Times & repeats
In the editor for a commitment — anything on your calendar, an event or a thing to do — the date, "what time", "how long" and "repeats" rows open small pickers. They cover the exact minute, an end time, a span longer than a day, and any repeat the plain chips cannot say.
Time pickers
| Control | What opens | What it sets |
|---|---|---|
| "▾ change" on the date | The full calendar | "that day" picks it, "never mind" leaves it. |
| "exact…" | A clock face, "the exact minute" | "that minute" sets the start. |
| "ends…" | A clock face, "ends at — it starts ‹time›" | "until then" sets the end. An end at or before the start is read as the next day. |
| "⋯" | A box for minutes | Any length from 1 to 1440 minutes. |
| "beyond a day" (timed) | "the day it ends", then a clock face | The chip reads "ends ‹day› · ‹time›". |
| "beyond a day" (all day) | "the last day it runs" | "until then", "just one day" or "never mind". The chip reads "until ‹day›". |
A commitment holds one length. Picking an end sets the length, and picking a length moves the end. If the end is in another time zone, the chip shows the place and the length too.
How it repeats
Choose "repeats" › "extensive…" to open "how it repeats". Use it for any repeat the plain chips cannot say.
Three kinds of rule:
- "every…" — a number from 1 to 99, then "days", "weeks", "months" or "years".
- "a weekday of the month" — "which one" ("1st" to "5th", or "last"), a weekday, then "of every" so many months.
- "around easter" — "how far from easter", 0 to 300 days, "before" or "after".
When it stops. Under "ends", choose "never", "on a date", or "after some times" (1 to 999). A date before the start becomes the start.
Said back. The sheet says the rule in words — for example "the last friday of every 2 months, 6 times". Under "starting" it lists the first three days it lands on. A rule that would never happen says "it would never happen — say a later end", and you cannot keep it.
Other calendar systems. A rule made while another calendar system is chosen counts that system's months and years. It says so, as in "every month · hebrew". A rule keeps the reckoning it was made in.
Buttons. "keep", "none" (takes the rule off, shown only when there is one) and "never mind". "keep" changes only the editor's draft. Nothing is saved until you keep the commitment itself.
Phone calendars. Easter rules, "roll over" and repeats from another calendar system cannot be written into the phone's own calendars. The editor tells you when you save.
Shorter months
A monthly commitment on the 29th, 30th or 31st, or a yearly one on 29 February, asks "in shorter months:". The answers are "skip that month", "the last day" or "roll over". Until you answer, the row reads "say which, and every calendar will agree".
"this one repeats" — this day, or every one
Before you edit or move a repeating commitment, it asks "this one repeats". It appears from ✎ on the commitment's page, or on its row in the brief — the list of a day's commitments along the bottom of the screen.
- "only ‹day›" opens that one day on its own. When you keep it, that day leaves the pattern and stands alone. The rest carry on unchanged.
- "every one of them" opens the whole pattern.
- Backing out changes nothing. The split happens only when you tap "keep".
- There is no "this and following" answer.
burn — delete — from "only ‹day›" takes that one day off, with an "undo" on the notice. Days taken off a repeat are listed under "days off" on its page, each with "put back".
In the docket (Gold) — the side panel beside the calendar on a wide screen — dragging a repeating commitment to another day asks the same question. You move that one day or the whole pattern.
See also. Add a commitment · Time zones · A commitment's page · Calendar systems & names