The morning, the evening bell & tomorrow

Three things look ahead for you: a morning notice, a bell the evening before, and a sheet for planning tomorrow.

#Where they are

• The two notices have their times, and their switches, on settings › "the morning". Their switches are also on settings › "notifications". Hold the gear ⚙ in the sky's bottom-right corner to open the settings book.
• The bell for one commitment is set by holding that commitment's row in the day brief — the day's list.
• "tomorrow" is the "◐" button, a half-lit circle, in the sky's top-right corner.

#The morning

One notice a day at 8:00 unless you move it. The phone may deliver it within a fifteen-minute window. If its time has already passed today, the first one comes tomorrow.

• Title: "the morning", unless you rename it.
• Body: to start, up to three of today's commitments — the things you have to do — in time order. Each is the title in lowercase, then its time where it has one, joined by " · ". If there are more, it adds " · +N more". All-day entries come after timed ones. You can choose instead that it says what's left of today, or tomorrow's commitments.
• A quiet day reads "a quiet day — nothing placed today".
• A tap opens what it said, over whatever is showing. If it rings while the calendar is open in front of you, that opens at once.

The morning is one of four announcements — notices at set times of day that say what is coming. The afternoon, the evening and the night are the others, and you can add your own. Their times, names and what each says are on Announcements.

It is a daily notice you did not ask for, so it starts off. Turn it on at settings › "the morning", or at settings › "notifications" › "the morning — today's commitments, once at dawn". Switching it on sets it right away. Switching it off cancels it.

#The evening before

A quiet word on the day before a commitment, at the day-before notice's time — 18:00 unless you move it on settings › "the morning". It is set at the same time as the reminder for the moment itself, and only while that time is still ahead.

• It reads "tomorrow · ‹title›".
• Beneath: "on your calendar at ‹time› · zenith calendar", with the time as the app says it — "7p", or "19:00" with the 24-hour clock on. An entry with no time leaves the time out.
• A tap opens the commitment's page on the day it is about.

Like every reminder, it checks the commitment is still there, on that day, at that time, before it posts.

#Who decides

Three voices decide whether one commitment gets an evening bell, in this order:

1. The commitment itself. It wins outright, because a choice you made by hand beats a standing rule.
2. Its almanac, if it has an opinion. An almanac is a named, coloured layer of commitments, like one calendar. "always" suits an almanac whose commitments all need a night's warning. "never" suits one you do not want eighteen of. The almanac's page says: "“never” quiets this almanac without turning the notice off everywhere else."
3. The app's standing rule. It covers timed commitments only. That is what stops every holiday and meteor shower buzzing the phone the night before.

#Two switches, for two different things

Keeping them apart means switching the standing rule off never silences a bell you set by hand.

Both come at the day-before notice's time.

#Set the bell on one commitment

1. On the sky, open a day's brief. See The day brief.
2. Hold the commitment's row.
3. Choose "🔔 evening-before bell". The 🔔 is a bell.

Once set, the row reads "🔔 evening-before bell · on". The app answers "“x” will ring the evening before". Take it off and it answers "no evening bell for “x”".

On a locked almanac, the row is drawn shut and says "“‹almanac›” is locked — unlock it first". If the change cannot be saved, the bell is taken back and the lock is named again. See The lock.

#Tomorrow

Tap the "◐" button in the sky's top-right corner to open the tomorrow sheet, described "plan tomorrow". It sits to the left of the AI star and the shuttle.

On a phone it rises from the bottom. On a fold or tablet with the docket up — the side panel beside the sky on a wide screen (Gold) — it fills the docket as a page of its own. See The docket, the second sky & the desk clock.

#What it shows

• The head reads "tomorrow", with tomorrow's weekday and date under it, in whichever calendar system the app is set to.
• Tomorrow's commitments: a small dot in the commitment's own colour, the title in lowercase, and its time at the right. An all-day commitment shows no time. A tap opens that commitment's page.
• An empty day reads "a quiet day so far — nothing placed yet".

The list scrolls inside its own part of the sheet, so the two buttons below always stay in view:

• "✛ place something" — the ✛ is a cross, the app's mark for adding. It opens the new-commitment form on tomorrow, with the calendar moved to that day. See Add a commitment.
• "✦ plan it with the sky" — the ✦ is a four-pointed star, the mark of the app's assistant. It shows only while the app's AI is on. It opens ask the sky with the request already made: plan tomorrow together, step by step. The assistant is told what is already on the calendar. It looks at your open tasks where a service offers them, proposes a gentle plan, asks what to confirm, and then places what you agree on. See Speaking, one commitment & tomorrow.

Anything you open from this sheet takes you there, and the sheet comes back when you leave.

#Opening tomorrow from outside the app

• Hold the app's icon on the home screen and choose "tomorrow plan".
• Tap the "◐ tomorrow" button on the days-ahead widget. See Widgets, shortcuts, the tile & links.
• Ask the sky out loud. It answers "tomorrow is open".

#See also.

Announcements · Reminders · The day brief · Speaking, one commitment & tomorrow · Widgets, shortcuts, the tile & links