Add and colour on the calendar
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Two ways to plan faster in Day, Week, Month and Plan: add a task right where it belongs, and colour tasks by what matters to you.
Add a task at a time#
Double-click an empty quarter hour of Day or Week to add a task due then: type its name (and anything quick add understands) and press Enter. It appears as a block at once, even offline. A double-click in a day's Unscheduled lane adds one with the date only, and in the Month a double-click on an empty part of a day adds one due that day. Under a mouse, the quarter hour (or the Month day) under the pointer is lightly highlighted.
Right-click an empty place instead, or press and hold it on a touch screen, for a small menu: Add task here…, and in Day and Week New frame here… (a frame on that weekday, from that time) and New slot here… (a 30-minute slot). Holding a task block keeps its usual meaning, and a double-click on a task still opens it.
From the keyboard, q adds a task on the focused day: in Day and Week the selected task's day, else today. A time you type, like at 4pm, sets the time on that day.
Colour by project, label or priority#
Blocks and rows take their project's colour. To see something else at a glance, open the calendar's More actions menu and choose Colour by: Project, Label or Priority. The choice applies to Day, Week, Month and Plan, and this device remembers it.
- Label: a task takes the colour of its first label in your label order (the order of the Labels page) that isn't the default grey. Tasks without a coloured label are grey.
- Priority: priority 1, 2 and 3 take the red, orange and blue of the priority rings; priority 4 is grey.
Calendar events and frames keep their own look.
Boards have the same choice, shown as a coloured edge on the left of each card: in the project menu (Colour by…) of a project's board, or in Display options of a board view. It is one choice for every board on this device; Project, the default, leaves the cards as they are. Neither choice is synced.