Calendar & Reminders
Seeing all your calendars in Finalist, managing Apple Reminders, and planning ahead on the grid.
Finalist unifies all your commitments in one place: your calendars and your Apple Reminders appear right alongside your tasks, and stay in sync with their home apps.
Calendars in Finalist
All your calendars are woven into your daily view: work meetings, personal appointments, shared and subscribed calendars. Toggle which calendars you see in the Calendars configurator under the app menu. Events stay in your Calendar app too, so you can manage them from either side.
Duplicating an event
Touch and hold an event (right-click on Mac) and choose Duplicate, then pick one of your calendars. Finalist creates a copy of the event there — handy for putting a shared or subscribed event onto a calendar you own. Any of your writeable calendars can be the destination, even when the original event is read-only.
One event, many calendars
When the same event appears in more than one calendar — a duplicated event, or a meeting that reaches you through several subscriptions — Finalist shows it once, with a small ×2 marker noting how many copies it stands in for.
Event icons
Events wear a small icon matched from words in their title: "Dentist" gets a medical cross, "Flight to Lisbon" gets a plane. To teach Finalist your own words, open Settings → Calendar & Events → Custom event icons. Type a word or phrase in any language, pick an icon, and every event whose title contains that word shows it. Your words always win over the built-in ones, and they sync with iCloud to all your devices. The same screen lists every built-in trigger word, so you can see what's already covered. Prefer a fully custom set? Turn off Match built-in words there and only your own words will match.
Planning ahead
The planner weaves your calendars into a timeline to accompany your weekly or monthly view. By default it shows all-day events, so it's easy to spot vacations and conferences while planning ahead. From the same view you can add tasks directly to your calendar.
It gets really powerful when you select one or more Lists to show on your planning grid: drag and drop your reminders onto days to manage ongoing projects.
Reminders
Reminders live in Apple's Reminders app and in Finalist at the same time. Add them where it's convenient, manage them anywhere, and they'll alert on all your devices, even ones without Finalist installed. You can also add whole Reminder lists to the Lists tab; see Lists & Tags.
Related: Timeline & Time Blocking · Lists & Tags · Sync & Devices