Draw on the calendar

Draw over Week, Month, and Column view with a pen or a highlighter. New strokes stay on their dates as you move around, change the start of the week, or resize the window. Week drawings also stay on their times. Drawings are saved to your account and are private to you, even on a shared calendar.

Drawing works on the desktop calendar. Month view offers it when one month is on screen.

In Column view, all dates appear while you draw. Columns with older drawings keep their compact date list. A date with a new drawing stays visible after you finish, even if it has no events. Draw inside the date rows below the month header.

Older Month and Column drawings keep their original positioning.

Start drawing

Choose Draw in the calendar's top bar, or press ⌥W. The calendar stops responding to clicks while you draw, and a toolbar appears at the bottom.

• Pen and Highlighter draw. The size menu sets each one's size separately.
• Choose one of the seven colors.
• Eraser removes the strokes you drag across.
• Select picks strokes so you can move, resize, rotate, or recolor them.

Choose Done, or press Escape, to stop drawing. If strokes are selected, Escape clears the selection first.

Shapes and straight lines

• Hold ⇧ while you drag to draw a straight line.
• Keep holding at the end of a stroke to snap it to a line, circle, or box.
• With strokes selected, hold ⇧ while you turn the rotate handle to rotate in 15° steps.

Undo, clear, and hide

Undo drawing takes back your last change. Clear removes the drawings in the current view, and Delete selected removes only the selected strokes. Hide drawings hides every drawing without deleting it.

Drawing limit

Your account can keep up to 5,000 strokes and 16 MB of drawings across all your calendars. Once you reach the limit, a new stroke disappears and a message asks you to erase some strokes first. You can still move, resize, recolor, and erase the strokes you have.