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The whole calendar on one page: what a finger does in each view, what every corner button does, the three kinds of commitment, and the routes that need no typing. The sky is the whole calendar screen, which becomes each view. A commitment is one thing you have to do.

What a finger does, by view

viewgestures
yearrun along the great ring to travel day by day · rest on a day to spread its commitments out in the fan · hold today's earth and circle the orbit to roll years (the time spin) · two fingers to zoom and move the solar system · drag through open space to read the bodies you pass · tap the sun for the years ladder · tap an earth for its day, the moon beside it for its week · a hold does not add here
yearsdrag to move through the years · tap anywhere to return to the year
dayrun a finger round the globe's rim to read the day hour by hour · swipe sideways, away from the globe, to page days · hold anywhere to add · tap the sun for the year, the moon for the week
weekmove a finger down the column of start times to read the week · keep it on a grey day at either side and the week rolls · swipe the dates for other weeks · hold a date to add on it · tap the moon for this week · carry the moon down past halfway for the month
montha finger over the grid reads the days · a sideways stroke rolls the months · hold a cell to add, the dim spill-over days included · tap a day, then the same day again, to open it · lift the moon up past halfway for the week
every viewdouble-tap anywhere to come home to today, let go of what is held and bring zoom and pan back to rest · back retraces the way you came · a day's brief ends with "view in" · hold a brief row for its menu · with my sky on (Gold), three fingers move the stars: pinch or spread to zoom, drag to pan, twist to tilt, double-tap with three fingers to put them back

A few words from that table:

  • the fan — on the year, a day you rest on spreads its commitments out of the ring toward the sun.
  • the time spin — on the year, hold the earth and circle the orbit; each loop rolls a year forward or back.
  • the years ladder — the years view.
  • the bodies you pass are your commitments, drawn on the year's orbit.
  • the brief — a chosen day's commitments listed along the bottom of the sky, the same list in every view.

More on each view: Moving between the views.

The corner buttons

cornerbuttontaphold
top leftthe big datego to today—
bottom left✛ (a cross), "add"a new commitment on the picked day"✛ a commitment" or "◔ an almanac"
bottom leftthe microphone, "voice"speak commitments—
bottom right‹, "back"back one step; stands anywhere but the year—
bottom right◉, "today"go to today; stands only when you are away from it—
bottom rightthe eye, "view"what every view shows; stands on every view (above ✛ on the shortest screens)—
bottom rightthe book, "almanacs"the floating almanac chipsthe binder
bottom right⚙ (a gear), "settings"quick settings beside itthe whole settings book
top right◐, "tomorrow"plan the day ahead—
top rightthe star, "AI"ask the sky; stands only while the assistant is on—
top rightthe rocket, "shuttle"the suite's shuttle, with a count when something rides it—
binder▣ (the shelves button)turn to the next shelfnames the other two shelves, and goes to the one picked

Quick settings — a tap on the gear ⚙ — holds "button labels", "nothing comes in", "nothing leaves this phone" and "all settings ›".

What the words in that table mean:

  • An almanac is a named, coloured layer of commitments, like one calendar. The almanac chips are the legend — the quick row for showing and hiding almanacs.
  • The binder is the page holding all your almanacs in order. Its three shelves are the binder, the archive and the pyre — where thrown-away things wait thirty days. See The shelves — binder, archive & pyre.
  • Ask the sky is the calendar's built-in AI assistant. See Ask the sky — the assistant.
  • The shuttle is the suite's shared tray for passing things between Zenith apps. See The Shuttle in the calendar.

The three kinds of commitment

glyphnamewhat it does
☄meteorhappens once and does not come back — what a new commitment is unless you say otherwise
↻asteroidcomes back: weekly, every other week, monthly, or on a longer rule you write
✦fixed starreturns every year on its own date

See What a commitment is.

The settings book

Hold the gear ⚙ in the bottom-right corner. Sixteen rows, in order:

  1. "the sky"
  2. "time & directions"
  3. "the almanac binder" — this opens the binder itself, not a page
  4. "the almanacs" — the switches for every almanac zenith ships, not a page
  5. "connections"
  6. "make zenith your calendar"
  7. "the calendar's voice"
  8. "ask the sky"
  9. "shuttle"
  10. "notifications"
  11. "the morning"
  12. "files"
  13. "safety"
  14. "ease"
  15. "zenith gold"
  16. "about"

At the foot is "· close ·". Two pages sit inside another: "folds & tablets" is reached from "zenith gold", and "my sky" from "the sky" while my sky is on. Stepping out of either lands back on the page it sits in. Back, a page's own "‹ ‹name›" row, and a swipe down on a page all step out one layer. See The settings book.

Routes that need no typing

  • Hold the app's icon on the home screen for "new commitment", "speak commitments", "ask the sky" and "the years", plus "Place in Calendar" and "tomorrow plan".
  • The quick-settings tile, added from the phone's own quick-settings editor, places a commitment over whatever app you are in, without bringing the calendar to the front.
  • On the sky, the microphone "voice" under ✛ speaks commitments.
  • On the commitment form, the microphone at the end of the title field is "say it — the sky fills it in".

See Widgets, shortcuts, the tile & links and Speaking, one commitment & tomorrow. Every other term is in Glossary.

See also.

Moving between the views · The settings book · Troubleshooting · Glossary

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