The year & years views

The year view is home. It shows the whole year as the orrery — your year drawn as an orbit round the sun — seen face-on. Tap its sun to open the years view, "the sun, moving through the years".

#The year view

• The title. At the top left stands the picked day, such as "september 18", with "friday · 2026" under it. When more than one almanac — one of your calendars, a coloured layer of commitments — can take a new commitment, the name of the one new commitments land in follows. In another calendar system (Gold), you see that system's date, with the gregorian date small under it.
• Bodies. Each commitment — anything on your calendar, an event or a thing to do — is a body. A ☄ meteor (happens once) has a short tail. A ↻ asteroid (repeats) is a body inside a thin ring. A ✦ fixed star (comes back every year) has spikes. The picked day's bodies are drawn larger.
• Today and the picked day. Today's earth and moon are live only while the current year is showing. Any other picked day, or another year, shows a faint ghost earth at that day.
• The fan. A picked day's commitments open inside the ring as the fan — the day's commitments spread out, earliest at the top.
• Touch. The sun opens the years. The live earth opens the day. The live moon opens the week. An almanac's body puts its day in the brief — the list of a day's commitments along the bottom — with its fan open. A body from the celestial or astrology almanacs puts that entry in the brief. The ring picks that date.
• The brief runs to the foot of the frame here, rather than stopping above the corner buttons. Its list grows upward and stops below the field of rocks.
• Held sideways, the ring and its field stand below the big date and to the right of "voice" and "add" and their words.

The app opens here. ◉ "today", tapping the big date, or a double-tap bring you back.

#Scrub the ring

Drag starting on the ring to scrub it. Holding the ring does the same, with a firmer tick. A single tap on the ring, or on the zodiac band outside it, picks that one date.

• Along the ring, the angle of your finger is the date. The picked day's fan opens, and each change of month plays a note and a tick.
• Scrubbing never changes the year; only the time spin does. With Settings › time & directions › the year ring shows set to "next 365 days", an angle already passed this year reads as next year's day.
• Move inward onto the open fan and your finger stops choosing days. It moves across that day's commitments instead.
• Let go and the fan stays open on the day your finger left.
• You feel it: a bump every few millimetres over something, none over empty space, and harder over a heavier day.
• Holding the ring does not add a commitment. To add, tap ✛, or hold a day in the other views.

#Pinch and pan

Two fingers work in the year view only, and not while a finger is scrubbing the ring.

• Pinch to zoom, from 0.6× to 3×.
• Drag with two fingers to pan. How far you can pan grows with the zoom.
• One finger never pans. It taps, scrubs and leaves a comet trail. Two fingers clear the trail.
• Words on the screen keep their size as you zoom.
• A double-tap puts zoom and pan back.

There is no on-screen hint for pinch and pan.

#The years view

The year ring tipped edge-on, with a ladder of years stacked up and down the screen.

• The ladder. Each rung is one year's ring seen edge-on, with the earth on it at the same season and the year's name beside it. The middle rung is brightest. With another calendar system chosen, each rung is named in that system.
• The title is the year in large type, then "the sun, moving through the years". The hint at the foot reads "pull the sun through the years · tap to return".
• Moving. Drag up or down to move the sun through the years. Pulling down goes to earlier years. It reaches from 1900 to 2200, or 1900 to 2100 while another calendar system is chosen.
• Leaving. Any tap, or back, returns to the year view on the year shown.

To reach it, tap the sun in the year view, or use the launcher shortcut "the years".

See also. The orrery · The day brief · The day view and the time spin · Moving between the views · Time & directions · Calendar systems & names