — each in that almanac's own words.

A monthly repeat on a day the short months lack, or a yearly one on 29 february, is held until you say which you want: skip that month, move to its last day, or roll over into the next.

Ask what is there

everything between two days;
the next few coming up;
a search by words in a name, the notes, the place, or anyone joining;
everything in one named almanac;
free windows of at least so many minutes on a day, between 8:00 and 22:00;
a one-line summary of a day, a week or a month.

Lists come back with each commitment's day, name, form (meteor, asteroid or fixed star), time where it has one, and who joins it.

Change one

The sky can change a commitment's:

name, notes, place, colour, or link;
time, or set it to no time at all;
how long it runs;
which almanac it belongs to;
who joins it, and who no longer does;
the time zone its clock is kept in, at either end.

It can also take its map pin off while keeping the place's words, and move it to another day. A colour or a time zone it can't read is refused outright, not quietly dropped.

For anything that repeats, it asks first which you meant — only the one day, or the whole pattern. One day is lifted out of the pattern and changed on its own. The whole pattern is changed as one.

Two limits apply. A pattern whose days come from a rule can only be moved one day at a time. A repeat that lives in a phone calendar is sent back to that day's own page instead.

Change how it repeats

Once; weekly, and on which days; every other week; monthly; yearly. Or the extensive ones: every so many days, weeks, months or years; a chosen weekday of the month; around easter; and with a day it stops. See Times & repeats.

Its own settings

the evening bell — a quiet notice the evening before;
its journal reminder — a notice when it ends, offering it to Zenith Journal;
whether it sounds as its almanac does or arrives silent;
its mark — one letter, number, emoji or symbol, or back to its almanac's;
its look — the page style its own page wears;
a background picture, from those already attached to it;
its two overrides against its almanac: for what goes out, and for detail or plain;
the days taken off a repeat, which it lists and puts back one at a time.

A commitment in a locked almanac is refused before anything is written.

"what you fill in"

This is the small form a commitment can carry — see What you fill in, material & place. The sky can read it out, add a line, move one up or down, take one out, and fill one in. The six kinds of line are a tick box, a short entry, a slider, a choice, a date and a note.

A section the sky built says so on the commitment's page: "✦ made by the sky — ai-generated · verify what matters", with ⚑ (a flag) that reports it in one tap. Tidying it up by hand does not take that mark off.

Show it, and take it elsewhere

The sky can:

put one commitment on your screen, as its full page or as the brief at the bottom — the day's list;
open its editor, its material (its files), its "what to fill in", its look, its card, its place on the map, or the person it names;
share it through the phone's own share sheet;
hold it in the shuttle — the suite's shared tray between Zenith apps;
hand it to Zenith Tasks or Zenith Journal;
place a commitment from another app's item, keeping the two linked.

Removing one is behind a switch

"allow destructive actions" sits on settings › "ask the sky", set in under "zenith ai in this app". It starts off.

While it is off, the sky refuses and says where the switch is: "destructive actions are off — switch on “allow destructive actions” in settings › ask the sky, then ask again". Only you can switch it on. The sky can switch it off, never on.

With it on, it still asks every time. The question reads "the sky asks first", then "‹name› wants to run “‹what it is about to do›” — allow it?". You answer "allow" or "not this". Backing out, or tapping outside, counts as "not this".

Nothing is gone for good

A commitment the sky removes goes to the pyre first — where thrown-away things wait thirty days and can be pulled back. The sky says "“‹name›” is in the pyre · ‹N› days to pull it back". If the pyre could not be written, nothing is removed at all. See The shelves — binder, archive & pyre.

For one that repeats, it asks which you meant first. Removing one day takes that day off the pattern and leaves the rest standing: "“‹name›” will not happen on ‹date›". Nothing goes to the pyre, and that day can be put back later.

What the sky can do — commitments

#Place one

#Ask what is there

#Change one

#Change how it repeats

#Its own settings

#"what you fill in"

#Show it, and take it elsewhere

#Removing one is behind a switch

#Nothing is gone for good

#See also.