Calendar
The Calendar brings every dated thing in OrientME onto one timeline: tasks, routines, plan items, events, trip days, flights, stays, and journal entries. It’s the cross-section view — where Orient is about today, the calendar is about when.
Views
The toggle in the calendar header switches between Agenda, Week, Month, and Events:
- Agenda — a day-by-day list of the next 30 days, each item tagged with its source. Routines have a circle you can tap to mark them done right from the list.
- Week — a time-gridded week for a closer look at timed items, with each block sized to its duration and overlapping items packed side by side.
- Month — a full month grid with colored dots and icons marking what’s on each day.
- Events — the dated occasions you’re attending: concerts, games, dinners, appointments, birthdays, anniversaries. This is the one source you can add and edit right here — everything else on the calendar is a read-only reflection of where it lives. See Events for how to create and manage them.
Use the ‹ › arrows to move between weeks or months, and Today to jump back. (Agenda always shows the next 30 days, so it has no period controls.)
A today strip along the top gives you the day at a glance: routines done, tasks done vs. planned, your active trip, and whether you’ve journaled yet.
On mobile, opening the calendar shows the current week and scrolls straight to today, so the day you care about sits near the top without scrolling. Tap any day — a chip in the week strip or a day’s header in the agenda — to open its day view, laid out like the calendar apps you’re used to: all-day items sit at the top, and below them an hour-by-hour grid places each item at its time, sized to its duration, with overlapping items side by side. On today, an amber line marks now, and the view opens scrolled to the right part of the day. Swipe left or right (or use the ‹ › arrows) to move between days, and tap a block to check off a routine or open a task, trip, or event.
Reschedule by dragging
In month view, drag a task from one day to another to reschedule it — you’ll see a Moved to [day] confirmation. Cycle days are gently tinted so you can see your active cycle at a glance.
You can also change times without opening anything: in week view, grab a task or event block and slide it up or down — it snaps to 15-minute steps, shows the new time as you drag, and saves when you let go (an event keeps its length; only its start moves). On mobile, do the same in the day view: press and hold a block until it lifts (you'll feel a tap), then slide it to its new time. Items whose times come from somewhere else — routines, flights, journal entries — can't be dragged; open them instead.
The day drawer
Click any day in Month view to open a drawer that groups everything happening that day by source — events, tasks, routines, plan items, trip days/flights/stays/activities, journal, notes, and your Health workouts and meals, plus any imported calendars. At the bottom, two quick-add buttons let you add to that day without leaving the drawer: Task opens Quick capture with the date pre-filled, and Event opens the event editor for a new occasion on that date.
Subscribe from Google, Apple, or Outlook
You can view your whole OrientME calendar inside the calendar app you already use. Click Subscribe in the calendar header (next to Import) and choose Enable calendar feed — or do the same from Account → Calendar subscription. You’ll get a private subscription link with a Copy button, plus one-tap Google and Apple buttons that open those apps with the feed ready to add (on mobile, open Account → Calendar subscription, where Subscribe opens your calendar app and Share link sends it anywhere). For Outlook or any other app, copy the link and paste it into that app’s “subscribe by URL” option.
The feed includes everything on your calendar — tasks, routines, plan items, trip days, flights, stays, events, journal entries, reminders, workouts, and meals — as a read-only layer alongside your other calendars. That includes things other people have shared with you through a workspace: a trip or routine someone shares with you shows up in your subscribed Google or Apple calendar too, just like it does in the app. A recurring occasion — a birthday or anniversary you set to repeat — lands on each date it recurs, not just the first one.
The link is private — anyone who has it can see your calendar, so only share it where you mean to. If a link ever gets out, use Generate new link to replace it (the old one stops working), or Turn off to switch the feed off entirely.
Reminders on your phone
The feed includes built-in reminders, tuned to what each item is: timed items alert 10 minutes before they start, flights alert 2 hours before departure, and date-only items with a deadline feel — tasks, reminders, plan items, and occasions — alert at 9 AM on the day. Ambient items (trip day bands, stays, journal entries, meals, all-day routines) stay quiet, and anything you've already completed won't ping you.
Whether those reminders actually fire depends on the app you subscribed with:
- Apple Calendar (iPhone, iPad, Mac) honors the feed's reminders — you'll get real notifications. If you'd rather not, turn on Remove Alerts for the subscription (on iPhone: tap Calendars at the bottom of the Calendar app, then the ⓘ next to the OrientME feed).
- Google Calendar ignores reminders that come with subscribed feeds. To get notified there, open Google Calendar's settings, pick the OrientME calendar under Settings for other calendars, and add your own default notifications.
Subscribed calendars are read-only and refresh on the other app’s own schedule — usually within a few hours, not instantly. So a brand-new task — or something a workspace member just shared with you — may take a little while to appear in Google or Apple Calendar, and items that stop being shared fade out on the same schedule. Reminders follow the same rule: something you add minutes before it starts may not reach your phone in time to alert.
Bring another calendar in
You can also go the other way — pull a calendar you keep elsewhere into OrientME so it shows up alongside everything else. Click Import at the top of the Calendar (right next to Subscribe), choose Add a calendar, give it a name, paste its .ics or webcal link, pick a color, and add it — its events appear on the calendar behind the popover right away. The same controls live in Account → Imported calendars if you prefer to manage them there. Either way, imported events show on your Calendar as a read-only layer in the color you chose, on both web and mobile.
Not sure where your link is? The add form has a “Where do I find my calendar’s link?” helper that spells out the steps for each app:
- Google Calendar — On a computer: Settings → the calendar (under “Settings for my calendars”) → Integrate calendar → Secret address in iCal format.
- Apple iCloud — Share the calendar as a Public Calendar and copy its
webcal://link. - Outlook — Calendar settings → Shared calendars → Publish → copy the ICS link.
- Plus any sports schedule, team, or service that offers an
.ics/“subscribe” link.
You can add up to three. Imported calendars are read-only — you can recolor or remove them, but their events are edited wherever they live, not in OrientME. They refresh on their own; opening your Calendar checks for updates.
That means the link you pasted needs a login, so OrientME can’t read it. In Google Calendar this
almost always means you copied the Public address for a calendar that isn’t shared publicly — use
the Secret address in iCal format instead (it’s in the same Integrate calendar section). Don’t
paste the “Add to Google Calendar” / shareable link (it contains ?cid=) or the address you see
in your browser’s address bar while viewing Google Calendar — those open the Google Calendar website,
they aren’t a calendar feed. A real feed ends in .ics. If you copied a secret link a while ago and
it stopped working, the provider may have reset it; just copy a fresh one.
Imported events are just shown, not copied — they’re never included in the calendar you publish with the subscription link above, and they don’t change anything in your OrientME data.
Everything links back
Clicking an item takes you to wherever it lives: tasks open their detail view, routines and plan items open Routines, trip events open the itinerary, journal entries open the Journal, notes open Notes, and a workout or meal opens the matching Health tab. A flight goes one better: it opens the trip's Logistics tab with that exact flight highlighted (and expanded, on mobile), so you land on the flight itself — stays and transport land on Logistics too. Events are the exception — they open right here in the event editor, so you can edit them in place. The calendar is a map of your data, not a separate copy of it.