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Use your calendar

Add events, repeat or copy them, search them, see what is next in your Inbox, switch between week and month, show a second time zone, and keep your calendar on your phone.

Your calendar lives next to your mail. Choose Calendar in the left menu to open it. Everything on it is private to you.

Add an event

  1. Choose New event, or click an empty time slot in the week view.
  2. Type a title and check the date, start and end time.
  3. Turn on All day for birthdays, trips and days off. Then choose the first and last day.
  4. Add a location or notes if you want, then choose Save.

Repeat an event

Open the event and use the Repeat menu. Choose Every day, Every weekday (Monday to Friday), Every week, Every month or Every year. Choose Custom to repeat every 2 weeks, pick the days of the week, or stop on a date or after a number of times. A line under the menu says it in words, for example Every week on Tuesday, until 30 Nov.

Repeating events show a small repeat icon in the week and month views.

Add an event from an email

When an email carries an invitation, a card above the message shows the event with an Add to calendar button. uMail never sends a reply to the organizer, so use your usual way to say yes or no. If the event is already in your calendar, the card says so. If the organizer cancels it, the card says This event was cancelled and lets you remove it.

For any other email, choose the calendar icon in the toolbar above the message, or press A. A new event opens with the subject as the title, the sender and the start of the email in the notes, and a date and time picked from the text, such as Thursday, 10:00 or 30 October at 2 pm. Check the time, then choose Save.

Change or delete an event

Click an event to open it. Change what you need and choose Save. To remove it, choose Delete, then confirm. An event can be up to 30 days long.

For an event that repeats, uMail asks which events you mean. Choose This event to change or delete only the one you opened. Choose All events to change or delete the whole series. If you change the time or the repeat for all events, changes you made to single events are reset. An invitation from an email is added as one event only, even if it repeats.

Copy or download an event

Open an event and choose Duplicate to start a new event with the same title, time, place and notes. Change what you need, then choose Save. If you duplicate one event of a repeating series, the copy does not repeat. Choose Download .ics to save the event as a file for another calendar app. You can also choose the three dots beside an event, or right click it, to find the same two actions. Press Escape to close the menu.

Search your events

Type in Search events at the top of the calendar, or press / to jump there. uMail looks at titles, places and notes, from a year ago to a year ahead. Use whole words, for example budget, not bud. The results replace the week or month. A repeating event shows once, at its next date. Choose a result to open it on its day. Press Escape or clear the box to go back to the calendar.

See what is coming up from your Inbox

At the top of your Inbox, a short strip shows your next events, up to the end of tomorrow, for example Now: Team meeting until 11:00 am or In 25 min: Interview. Choose one to open it in the calendar. On a phone it shows the next event only. If nothing is coming up, the strip is not shown. Choose the X to hide it until tomorrow.

Move around

  • Week and Month switch the view. On a phone the week shows as a list of days.
  • Today brings you back to the current week. The arrows go to the previous or next week or month.
  • An orange line in the week view shows the current time.
  • In the month view, choose a date number to open that week.

All times are in Addis Ababa time.

Choose your week

Open Settings, then Calendar. Under First day of the week, choose Monday, Sunday or Saturday. Turn off Show weekends to hide Saturday and Sunday in the week and month views. If an event falls on a hidden weekend day, a note above the calendar says so. Choose it to show the weekend for now.

Show a second time zone

Planning a call with people far away? Open Settings, then Calendar, and choose a zone under Show a second time zone. The week view adds a second column of hours, labelled with the zone, for example GMT+1 London. On a phone, the time in that zone shows in small type beside each event. Choose None to turn it off.

Use it on your phone or computer

If your calendar offers sync, you will see Calendar sync in Settings. It shows an address you can add to the calendar app on your iPhone, Android phone or Thunderbird, with your uMail email and password, or with an app password for that device. Events then stay the same everywhere. To use Google Calendar, Outlook, Cal.com or others with uMail, read Connect other calendars.