What the sky can do — commitments

Ask the sky — the calendar's AI assistant — can place, change, find and sum up your commitments — anything on your calendar, an event or a thing to do. Each thing it does matches a button in the app, and it refuses what that button would refuse. None of this needs Gold.

#Rules it follows

• No date means today. Name a day, or it uses today.
• Repeats ask first. When a commitment repeats, the sky asks whether you mean only that one day or the whole pattern. It never decides for you.
• Awkward days ask too. A monthly repeat on the 29th, 30th or 31st, or a yearly one on 29 february, needs your choice: skip that month, move to the last day, or roll over.
• Locks hold. A locked almanac — one of your calendars, a named, coloured layer of commitments — refuses every change until you unlock it.
• People stay in Zenith. Names of people who join are plain names, never your contacts, and are never sent as calendar guests.

#Place a commitment

• Place a commitment — give a name and a day. You can add whether it happens once, repeats or comes back every year; how often (weekly, every other week or monthly); a time; notes; the almanac; and who joins. It lands in your active almanac unless you name another. It never quietly swaps an almanac you named for a different one.
• Make one from another app's item — turn an item from another Zenith app, such as a task, into a one-off commitment that links back to it.

#Change a commitment

• Edit its details — the name, notes, place, time, length, colour, almanac, a link, who joins, or its time zone. It can also take a map pin off and keep the place's words. It checks every refusal before it changes anything.
• Move it — to a new date. Some patterns can only move one day at a time, and for a pattern from the phone's own calendars, you change that day on its own page instead.
• Change how it repeats — once, weekly on chosen days, every other week, monthly or yearly. It can also do every few days, weeks, months or years; a weekday of the month; days around easter; and an end on a date or after a number of times.
• Its settings — its evening bell, its sound, its mark (the small symbol or picture it wears), its look, a background picture from its material, and days taken off a repeat.
• What you fill in — add, move or take out lines like a tick box, a short entry, a slider, a choice or a note, and answer them.

#Burn a commitment

Burning means deleting. The sky can burn one day of a repeat, or a whole commitment. It never burns a whole pattern unless you ask. It can also remove one file from an almanac's material — files attached to an almanac that its commitments share — which takes it away from every commitment that uses it.

These are destructive, so they are refused while "allow destructive actions" is off. With it on, the sky still asks "allow it?" each time. See Safety, consent & destructive actions.

#Show and share

• Open a commitment — its full page, or its short entry in the brief (the day's list along the bottom of the screen), on a given day.
• Share it — anything "↗ take it elsewhere" does: share it, hold it in the Shuttle, send it to Zenith Tasks, or make a card.
• Its files — list a commitment's or almanac's material, open one, or attach a file riding the Shuttle — the suite's shared tray for passing text and files between Zenith apps.

#Find and sum up

• Search — by words in the name, notes, place or who joins, in every almanac or only one.
• What's coming — everything between two dates, or the next seven days if you don't say.
• The next few — the next commitments from a given day.
• Find free time — open windows of an hour or more by default, between 8:00 and 22:00. Timed commitments count as busy; all-day ones don't.
• Sum up a day, a week or a month — one line each, or "a quiet day" when there is nothing.

Lists name the people who join each commitment.

See also. What the sky can do — almanacs & more · Add a commitment · Times & repeats · Ask the sky