The Calendar
The Calendar answers when. Tasks with a date appear on it; drag one to a different day to reschedule.
Ways to look at it
Section titled “Ways to look at it”| Mode | Good for |
|---|---|
| Month | The shape of the month; spotting the overloaded week |
| Week | Planning the next few days properly |
| Day | One day in detail |
| N Days | A stretch of days you pick — anywhere from 2 to 6, 3 to start with. Five gives you a working week without the weekend taking a third of the screen |
| Agenda | A chronological list rather than a grid |
| List | Everything relevant, including overdue, as a flat list |
N Days is the dropdown between Week and Day; choosing a number from it both sets the count and switches you into that mode.
Whichever grid you’re in, today is tinted down its whole column — the Month cell, and the full height of the column in Week and the multi-day modes — so you never have to hunt for where “now” is before reading anything else. It’s a lighter wash than the one you get while dragging something, so a calendar sitting still never looks like it’s mid-drop.
Day view doesn’t get it: there’s only one column, so there’d be nothing to tell it apart from.
Day hours
Section titled “Day hours”If you only care about part of the day, say 9 AM to 5 PM, set Day hours in Settings › General › Dates & times. Week, the multi-day view and Day then show just those hours, spaced out to fill the calendar’s height. Month, Agenda and List aren’t affected.
Nothing outside your hours is hidden from you. The hours before and after fold into a slim band above and below the grid:
- One item outside your hours shows on its day’s band with its time and title. Click it to open it.
- More than one shows as a count, like “2 earlier” or “3 later”. Click it for the list. On a phone, tap the count to open the list as a sheet.
- Something that runs across the edge, like an 8:30 to 9:30 meeting, stays in the grid. It’s cut at the edge with a dotted line, so you can tell it starts earlier or runs later.
- The current time, when it’s outside your hours, is shown on the band’s edge.
To see the folded hours, click the band’s label on the left (for example 12–9 AM), or Show in its list. They stay open until you leave the calendar; click the label again to fold them back. To schedule something outside your hours, unfold them first: dragging onto a folded band doesn’t drop anything there.
Day hours sync to your other devices.
Making and moving things
Section titled “Making and moving things”- Drag a task to another day to change its date.
- Click an empty day to create a task there.
- Click a task to open it.
- The little notebook beside each date is that day’s daily note. It’s colored when the note exists and faint when it doesn’t. Click it to open the note, or to create one from your daily-note template. It’s in every view — month, week, day, agenda and list — and in the Tasks side panel next to the day you’re looking at.
Start dates
Section titled “Start dates”A task sits on its due day. If it has only a start date, it sits on its start day instead.
To see where a task begins as well, turn on Show start dates in the ⋯ menu (on a phone it’s in the View sheet). A task that starts and is due on different days then also gets a dashed ▶ marker on its start day, at its start time. Click the marker to open the task. To move the task, drag its own entry on the due day, because the marker doesn’t drag.
Ghosts
Section titled “Ghosts”Future occurrences of a repeating task show as faint outlines. They’re not real tasks yet — they don’t count towards anything or clutter your lists — but you can see them coming, which is the whole reason to look at a month view.
Overdue
Section titled “Overdue”Overdue tasks get their own section rather than being scattered across dates that have already passed. It’s a list you can work through, not an archaeology exercise.
The side panel
Section titled “The side panel”The same backlog and checklist panel the board uses, without the board’s Notes tab. Drag anything unscheduled onto a day to schedule it.
Your real calendar
Section titled “Your real calendar”The Calendar can also show your actual meetings from Google, iCloud or a subscribed feed, so you’re not planning work against a calendar you can’t see. That’s off until you set it up — see Show your real calendar.
Until a license key is entered, Pellet doesn’t fetch external events at all, so the grid shows your tasks and nothing else even if a calendar is already connected. Enter a key and the events appear.