Widgets, shortcuts, the tile & links

You can reach the calendar without opening it first. None of these live inside the app. The widgets come from the phone's widget picker, the shortcuts from holding the app's icon, and the tile from the phone's quick-settings editor. Links arrive from other apps, from the widgets and from the app's own notifications.

All of it is free. Neither widget is Gold.

#Add a widget

1. Hold an empty spot on your home screen and open the phone's widget picker.
2. Find Zenith Calendar. You see two widgets, each with a short description and a preview of how it looks.
3. Drag the one you want onto the home screen.
4. Hold it and drag its edges to resize it, if your home screen allows that.

#"today & the moon"

The picker describes it as "today's date, the moon's real phase and the next three commitments". It starts three cells wide and two tall, and you can resize it both ways.

• At the top: "✦ zenith calendar" — the four-pointed star ✦ is the app's own mark.
• Then the month and day, a "·", and the moon's real phase tonight.
• Then up to three commitments — the things you have to do — one to a line, as "◦ ‹title› · ‹short day›".
• With nothing coming, it reads "a quiet day".

A tap anywhere on it opens the app.

#"the days ahead"

The picker describes it as "the next seven commitments, with place, speak and tomorrow a tap away". It starts four cells wide and two tall, and you can resize it.

• Across the top: "the days ahead", which opens the app, with today's date on the right.
• Then up to seven commitments. Each row has a day — "today", "tmrw" or the short day name — and the title in lowercase. A commitment with a time adds its time — " · 7p", or " · 19:00" with the 24-hour clock on. Flipping that switch redraws the widget at once.
• With nothing ahead, it reads "a quiet day — nothing ahead".
• Tap a row to open that commitment's page, on that row's own day.

Three buttons always sit along the bottom:

If the widget is too short for every row, rows are cut from the bottom. The three buttons are never lost.

#How the widgets stay current

Each widget updates itself about every thirty minutes. Both also refresh when you leave the app, when speaking places at least one commitment, and when a file becomes an almanac or gives one its material. An ordinary edit does not push a widget straight away. It shows on the next update, or when you leave the app.

#Use the icon shortcuts

Hold the app's icon on your home screen. Four shortcuts appear:

• "new commitment" opens the app with the add form already in front.
• "speak commitments" goes straight to the speech screen, not the calendar.
• "ask the sky" opens the assistant. If the AI is switched off, nothing opens, and you see "turn on ask the sky in settings first".
• "the years" opens today in the years view.

Two more shortcuts appear once the app has finished reading your almanacs — your named, coloured layers of commitments:

• "Place in Calendar" (its long name is "Place in Zenith Calendar") makes a new commitment. It also puts Zenith Calendar among the suggested apps when you share something from another app.
• "tomorrow plan" (long name "plan tomorrow") goes straight into the tomorrow sheet.

#Add the quick-settings tile

1. Pull down the phone's notification shade and open its quick-settings editor.
2. Find the tile labelled "Zenith Calendar" and drag it into your tiles.
3. Tap it from anywhere to place a commitment.

The tile does not bring the calendar to the front. It opens the quick-add panel over whatever app you are in. The panel is see-through and stays out of your recent apps, so putting it away leaves you where you were. It is the same commitment card the app uses everywhere. If the almanacs are still being read, the panel shows a line and waits, so it never offers a form that cannot say where the commitment would go.

#Links into the calendar

Other Zenith apps, the widgets and the calendar's own reminders open places inside the calendar with a link. Here is what each kind does when you tap it:

• A commitment. The sky flies to its day and opens its page. If the commitment is gone, you see "that commitment is no longer on the calendar".
• A repeating commitment. The link carries the day it meant. If the commitment still happens that day, that day opens. If not, the nearest occurrence to that day opens. With no day given, the nearest to today opens.
• An almanac. This opens the binder — the place where your almanacs live.
• An announcement. An announcement's notice — the morning, the afternoon, the evening, the night or one of your own — opens what it said, over whatever is showing. One of your own removed since opens today with its brief — the day's list — pinned, and says "that announcement has been removed". See Announcements.
• Today. An older morning notice, from before announcements opened what they said, opens today with its brief pinned.
• Tomorrow. This opens the tomorrow sheet, as the "tomorrow plan" shortcut does. See The morning, the evening bell & tomorrow.

A link meant for another Zenith app, or for something the calendar does not have, opens nothing.

#Links on a commitment

A commitment's page can carry links to things in other Zenith apps. Each one is a row reading "⛓ ‹app› · ‹type›" — the chain ⛓. A sibling Zenith app can add such a link quietly, with no screen and no jump. Only a properly formed Zenith link is kept, because a kept link becomes a row you can tap. Once kept, it says "linked from ‹app›". See A commitment's page.

#See also.

Add a commitment · Speaking, one commitment & tomorrow · The morning, the evening bell & tomorrow · The Zenith Suite & broker