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Getting started

Create an account and confirm your email address with the link you receive. After that you can connect Google Calendar, subscribe to calendar links and create share links; everything else works straight away.

First put in what is fixed: classes, work, training. Then add what may move. On your phone, install Orondia from your browser's share menu (“Add to Home Screen”).

Fixed, flexible and tasks

• Fixed happens when it happens. The planner does not touch it.
• Flexible has a window (“not before”, “not after”), a preferred time and a length. The planner finds it a slot, as close to your preference as it can.
• Task is flexible with a deadline. If it is not ticked off when its time has passed, it comes back by itself at the next free moment.

To make a block: drag across an empty stretch of the week, double-click, press N, or use Quick add (Q).

Quick add

Type a line and Orondia picks out what it recognises; the rest is the title. You see what it understood before you save.

• dentist tomorrow 2:30pm 30m — tomorrow at half past two, half an hour.
• lunch friday flexible 12-2pm 1h — an hour somewhere between twelve and two.
• gym 3/10 6-7pm — on 3 October. A hyphen is always a time; only a slash is a date.
• On a 12-hour clock, work 9-5 runs until five in the afternoon.

How the planner decides

The planner only moves something for a reason: it is on top of something else, on top of a protected block, outside its window, unfinished, or there is a clearly better slot. A day with nothing wrong stays as it is.

What moved shows in a notice at the bottom, with the reason (“was on top of Training”). Undo puts a block back and pins it there, so it does not move again.

Click a flexible block and choose Why here? to see how the planner weighed that slot. Re-optimise day (the sparkle at the top) plans a whole day again from scratch.

• Pin: a flexible block stays where it is.
• Protect: nothing is planned on top of it. If something no longer fits, you are shown that instead of this block giving way.
• Drag a flexible block to another time and Orondia asks whether to pin it there or make that time its new preference.

When something fits nowhere, the planner says what is in the way and offers fixes as buttons: shorten something, move it, swap two blocks, or widen the window. You choose.

Habits

A habit comes back every week: sport on Monday, Wednesday and Friday; lunch every day. You say once roughly when, and the planner puts a block in a slot that fits, every day again. Under Habits you change or stop them; a single day you simply edit in the calendar.

Google Calendar

Settings → Google → Connect Google. For each calendar you choose:

• Write: Orondia may add and change blocks in it. By default only your primary calendar.
• Plan it myself: off if something else already plans that calendar. The planner then leaves those blocks alone and plans around them.
• Remove: takes the calendar and its events out of Orondia; in Google everything stays. What Orondia had put in it moves to your default calendar. Add it back under Not in the app.

What you move or rename in Google comes back and is pinned. A calendar you delete in Google disappears here too. Sync now fetches everything straight away; otherwise it happens by itself, about every fifteen minutes.

Calendar links

Settings → Calendars → Add calendar, with a name and a link starting with https:// or webcal://. School, sports club, work: almost every calendar has one.

Can't make a match? Choose Skip this time; it stays that way on every refresh. Detach from calendar makes an event entirely yours.

Sharing

Settings → Sharing makes a link to pass on. For each link you choose how much someone sees:

• Friends see the titles of blocks that allow it.
• Acquaintances see only “Busy”.
• Public sees one merged busy block per stretch.

On each block you also choose who sees it, down to “Never share”. The stricter of the two always wins. Revoke makes a link unusable straight away.

Your whole calendar is a link for family or a partner: they subscribe in their calendar app and always see a week back to 2, 4, 8 or 12 weeks ahead, with only the calendars you tick. A calendar you add later stays out until you tick it; hidden calendars stay out.

Keyboard shortcuts

• Ctrl+K: search and commands.
• N: new block. Q: quick add.
• Ctrl+Z: undo. Delete: delete the selected block.
• Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V: copy, cut, paste onto the day you are looking at. Ctrl+D: duplicate.
• Drag a block above the hours to make it all-day; drag with the right mouse button to select several blocks.

Language, clock and notifications

Settings → General: language, 12- or 24-hour clock, first day of the week, time zone and your working day (what the busyness meter measures against). Notifications are switched on per device under Notifications.

Your account

Forgot your password? Use “Forgot your password?” on the sign-in page. Under Settings → Account you download everything we keep, sign out everywhere, or delete your account for good.