Calendar

Connecting calendars

warfta shows the calendars of the accounts you have set up: directly for Google and Microsoft, via CalDAV for iCloud, Fastmail, mailbox.org and Posteo. The calendar is turned on per account — when setting it up with Connect Calendar or later in the settings under Accounts in the Calendar section. Google and Microsoft ask once more whether warfta may access your calendar.

Day, week and month

⌘2 switches to the calendar. At the top you switch between Day, Week and Month, with the keyboard via ⌃⌘1, ⌃⌘2 and ⌃⌘3. ⌘← and ⌘→ page through, ⌘T jumps to today, ⇧⌘T opens Go to Date…. The week number is shown next to the month.

The sidebar holds a small month calendar, your next events under Als Nächstes (“Up next”) and all calendars of your accounts. Clicking the checkmark hides or shows a calendar.

Viewing events

Clicking an event shows the details: time, location, calendar, organiser, attendees with their response, and the note. If the event has an online meeting, you open it there with Join. Mails linked to the event are listed there too.

Creating an event

In the calendar, ⌘N or the Event button creates a new event. In the form you enter:

• title, All-day, date and time,
• the calendar the event should go into,
• location and note, and whether you show as free or busy during that time,
• a repeat: Daily, Weekdays, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly or Custom — never ending, after a number of times or on a date,
• attendees via Personen einladen (“Invite people”), for Microsoft with Teams-Besprechung hinzufügen (“Add Teams meeting”), for Google with Google Meet hinzufügen (“Add Google Meet”).

Save creates the event; with attendees the button is called Save and Send and sends the invitations. If you change an event in a series, warfta asks whether it’s about This Event Only, All Future Events or All Events. If you delete an event with attendees, warfta cancels it for them.

Answering invitations

When you get an invitation by mail, a card with time, location, repeat and organiser appears above the text. With Accept, Maybe or Decline you answer directly; under More you can add a comment or answer without notifying the organiser. If the event overlaps with another, the card tells you. With Save as .ics… you save the invitation as a file.

The shortcuts for this in the Message menu: ⌃⌥⌘A accept, ⌃⌥⌘T maybe, ⌃⌥⌘D decline.

Event from a mail

Message → Event from Mail… (⌥⌘E) opens the event form with the subject as title and the first date warfta finds in the text. The mail stays linked to the event; you’ll find it again in its details. To connect a mail with an event that already exists, use Link to Task or Event … (⌥⌘L).

Reminders

warfta reminds you with a notification before events that have a time — 15 minutes before by default. Under General → Calendar → Remind Me you choose Never, 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes or one hour. All-day events don’t remind you. Reminders already scheduled arrive even when warfta isn’t running.