The calendar

The calendar shows every project’s dated work on one grid. It is not a separate list of events: a task with a date and a time is the same object you see in the task list, drawn in a different place.

The calendar is a Pro feature. On the free plan the entry is visible but locked.

Choosing a layout

Five layouts sit at the top of the screen:

• 1 day for a single column of hours
• 3 days and 6 days for a rolling window
• Week for the classic seven column grid
• Month for a grid of boxes with each day’s items stacked inside

Week is the default. Whichever you pick is remembered.

All-day and timed items

Each day has an all-day row above the hour grid, for things that have a date but no time. Items with a start time are drawn as blocks in the grid, sized by their duration if you set an end time.

Drag a block up or down to move it, drag its bottom edge to change how long it lasts.

Dragging tasks onto the day

The Arrange tasks panel lists undated and unscheduled work next to the grid. Drag an item from there onto an hour and it gets that date and time. This is the main planning loop in Todowl: capture during the day on Today, then place the leftovers on real hours.

Projects as colours

The sidebar next to the calendar lists your projects, each with its colour, and a checkbox to hide or show it. Turning a project off strips its items from the grid without touching them, which makes a busy week readable when you only care about one thread.

Highlighting weekends

Calendar settings include a toggle for tinting Saturday and Sunday, so the shape of a week is visible at a glance.

Recurring events

An event can repeat daily, on weekdays, weekly, monthly, yearly, on a custom interval or on a specific set of dates. You can end a repeat never, on a date, or after a number of occurrences, and you can skip individual dates.

Moving one occurrence of a series asks what you meant:

• Only this event moves that single occurrence and leaves the rest alone.
• This and weekly repeats changes the time for that weekday across the whole series.
• All events moves the entire series from that date onward.

If the series already has different times set for particular weekdays, choosing “all events” warns you that those overrides will be reset before it does anything.

Bringing in outside calendars

The calendar can display read-only events from a public holiday calendar or from any iCal URL. See Subscribe to an external calendar.

Reminders

An event with a start time can carry a reminder, which fires while the app is open in a browser tab. Reminders explains what that does and does not cover.