Event View

The Event View provides a calendar-based interface to visualize and interact with your tasks. It allows you to see tasks plotted on different time scales, navigate through dates, and perform actions directly from the calendar.

Open the event view

1. Open the Task Genius View.
2. Select Event nav item in the left sidebar.
3. You will see the tasks grouped by event in the right panel.

Usage

The Event View offers several ways to look at your tasks:

• Multiple views: Switch between different perspectives:
  • Year view: Get a high-level overview of the entire year.
  • Month view: See tasks laid out across a specific month.
  • Week view: Focus on the current or selected week.
  • Day view: Examine tasks scheduled for a single day.
  • Agenda view: View upcoming tasks in a list format.
• Navigation: Easily move through time:
  • Previous/Next : Navigate to the previous or next year, month, week, or day depending on the active view.
  • Today: Quickly jump back to the current date.
• View switching: Use the buttons or dropdown in the header to select your preferred view (Year, Month, Week, Day, Agenda). Your last used view is remembered.
• Date display: The header clearly shows the currently displayed date range, adapting its format based on the active view (e.g., "MMMM YYYY" for Month view, "MMM D - D, YYYY" for Week view).

Task Display

Tasks are processed and displayed on the calendar as events:

• Date mapping: Tasks are primarily placed on the calendar based on their Due date. If Due date is not available, it will fall back to Scheduled date and then Start date. Tasks without any of these dates are currently not displayed in the calendar view.
• All-day events: By default, tasks are treated as all-day events on their assigned date.
• Multi-day events: If a task has both a Start date and a Due date that are different, it will be displayed spanning across those days (inclusive).
• Completed tasks: Completed tasks are visually distinct (e.g., shown in grey).

Interactions

You can interact with the calendar in various ways:

• Clicking an event: Selects the corresponding task, will open the task in the detail side panel.
• Clicking a day (Month/Week view):
  • Can be configured to open the Quick Capture modal to quickly add a task for that day.
  • Can switch the view to the Day view for the selected date (Note: This is not yet implemented).
• Clicking a month (Year view): Switches the view to the Month view for the selected month.
• Right-clicking an event: Opens a context menu with relevant actions for that task.
• Completing an event: A mechanism (like a checkbox on the event, depending on the view) allows marking the task as complete directly from the calendar.

Settings

You can read more about the settings in the Basic view settings page.

Event view has a special setting:

First day of week: This setting determines the first day of the week for the calendar. It can be set to any day of the week.