Griply's calendar is a time-blocked view of your day where your tasks, habits, focus blocks, and the meetings from your connected Google or Outlook calendar all sit on the same grid. Instead of keeping a to-do list in one app and a calendar in another, you plan against the time you actually have.

Think of it as the other half of your task list. The list tells you what you intend to do; the calendar tells you whether it fits.

The calendar appears in three places: the right-hand column on Today, the Calendar view on Upcoming, and the Calendar tab on iOS.

Where the Calendar Appears

On iOS, Today is a list and does not have a calendar column. The Calendar tab is where the time-blocked view lives.

Note: The Today calendar column is free. The Upcoming calendar view is a premium feature. On a free plan you plan your day on Today, and premium adds the multi-day and week planning surface.

What Appears on the Calendar

• Tasks with a start time, as a block of the matching length. A task with no duration gets a 30-minute block.

• Tasks with a planned date but no start time, in the all-day row above the hourly grid.

• Habits scheduled for that day, following the same rule: a time block if the habit has a start time, the all-day row if not.

• Calendar events from your connected Google or Outlook calendars. See Calendar Events.

• Focus blocks, the named blocks reserved for a whole goal, life area, Smart List, or tag. See Focus Blocks.

• Goal deadlines, in the all-day row with a flag icon on the deadline date.

When more than four all-day items land on one day, the row shows the first four and a (+X more) indicator. Completed items sink to the bottom of the all-day row, so the things you still have to do stay visible rather than being hidden behind that indicator.

Planning by Dragging a Time Slot

Dragging across an empty span is how you put something on the calendar. The span you drag sets the day, start time, and duration, so you never type them in.

Drag across empty time and a create menu opens at that span with five options:

On Desktop, hold Alt while dragging to skip the menu and go straight to the create-task dialog, or press 1 to 5 while the menu is open to pick that option. On iOS, press and hold before dragging, and the menu always appears.

New calendar event needs a connected calendar and a premium plan.

Adjusting What's Already There

Once something is on the calendar you work with it directly:

• Drag a block to a different time or day to reschedule it.

• Drag the edge of a block to change its duration.

• Click the inline checkbox on a task or habit block to complete it without opening the detail sheet.

• Click a focus block to open the detail screen of whatever it points at.

Calendar events and Griply items that overlap are stacked side by side, so a conflict is visible rather than hidden.

Planning From the Task Panel

The Upcoming calendar view on Desktop has a task panel down the right-hand side that you drag from. Pick its source from the dropdown at the top, or press S:

• Inbox

• All Tasks

• Any Smart List

• Any tag

• Habits

Drag a task from the panel onto a time slot and Griply sets its planned date to that day, its start time to that hour, and its duration to 30 minutes if it didn't have one.

Switching the panel to a Smart List loads that list's saved filter, sort, and grouping, so the panel immediately shows what that list is for.

The Habits source lists your habits so you can drag one onto a day, which is the quickest way to plan a habit onto a specific slot.

Rescheduling Overdue Work

Anything overdue is carried onto Today automatically. On Desktop you can drag an overdue task straight from the Overdue section into the calendar column, and Griply sets its planned date to today and its start time to the hour you dropped it on.

You can also drop overdue tasks onto the All Day, Morning, Afternoon, or Evening sections of the list, which appear when you group Today by time of day. See Filters.

Keeping External Events Current

Events from Google and Outlook are pulled in every 5 minutes. When you don't want to wait, press the refresh button at the top right of the calendar to pull them in straight away.

If a meeting still doesn't appear after a refresh, check that its calendar is switched on for your account in Settings → Calendar. See Calendar Integration.

Sending Your Tasks the Other Way

Everything above is about Griply's own calendar. You can also push your tasks, habits, and focus blocks out to your real Google or Outlook calendar as time blocks, so your plan shows up next to your meetings for anyone sharing that calendar. That runs both ways: move a block in Google and Griply follows.

That's a premium feature and it's set up separately. See Calendar Integration.

Best Practices

• Block the hard things first → Put your two or three highest-stakes tasks on the calendar before the day fills with everything else.

• Check the header total on Today → It sums the duration of everything on the screen, so you can see an over-booked day before you live it.

• Use focus blocks for open-ended work → Reserve the hour for a goal and pick the task once you're in it, rather than deciding up front.