The docket, the second sky & the desk clock

These are the calendar's big-screen layouts, for an unfolded fold, a tablet, or a big phone on its side. Everything here is (Gold) except "the wider sky", which is free.

You switch each one on at settings › "zenith gold" › "folds & tablets". That page, its rows, and how its Gold answers are marked are on Folds, tablets & wide screens. This page describes what each layout is like to use.

None of it happens on a narrower screen. "Wide" is one shared measure across every Zenith app, so it means the same in all of them.

#The docket

With "wide screens" set to "docket", the sky — the whole calendar, one canvas that becomes each view — keeps one side of the screen, with all its own buttons. The other side is a plain black panel: the docket.

Anything that would open as its own window on a phone opens in the docket instead:

• settings;
• the binder, where your almanacs live;
• a commitment's page;
• the editor;
• a dialog, which becomes a page filling the docket;
• a bottom sheet, which shows its contents from the top down.

Whatever rests in the docket steps aside while one of these is open there. A touch on the docket's empty space never reaches the sky through it.

#The divider

• Resize. Drag the divider's middle to size the two halves. Where you let go is remembered. There is no slider for it.
• Limits. The sky starts with 60% of the width. It can grow to three-quarters. It never shrinks below a third of the screen, or below what its top corner and its longest date on one line need.
• Fill the screen. Tap the divider's grip and the docket fills the screen. Tap again and it goes back beside the sky.
• Book posture. On a fold held like a book, the divider sits on the crease, half and half, and does not move.

#One night, two halves

The dark background, the nebula clouds and the invented stars are one picture under both halves, so there is no seam down the middle. The darkened edges lie over the whole picture.

"my sky" is the exception. Its real stars are tied to the orrery — the year drawn as an orbit round the sun — so with it on, the docket's side shows no stars. See Skies, colours & my sky.

Turning the phone keeps your place, whether the docket is up or not.

#What the docket shows at rest

"the docket at rest" decides what fills the docket when nothing is open in it.

• "the day's details" — the day's brief, the list of the picked day's commitments, docked beside the sky. See The day brief.
• "a second view" — a second sky.

#The second sky

A second sky is a real second working calendar beside the first: the year beside a month, or a week beside a day. It shows whichever view you chose in "the second view".

• One shared day. Pick a day in either sky and the other moves to it. Each keeps its own view.
• It works like the first. It is drawn and answers your touch exactly as the main sky does, with its own motion.
• Commitments. Tap a commitment in the second sky and its page opens in the docket.
• Going back. A double-tap takes the second sky back to the view it was set to show, not home to today.
• Nothing dropped on it. The Shuttle — the suite's shared tray between Zenith apps — and a commitment you carry both land on the main sky only.
• The main sky keeps its jobs. The voice, the phone's calendars, Drive and arriving files all stay with the main sky. A second copy would silence the voice or take a link meant for the first.

#The desk clock

With "half-closed like a laptop" set to "desk clock", stand a fold half-closed. The flat lower half becomes a clock, and the sky keeps the upright half. On anything else, nothing is drawn.

The clock shows:

• the time, large and centred, on the app's clock — "19:05" with the 24-hour clock on, "7:05" with it off, always with its minutes. See Time & directions;
• the date under it, as "‹weekday› · ‹date›";
• the next thing today and the one after, each with how long until it — "‹title› · in 2h 5m", or "in 12 min" when it is under an hour.

Tap either one to open its page. With nothing left today, it reads "nothing else today".

While the clock is up, the day's list is not drawn and the docket stands down.

#A commitment's page, wide

With "a commitment's page, wide" set to "beside the details", a commitment's full page splits on a wide screen. Its picture takes one half — or, with no picture, a map of its place — and the details take the other. The picture is drawn clear there, with no darkening veil, because it is a picture rather than a background for words. With nothing to show on that half, the page fills the screen as usual. See A commitment's page.

#Folding and unfolding

With "folding and unfolding" set to "each screen its own", the screen you leave keeps the view it was showing. The screen you arrive at opens on its own view, on the same picked day. The calendar tells the screens apart by their narrower side, so turning a phone sideways never counts as folding it. On a phone that does not fold, none of this happens.

#The wider sky (free)

With "the wider sky" set to "magnify", on a wide enough screen, everything the sky draws grows by 35%: the marks, the words, and the reach of a touch, so what you touch still matches what you see. "expanse", and every narrower screen, looks exactly as it does on a phone. It applies in the second sky as well.

#See also.

Folds, tablets & wide screens · The day brief · Zenith Gold in the calendar · The Shuttle