Moving between the views

You move between the views by touching the bodies on the sky — the whole calendar screen, one canvas that becomes each view. A view you reach this way arrives face-on, on its date. The phone's back retraces the way you came.

#Tap routes

• In the year view, the nearest body under your finger wins, so in a crowded July you get the one you aimed at. Today's earth and moon are drawn, and work as doors, only while the current year is showing.
• "view in". Every day brief — the list of a day's commitments along the bottom of the sky — ends with "view in" and the other views. Tap one to carry the date there with its brief pinned. Hold a row in the brief for its menu, which carries one commitment — anything on your calendar — into a view, focused.
• From a commitment's page, each part of its date takes you to its view: the weekday to the week, the month to the month, the day number to the day, the year to the year, and the time to the day. Its "view in" row offers annual, monthly, weekly and daily.

#Home to today

• ◉ "today" and tapping the big date both pick today and bring this year back face-on. From any other view, they return you to the year. Zoom and pan stay as they were.
• Double-tap anywhere on the sky does more. Whatever your finger held is let go, the brief closes, zoom and pan come to rest, and the sky goes to today on the year. In the second sky of the docket — on a wide screen, the side panel beside the sky (Gold) — a double-tap returns that sky to its chosen view on the main sky's day. There is no on-screen hint for this.

#Back

One back — the phone's gesture or ‹ "back" at the bottom right — does the first of these that applies:

1. A flight is under way. Nothing happens; the flight finishes.
2. A sheet, page or panel is open. The top one closes and you return to where it came from. Settings goes back to its list or parent page.
3. The almanac chips are open. They close.
4. The views retrace your trail. You return to the view you left last, on the same day, week and month. Up to 32 steps are kept, and the same place twice in a row counts once. Going back from month to week lands on the week holding the picked day.
5. The trail has run out. From the day, the globe shrinks back into its earth. From the week, the week shrinks into its moon. Anything else goes to the year. From the years, back returns to the year.
6. On the year, back leaves the app.

Reaching the year by any route empties the trail. The day view's sun clears it too. When you ask the sky — the calendar's built-in AI assistant — to go "back", it works the same way.

The back sound. Every back plays the day's climb back to the year, once per back. That includes the gesture, every ‹, a sheet or page closed its own way, and a cancelled edit. The back that leaves the app is silent. The sound follows the sound switch and volume.

#Hovering the open sky

On the face-on year, drag a finger through open space, away from the ring. It reads the bodies it passes, like a mouse pointer. The nearest body within reach takes the brief:

• a celestial or astrology body is focused on its own;
• an almanac's body — one of your calendars, a coloured layer of commitments — picks its whole day and opens that day's fan, the day's commitments spread inside the year ring.

Each new body plays a note. You feel it only over a body, never over empty sky. A drag that starts on a commitment in the open fan moves across the fan instead. One that starts on the ring scrubs the ring. One that starts on today's earth is kept for the time spin. There is no on-screen hint for hovering.

See also. The orrery · The day brief · The year & years views · Flights and fades · The docket & the second sky (Gold) · Sound across the suite