yCal Concepts

Week View

The week view is intended for managing your events for a few consecutive days. I can be configured to show the next 5 or 7 days from today onwards, or to show a 5- or 7-day week starting on Monday. You switch between these modes by clicking in the lower right corner of the week view, or by selecting the appropriate entry under Set Week View Mode in the View menu.

Week selector

In the upper part of the week view you can select to show a so-called "week selector" — a little bar showing all 52 weeks of a year. You turn this on and off via the week view's context menu, using the Show week selector entry. When you hover over a week in this selector, you can also read the calendar week number, and clicking a week directly scrolls to the selected week.

Alternatively, you may also use and keystrokes, two-finger swipe gestures or clicking and draging the border of the week view to slide through the weeks.

Events

Notes and birthdays are depicted in the day's title line with little notes and candle icons. Hovering over those icons opens a quickview panel showing more details.

Handling of standard events is done pretty much the same way as you're used to from other calendaring apps: to create a new event, make sure you've selected the desired calendar in the left pane and then click and drag or double click in the week view. When the event is created, a configuration panel will open and allow you to set all the details such as a description, a location, or recurrence settings. The configuration panel consists of several sub-panels which you can unfold (and fold again) by clicking on their titles. In such a way you're only bothered with those controls that you actually need.

Keystrokes and selections

Clicking on an event selects this event for further manipulation (note that the selected event is rendered a little darker as before, and other events become a little more translucent). You may now drag the event to a new timeslot, right-click to bring up the context menu, or press the backspace key to delete it. In case you accidentally started dragging an event, don't let go the mouse button but press the ESC key (while still dragging) — this will cancel the drag operation and return the event to where it was.

Pressing the spacebar (or double-clicking the event) opens a quickview panel with all the event details — similar to the quickview in the Finder and the quickview feature in the year view. Alt-double-clicking an event directly brings you to the configuration panel where you can edit all details.

Note that if calendars are unchecked in the left pane, the corresponding events or markings will not show up in the year view!.