Creating events and reminders

Double-click a date in the grid to open the form for that day. You can also right-click the date (control-click) and choose New…, or press ⌘N (it opens the selected day, or today when nothing is selected).

Choose Event or Reminder at the top, fill in what you need, and click Add. Esc cancels.

Fields for an event

Field	What it does
Title	The name of the event. Suggestions come from the past three years (see below)
all-day	Removes the times and makes it an all-day event
starts / ends	The date and time. The end must come after the start. The calendar icon at the right end of the field opens a calendar to pick the day
repeat	None, every day, week, month or year, with an interval and an end (never, after a number of times, or on a date). See below
alerts	When to be notified beforehand (at the time of the event, or 5 minutes to 1 week before). Add alert adds another; Remove alert takes one away
location / URL / notes	Optional. The location offers places as you type (see below). A URL without a scheme gets https:// added. URLs and email addresses in the notes become links
Calendar	Click the colored dot next to the title to choose where it is saved. Calendars are grouped by account and sorted by name

Title suggestions

As you type a title, Calinsight offers up to six events from the past three years that start the same way. Use ↑↓ to choose one and press Return, or click it. Choosing one also fills in the calendar and the times of that event. You can also ignore the suggestions and keep typing.

Locations

As you type a location, Calinsight offers up to five places — shops, stations, addresses — from Apple Maps. Choose one with ↑↓ and Return, or click it, and the address and a small map appear under the field. Click the map to open the place in the Maps app. Text you type without choosing a place is saved as it is, without a map.

To find places, what you type in the location field is sent to Apple Maps. Nothing is sent when you only click into the field, and Calinsight does not use your current location (Privacy Policy).

Repeating events

Weekly lets you pick the days, monthly the dates, and yearly the months and dates. For monthly and yearly, switch to On the to repeat on “the third Friday of every month”, “the last weekday” or “the second Monday of October every year” — the same options as Custom in the macOS Calendar app.

The end is one of Never, After a number of times, or On Date.

If an event already has a rule more complex than these, Calinsight keeps that rule as it is when you change other fields and save.

Fields for a reminder

Field	What it does
Title	The name of the reminder. Suggestions come from your other reminders (see below)
due	Uncheck it for a reminder without a due date. Uncheck Time to keep just the date
remind me	Notifies you at the due time. Needs a due date with a time
priority	None, Low, Medium or High — shown in the list as !, !! or !!!
repeat	The same choices as an event. Needs a due date
URL / notes	Optional. URLs and email addresses in the notes become links
List	Click the colored dot next to the title

A reminder without a due date is saved, but while it is active it does not appear in the calendar or the list — open it in the Reminders app or find it with search. Once you complete it, it appears on the day you completed it.

Title suggestions for reminders come from your uncompleted reminders and those completed in the past three years, most recently used first. Choosing one also fills in the list, the priority and the due time.

Copying to another day

Select a row in the list and press ⌘C (or choose Copy from its right-click menu), then select a day in the grid and press ⌘V (or choose Paste from the day’s right-click menu). The same event or reminder appears on that day — handy for plans that don’t follow a repeat rule.

• The time, length, all-day setting, relative alerts (such as “15 minutes before”), location (with its map), URL, notes and priority are copied. The repeat rule is not
• A reminder without a due date gets that day as a date-only due date
• Items from calendars you can’t change, such as holidays or subscriptions, go into your default calendar
• To make another one on the same day, use Duplicate (⌘D)
• The pasted row is selected in the list

To change or delete what you created, see Editing and deleting.