Schedule puts your tasks and your calendar on one page. This guide covers planning with it: finding a time for each task, and keeping the work for a meeting beside it. For connecting calendars and creating events, see Schedule and calendar events.
Give a task a time
On iPad and Mac, in Day or Week, tasks due that day without a time wait in Any time at the top. Drag one onto an hour to give it that time. On a Mac it lands on the nearest quarter hour, and the hours show where it will go before you let go.
- Drag a task or event to another time to move it.
- In Month, drag a task onto another day to change its date.
- On a Mac, press Esc while dragging to put it back where it was.
On iPhone, Schedule is one page: the month folds into a strip of seven days above your agenda, and you swipe the strip a day at a time. There is no hour grid, so drag a task onto a day in the strip to give it that date, and type a time in the task itself if it needs one.
Moving an event changes it in your calendar, so it moves in Apple Calendar too.
Tasks for This Event
Some tasks belong to a meeting: an agenda to write, notes to read, a call to follow up. Open the event, and under Tasks for This Event type a New task for this event and add it.
The tasks follow the event if it moves. For a repeating event, they belong to that one occurrence. To unlink a task, choose Remove from This Event; the task itself stays in Orbit.
The island in Schedule
On a Mac, the Progress Island adds what the view is about. In Day it lists the day’s events with sunrise, sunset and what is next; in Week it counts the week. In Month it folds to one line so the grid keeps its height. Click it, or press ⌥⌘I, to open or fold it.
Schedule widgets
Add any of these from the widget gallery:
- Up Next: what is next on your calendar, and how soon.
- Day: today’s events and tasks together. Tick tasks off in place.
- Hours: your day hour by hour, as Day shows it.
- Week: the seven days ahead.
- Month: the month, with a dot for each day’s plans and what is coming up.
Tap a widget to open Schedule.
Today’s date on the Dock
On a Mac, Orbit’s Dock icon shows today’s date while it runs. Turn it off under Settings ▸ Menu Bar & Dock ▸ Show Today’s Date on the Icon.
Keyboard shortcuts on Mac
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Show or hide the small month and Upcoming | ⌥⌘S |
| Open or fold the island | ⌥⌘I |
| Show more or fewer weeks in Month | ⌘= ⌘- |
| Cancel a drag | Esc |