Dates and daily notes

Time is a fundamental pillar of Capacities and working with dates is supported in many ways. The Calendar is the main way to interact with the time dimension in Capacities.

The Calendar

You can access the Calendar by clicking on "Calendar" at the top of the left sidebar. The Calendar comes with four different views: "Month", "Week", "Three days", and "Day".

The "Day" view incorporates all available information for that day, such as content created on that day or links to a certain time.

At the top, just below the date, you’ll see quick actions to create objects with their date set to this day. All objects with a date property are shown here.

Below is a section for the daily note of that day. You can close it if you don’t use daily notes.

The next section shows all references of that day, including objects with properties to that day and mentions of the day in your writing. If a time is specified on a date reference, it will be part of the timeline (more below).

On large screens, you also have access to the calendar sidebar on the right. This sidebar shows a small calendar of the current month, with small green dots indicating the presence of a daily note. You can click on any day to jump to that day. Below is a timeline summary of all objects with a time and a date property set to this day.

The timeline is a that visualizes everything that happened throughout the day. Currently, this includes the mentioning of a specific time in a link or a date property and the creation of new objects. You can set filters to only show the categories you’re interested in.

The "Month", "Week", and "Three days" views on the other hand simply show all daily notes of each time period.

You can watch a tour of this page here:

Times

Times can be edited manually or with natural language again. Try entering now or in 1 hour. You can also choose these options from the suggestions on the right. These update automatically to give you the most useful options.

If you don't want a time with the chosen date, toggle the 'all-day' option (or use Cmd/Ctrl + D).

Date Ranges

If you'd like start and end dates, toggle the 'date range' option (or use Cmd/Ctrl + R). This will open another date picker where you can choose the end date. If you use the calendar to select the dates, the text boxes will be updated automatically. Alternatively, you can type the dates in yourself. The start date is on the left, and the end date on the right.

Objects with a date range will show up in the calendar on any date that falls within that range.

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