Quick reference
The corner buttons, the gestures in each view, a few defaults worth knowing, and the calendar's limits, on one page. The sky is the whole calendar screen, one canvas that becomes each view.
Corner buttons
The words beside each button follow "button labels", which is on by default.
| Corner | Button | Tap | Hold |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bottom left | 🎙 "voice" | speak commitments | — |
| Bottom left | ✛ "add" | a new commitment on the picked day | "✛ a commitment", "◔ an almanac", "✎ a journal entry" |
| Bottom right | ‹ "back" (away from the year) | back | — |
| Bottom right | ◉ "today" (when not on today) | go to today | — |
| Bottom right | book "almanacs" | the almanac chips | the binder |
| Bottom right | ⚙ "settings" | settings | quick settings |
| Top right | ◐ "tomorrow" | tomorrow's sheet | — |
| Top right | star "AI" (when the assistant is on) | ask the sky | — |
| Top right | rocket "shuttle" | the Shuttle, with a count | — |
| Top left | the big date | go to today | — |
A commitment is anything on your calendar, an event or a thing to do. An almanac is one of your calendars, a named, coloured layer of commitments. The binder is the page where all your almanacs live. The Shuttle is the suite's shared tray for passing text and files between Zenith apps. Ask the sky is the calendar's built-in AI assistant, voiced by Cielo.
Gestures by view
Double-tap anywhere to go to today on the year. The phone's back retraces the way you came.
| View | Gesture | Does |
|---|---|---|
| Year | tap the sun | the years view |
| Year | tap today's earth / moon (this year) | fly to the day / week |
| Year | drag along the year ring (your year as an orbit round the sun), or hold it | scrub the days; the fan — the picked day's commitments — opens inside the ring |
| Year | hold today's earth and circle | spin through time, a year per loop, 1900–2200 |
| Year | drag through open space | hover over the bodies |
| Year | pinch / two-finger drag | zoom / pan; double-tap resets |
| Years | tap anywhere | the year view |
| Day | tap the sun / the moon | the year / week view |
| Day | run round the globe's rim | read the day like a dial |
| Day | swipe sideways off the globe | next / previous day |
| Day | hold anywhere | add at that hour, in 5-minute steps |
| Week | drag on the time grid | scrub days and commitments |
| Week | rest on a grey edge day while scrubbing | roll on a week |
| Week | swipe sideways off the grid | page a week |
| Week | pull the moon down past halfway | the month view |
| Week | hold a date | add |
| Month | drag over the grid | scrub the days |
| Month | tap a day, then again | its brief, then its day view |
| Month | sideways stroke on the moon or band | roll the months |
| Month | tap the moon, or lift it past halfway | the week view |
| Month | hold a day cell | add |
| Brief | tap / tap again / hold | focus / open its page / its menu |
| Binder | hold a row and drag | reorder |
The brief is the list of a day's commitments along the bottom of the sky.
Defaults worth knowing
| Setting | Starts as |
|---|---|
| Theme | "clean" (clean, mono and pastel are free) |
| My sky — the real stars over where you are (Gold) | off |
| Calendar system | gregorian (others are Gold) |
| Week begins on | monday |
| Commitment reminders · evening bells you set | on · on |
| Day-before notice · the morning | off · off (the morning comes at 8:00) |
| Warning before a commitment | at the moment it starts |
| Evening-before bell | 18:00 |
| Text size "everything" | the phone's own size |
| Reduce motion · remove glows | off |
| Button labels · haptics | on |
| Readback (spoken replies) | on |
| Chat memory (Gold) · "⌗ screen" | off · off |
| Allow destructive actions | off |
Limits
- Reminders are set for the next 30 days, at most 240 alarms.
- Drive brings changes down at most every 15 minutes; weather refreshes at most every 30.
- Three almanacs of your own are free. The ones that came with the app don't count.
- Holiday almanacs reach at most 20 years ahead.
Zenith Gold
Calendar gold is $1.99, once, for this app only — never a subscription. It opens more than three almanacs, backup & export, chat memory, every theme, my sky, the vivid colours, a picture as an almanac's mark, folds & tablets, and other calendar systems. See Zenith Gold — what unlocks in the calendar (Gold).
See also. Moving between the views · The settings book · Troubleshooting · Glossary