Glossary

Items

Event: An item with a date or time, such as an appointment, flight, or bill.
Period: A named date range, such as a trip or project. Events on those dates stay in their own calendars.
Draft: An event without a date yet. Drafts wait in the Inbox.
Marked day: A color, and optionally a name, attached to a day. It has no time or duration. See Mark a day.
Recurring series: One repeating schedule with occurrences on individual dates.
Occurrence: One date in a recurring series.
Event type: A preset for how an event looks, whether it is all-day, and which reminders it starts with.
Reminder type: The event type drawn as a marker at a start time, with no duration. Not the same as a reminder.
Reminder: A Push or Email notification set in an event’s Notify field.
Label: A tag for a project, person, or topic that can apply to any event type.
Busy / Free: Whether an event counts as busy time. Events are Busy unless set to Free. When the When agent looks for free time, Free events do not block a slot.
Locked: An event that cannot be moved or archived until you unlock it.

Calendar: Owns events and periods. It can also include other calendars in its view.
Main: The private calendar every account has. It cannot be shared.
Included calendar: A calendar whose events appear in another calendar’s view without being copied.
Shared calendar: A calendar another person has given you view access to.
Subscribed calendar: A read-only public calendar you added from Discover.

Archive: Remove an item from your views. Archived items stay in Settings → Archive, where you can restore them for 60 days.
Permanent deletion: Remove an archived item so it cannot be restored.

Waitlist: Where an account waits until an invite code activates it. See Get help with sign-in or access.
View only: An account whose free trial ended without a subscription. You can open and export everything but not edit it. See Plan & billing.

Grid: The Week, Month, or Column surface that shows your schedule.
Nav rail: The desktop navigation on the left.
Top bar: The strip above the grid with date controls, search, filters, and the view switcher.
Sidebar: The widget stack on the right, with the When agent's chat at the bottom.
Dashboard: A page of widgets, separate from the grid.
Inbox: The page for requests waiting for your answer, drafts, and the When agent's daily briefing.
When agent: The AI that answers questions about your calendar in chat, makes the changes you ask for, and writes a daily briefing. See Use the When agent.
Discover: The gallery of public calendars you can subscribe to.
Command menu: Search and commands in one menu, opened with ⌘K or Ctrl+K.
Event editor: The panel where you edit an event.
Filled / Subtle: The two event styles. Filled has a solid background and Subtle has a lighter tint.

Event: An item with a date or time, such as an appointment, flight, or bill.
Period: A named date range, such as a trip or project. Events on those dates stay in their own calendars.
Draft: An event without a date yet. Drafts wait in the Inbox.
Marked day: A color, and optionally a name, attached to a day. It has no time or duration. See Mark a day.
Recurring series: One repeating schedule with occurrences on individual dates.
Occurrence: One date in a recurring series.
Event type: A preset for how an event looks, whether it is all-day, and which reminders it starts with.
Reminder type: The event type drawn as a marker at a start time, with no duration. Not the same as a reminder.
Reminder: A Push or Email notification set in an event’s Notify field.
Label: A tag for a project, person, or topic that can apply to any event type.
Busy / Free: Whether an event counts as busy time. Events are Busy unless set to Free. When the When agent looks for free time, Free events do not block a slot.
Locked: An event that cannot be moved or archived until you unlock it.

Calendar: Owns events and periods. It can also include other calendars in its view.
Main: The private calendar every account has. It cannot be shared.
Included calendar: A calendar whose events appear in another calendar’s view without being copied.
Shared calendar: A calendar another person has given you view access to.
Subscribed calendar: A read-only public calendar you added from Discover.

Archive: Remove an item from your views. Archived items stay in Settings → Archive, where you can restore them for 60 days.
Permanent deletion: Remove an archived item so it cannot be restored.

Waitlist: Where an account waits until an invite code activates it. See Get help with sign-in or access.
View only: An account whose free trial ended without a subscription. You can open and export everything but not edit it. See Plan & billing.

Grid: The Week, Month, or Column surface that shows your schedule.
Nav rail: The desktop navigation on the left.
Top bar: The strip above the grid with date controls, search, filters, and the view switcher.
Sidebar: The widget stack on the right, with the When agent's chat at the bottom.
Dashboard: A page of widgets, separate from the grid.
Inbox: The page for requests waiting for your answer, drafts, and the When agent's daily briefing.
When agent: The AI that answers questions about your calendar in chat, makes the changes you ask for, and writes a daily briefing. See Use the When agent.
Discover: The gallery of public calendars you can subscribe to.
Command menu: Search and commands in one menu, opened with ⌘K or Ctrl+K.
Event editor: The panel where you edit an event.
Filled / Subtle: The two event styles. Filled has a solid background and Subtle has a lighter tint.