The day view

The day view shows one day as the earth itself, read like a clock. To reach it, tap today's earth in the year view, tap a day twice in the month view, or tap "day" in the "view in" row of a day's brief — the list of a day's commitments along the bottom of the screen.

#What you see

• The sun and moon. The sun hangs where it stands in the year view for this date, so stepping in never moves it. The moon sits at its true place and phase. Tap the sun to go back to the year. Tap the moon to go to the week.
• Daylight. The dark side of the globe is the real night for this date where you are. If the app does not know where you are, it uses 40°N. The first time you open the day view, the app asks for your location for this.
• The dial. Hour ticks ring the globe, marked "midnight", "6a", "noon" and "6p". Noon points at the sun and midnight away from it. The sun and moon never cover an hour word; the word steps aside until it is clear. The only thing that turns is the hand — your time zone's mark on the earth's edge. Where your longitude is known, it follows true solar time.
• Timed commitments. A commitment — anything on your calendar, an event or a thing to do — with a time tints its hours on the globe and sits as a dot on a ring round it. Ones that overlap take rings further in, with the earliest outermost. One with a length draws an arc. Names never sit on each other or on the moon. A commitment that runs past midnight draws only its part of this day.
• All-day commitments form a row of marks above the earth. Drag a finger along the row and the one under it is named above it.
• An empty day says "a quiet day · hold anywhere to add".
• Taps. Tap a mark or a dot to focus that commitment in the brief. Here the brief shows its place, its almanac — the calendar it belongs to — and its notes, up to six lines.
• Held sideways, the globe stands below the big date and to the right of "voice" and "add", never running through them.

#Ride the day's rim

A drag that begins on the globe or on the all-day row reads the dial. A drag anywhere else pages through the days.

• A bead rides under your finger, with a short wash of light either side. The hour it stands on is written right outside, such as "4:05p".
• Pass within about half an hour of a commitment and the bead lands on it and puts it in the brief. Sweep across empty sky — the calendar screen round the globe — and the brief goes back to the whole day. Over an all-day mark, your finger takes that mark instead.
• You always feel the rim, more strongly near a commitment. Landing on one is a firmer bump.
• While you are reading the dial, or right after, tap ✛ or hold the globe. A new commitment opens at the hour under the bead, rounded to 5 minutes.

#Page through days

Swipe sideways, starting anywhere but the globe and the all-day row. The globe slides with your finger. When you let go, the day moves on, one day for each short stretch you swiped, with a note. Which way counts as "next" follows "reverse the earth's spin" in Settings › time & directions.

#The time spin

This one happens back on the year view. While the current year is showing, long-press today's live earth and carry it round the orbit — the year ring round the sun. Each full loop rolls the calendar a year forward or back.

• The journey always starts at today, with a glow and a falling phrase. The earth in your hand glows brighter than its resting ghost.
• Loops add up. Each change of year ticks and tilts.
• The spin reaches from 1900 to 2200, or 1900 to 2100 while another calendar system (Gold) is chosen.
• It works only on the live earth, never the ghost earth. A drag that starts on the earth is kept for the spin, so it never turns into a hover. Leaving the year view ends it.

There is no on-screen hint for the time spin.

See also. Moving between the views · The day brief · Add a commitment · Time & directions · The year & years views