Moving between the views
You move between the five views by touching the bodies on the sky — the whole app, one canvas that becomes each view. The sun, the earth and the moon are doors.
The doors
| From | Touch | Arrives at |
|---|---|---|
| year | the sun, near its centre (within a fifth of the ring's radius) | the years ladder |
| year | an earth — today's, or the ghost earth at a day you travelled to | the day |
| year | the moon beside either earth | the week |
| years | anywhere | the year, on the year shown |
| day | the sun | the year |
| day | the moon | the week |
| week | the moon | this week, on today |
| week | carry the moon down past halfway | the month |
| month | lift the moon up past halfway | the week |
| month | a day, then that same day again | the day |
The ghost earth is the faint earth drawn at any day you pick other than today, or in another year.
The doors are on top. If a body is touched at all, it wins over whatever is drawn round it. A crowded month cannot steal the moon's taps. An earth gives you a generous margin round it. The moon in the year wants a closer touch, on purpose. The commitments under a door are not lost: scrub the ring to that day and the whole day opens. See Scrubbing the ring & spinning time.
Taps that pick a day instead
On the year, everything else picks a day rather than a view.
- A commitment body picks its whole day and opens that day's fan — its commitments spread out toward the sun.
- A tap on or very near the ring, or on the zodiac band outside it, travels to that date.
- A tap on a commitment in the open fan opens its page.
In the day and the week, a tap on a commitment opens it in the brief — the picked day's list along the bottom — rather than changing view. In the day, that is an all-day mark or a dot on the globe. In the week, it is a start time. A tap on a date in the week, or on the empty grid under it, picks that day.
A Zenith Tasks star opens in Zenith Tasks, never another view — its mark in the day, its time in the week, its row in the brief. On the year a star's mark picks its day, as a body does. In the month you tap the day, as ever. See The day brief.
By name, not by touch
- The brief's "view in" line. Every brief ends with "view in" and the names of the other views, widest to narrowest, leaving out the one you are in. A tap carries that date there, with its brief pinned again.
- A brief row's hold menu. Hold a row for "→ annual view", "→ monthly view", "→ weekly view" and "→ daily view". Each carries that one commitment into that view and arrives on it.
- A commitment's own page. Each part of its date is a door: the weekday to the week, the month to the month, the day number to the day, the year to the year, the time to the day. The page also carries its own row of "annual", "monthly", "weekly", "daily". See A commitment's page.
A view reached by name arrives face-on, on its date.
Back
The phone's back gesture and every left chevron ‹, "back", retrace the way you came. ‹ stands in the bottom-right column anywhere but the year. You land on the day, week, month and year each view was showing.
- Back from a month to a week lines the week up on the day you are looking at.
- Back from a week to the day it came from dives back into that day's moon.
- When there is nothing left to retrace, the day shrinks into its earth, the week into its moon, and anything else goes straight to the year.
- On the years ladder, back tips the ring flat again, to the year.
- On the year, back is not answered, and the app closes.
Only steps made going forward are kept, and only below the year. Reaching the year by any route clears the trail — so tapping the day view's sun empties it outright. Up to 32 steps are kept. Every back the app answers plays the same rising note.
Home to today
There are three ways home:
- The ringed dot ◉, "today", in the bottom-right column.
- The big date in the top-left corner.
- A double-tap anywhere on the sky.
The first two pick today, bring this year back, line the week up on today and flatten the years ladder. From any other view they return to the year. They leave zoom and pan alone.
The double-tap does all of that, and also lets go of whatever your finger was holding, closes the brief, and puts zoom and pan back to rest. In the docket's second sky — a second view beside the first on a wide screen (Gold) — a double-tap instead returns that sky to the view it was set to show. See The docket, the second sky & the desk clock. A double-tap with three fingers is not this: with my sky on (Gold), it only brings the stars back to where they started. See Skies, colours & my sky. Nothing on screen mentions the double-tap.
While moving
Some changes are a dive — the animated move where the camera flies at the body you touched and the next view opens out of it. The rest are a quick fade. No tap and no back is answered while a dive runs. See What a commitment is.
See also.
The sky · The day brief · The year & the years · The week view