Calendars
The calendar allows you to plan things in time. And to record events that will happen. It also allows you to view at a glance how things are arranged in time.
Calendars are populated by calendar events, which belong to calendar streams.
Here's how a calendar might look like:
Calendar Events
Calendar events are the atomic units of time planning and time recording. They live in the "calendar". They can be "full day" or "in day".
Events Properties
Calendar events have a name, and some notion of duration. Full day events start on a particular day, and last 1 or more full days. In day events start on a particular day and time, and last some amount of time, no greater than 48 hours.
Editing a calendar looks like this:
Sources Of Calendar Events
Events can exist on their own, or they can be generated by some other entity.
You can attach many calendar events to a single inbox task. The inbox task is their source. The events are "in day", and their name is identical to the inbox task that generates them.
Each birthday for a person generates a full day event on the respective birthday in that year.
Finally, each vacation has a full day event for the full duration of the vacation.
Calendar Streams
Calendar streams are containers of events. You can use them to group various types of events together. They can contain both full day events and in day events.
There are two types of calendar streams:
- User: created and managed by you.
- External iCal: created and managed in another tool (such as Google Calendar, Outlook, etc.) and imported into Thrive via an iCal feed.
External calendars are just a read only view of the original calendar. So you cannot create or modify calendars there.
Streams Properties
Calendar streams have a name and a color. For external calendars only the color can be modified
The Calendar
The calendar is a representation of your current events. You can view it as a schedule, or as a traditional calendar. You can zoom in and out to the typical resolution Thrive has: day, week, month, quarter, and year.
Here's a peek at some views:
