Reading the calendar

What you are looking at

• Blue blocks are time Pensova set aside for your tasks. The title is the task’s.
• Gray blocks are everything already on the calendars you count: meetings, appointments, practice, dinner.
• Today is tinted, with a red line at the current time.
• All-day events sit in a strip above the calendar.

Views

Day, 3 days, 5 days and Week, from the switcher at the top. Week starts on your first day of the week and shows all seven days. The arrows move by the same span; Now returns to today. On a phone the calendar scrolls sideways for the wider views.

Dragging a block

Drag a blue block to another time or day. It snaps to quarter hours, keeps its length, and moves in your calendar as well. A block you move by hand stays there from then on: Pensova treats it as fixed and fits other tasks around it. Editing the task’s duration, deadline, priority or split setting releases it again.

A drop is refused if it would overlap another of Pensova’s blocks, if the time is more than a day in the past, or if it is beyond the fourteen days Pensova plans ahead. Meetings are not checked: you chose the time.

Moving or deleting in Google Calendar or Outlook

Move one of Pensova’s events in Google Calendar or Outlook and the app keeps your change, exactly as if you had dragged it here. Delete one and the task goes back to No time yet, rather than pretending it still has a time.

When a meeting lands on a task block

Within about a minute, Pensova hears from Google or Microsoft that the calendar changed and moves your task blocks (for a calendar they do not report on, such as some holiday calendars, within a quarter of an hour). The task that lost its time moves to the next free time; nothing else on your calendar is touched, and blocks you moved by hand stay put.