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How to use Whenary
Personal calendars, guest invites, encryption, offline edits, keyboard shortcuts, settings, and account limits. Security, privacy, and cryptography pages go further on the same behavior.
Start with your own calendar
Create an account and add events on a personal calendar. Friends, spaces, guest links, and Discover are optional.
Day, three-day, week, month, year, and agenda are views of the same events. A recurring event stays one event with a repeat rule.
Invite someone who does not have an account
Open the event and create a guest link. Send the link. The person opens it and responds. They do not need to register.
A revoked link, an expired link, or a cancelled event stops the response. Create a new link when you want them to try again.
Choose encryption per calendar
An ordinary calendar lets Whenary read event text so reminders, CalDAV, and external calendar sync can run. End-to-end encryption is a setting on that calendar. Save the recovery phrase from Settings before you rely on it. If you forget the password and you do not have the recovery phrase, that calendar stays unreadable. Whenary does not keep a copy of the key.
These server actions stop on an encrypted calendar, and the product tells you how to continue:
- Download from Settings → Data or the calendar editor, which builds the file on your device.
- Import through the app so events are encrypted on your device first.
- Remove this calendar's ICS subscription links before turning on end-to-end encryption.
- Disconnect external calendar sync before turning on end-to-end encryption.
Keep working when the network drops
The browser keeps calendars and events it has already loaded. A cached entry is kept for 30 days. The events cache holds 50 entries.
While you are offline, creating, editing, and deleting an event can wait on the device, and so can creating, editing, and deleting a list item. Other changes do not. Sign in once while online before you save offline. When the connection returns, those waiting changes sync.
- This action requires an internet connection.
- Sign in online before saving changes offline.
- Saved offline. Changes will sync when you are back online.
Free and Supporter limits
These caps are what the server applies. Personal Supporter is the paid tier. Host Pro is a separate plan for guest-link tools, described on the Supporter page.
| Limit | Free | Supporter |
|---|---|---|
| Uploads per minute | 60 | 120 |
| Emoji uploads per minute | 12 | 24 |
| Platform storage | 250 MiB | 5 GiB |
| Largest upload | 12 MiB | 20 MiB |
| Photos on one event | 8 | 120 |
| Dates in one bulk add | 60 | 120 |
| Lists in one space | 100 | 250 |
| Items on one list | 1000 | 5000 |
| Availability poll window (days) | 42 | 90 |
| Custom emoji tier | free | founder |
Use the keyboard
Press ? when you are not typing to open the same shortcut panel inside the app. These shortcuts stay off while focus is in an input, textarea, or content editor.
Global
Works anywhere in the app when you are not typing.
- Open command paletteCtrl / Command + K
- Open or close this panel?
- Close dialog, menu, or paletteEsc
Calendar navigation
On calendar and agenda screens.
- Previous / next period← + →
- Previous / next periodJ + K
- Previous / next periodPgUp + PgDn
- Previous / next periodMouse side buttonsBack + Forward
- Jump to todayHome
- Jump to todayT
- Previous / next periodMobileSwipe
Calendar views
- Day view1
- Day viewD
- 3 days view2
- Week view3
- Week viewW
- Work week viewShift + W
- Month view4
- Month viewM
- AgendaA
- Year view5
- Year viewY
- Play schedule as musicDay, 3-day, week, and work weekP
Calendar sets
Sidebar visibility presets numbered 1-9.
- Apply calendar setMatches the number shown on each set chipCtrl / Command + 1-9
- Restore previous visibilityAfter Display this only or applying a setCtrl / Command + 0
Events
- Sync nowReload events and decryptR
- New eventN
- New eventC
- Focus quick addCalendar and agendaQ
- Save eventWhile event dialog is openCtrl / Command + Enter
Change how the calendar looks
Open Settings, then Preferences.
Profile has a Birthday card. A geographic location in an event can offer Search on Maps, and an event that already has coordinates shows a map in the editor. Import calendar brings an existing calendar in. Trash holds deleted events, including an edited occurrence you removed from a repeating event. You can restore them from Settings until the retention period ends.
- Week starts on
- Default view
- Default event length
- Home tabWhere you land when opening the app.
- Show full navigationShow Activity, personal calendar hub, and all sections in the sidebar from day one.
- Advanced options when creating eventsOpen recurrence and collaboration options when creating events.
- Remember last viewed dateWhen off, reopening the app returns to today while keeping your preferred view (day, week, month, agenda, and so on).
- Mark past eventsLabel events that have already ended. Their colors stay as chosen.
- DensityComfortable gives calendar rows more room. Compact shortens day/week hours and tightens month and agenda spacing so more fits on screen.
- Calendar color intensityCustom event colors stay exactly as chosen.
- Event label size
- Reduce motionFreeze live countdowns and use simpler transitions.
- Truncate event titlesKeep titles on one line with an ellipsis. When off, titles wrap onto more lines in month, agenda, and lists, and timed day/week events wrap to fit the event block.
- Highlight short eventsAdd a subtle outline to events shorter than 30 minutes.
- Widget show titlesInclude event titles in home-screen widget previews when supported.
- Show weather chipDisplay a weather summary chip on supported calendar views.
- Show lunar calendarShow lunar phase or calendar hints on day cells when available.
- Show week numbersDisplay ISO week numbers in the month and week views.
- Work Week viewShow Work Week (Mon-Fri) in the view selector. Shift+W opens it from the calendar.
- Weekday label length
- Hide empty days in agendaOnly show days that have at least one event in the agenda view.
- Show event countdownDisplay days and hours until upcoming events in the agenda, day/week lists, and event details.
- Public holidaysShow national public holidays in all calendar views. When enabled, Whenary fetches holiday dates for your chosen country through our servers. The upstream provider receives only the country code and year, not your account identity.
- Country
- Preferred video call servicePre-selects this provider in the conference link quick-pick when creating events.
- Time format
- Timezone
- Who can see your birthday
- Search on Maps
- Bring events from Google, Apple, Outlook, or any .ics file.
- Deleted events are permanently removed after 30 days.
- Layer UCI academic quarters, holidays, finals weeks, and course data into your calendar.
Use it on a phone or a computer
The website works in a current browser. Android also has an installable app. The download page has the current file and its checksum.
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