Calendar Bookmarks

A busy day view is usually a calendar problem: the shared family calendar, the team calendar, the subscribed sports schedule, all shouting at once. Calendar Bookmarks put colored tabs in the right margin of your Daily view so you can show and hide individual calendars with a tap, without ever opening settings.

The bookmark bar

Each bookmark is a small colored tab labeled with its calendar's name. Tap one to toggle that calendar on or off for the day you're viewing. Active calendars show in their full color; hidden ones fade back.

The bar is off for new installs. Turn on Calendar Bookmarks in Customize, or Show Bookmark bar in margin in the Calendar settings, to add it to your Daily view.

Swipe down on the tabs to collapse them into a compact deck when you want the margin quiet; swipe up to expand them again. When the deck is collapsed, the margin's hour ruler and time strip get the room instead. (If the bar is collapsed, the first tap expands it.) Tap the time strip to flip Daily into the Timeline.

Solo mode

Turn on Include Solo mode in Bookmark bar in the Calendar settings and a SOLO tab appears above your calendars. One tap shows only your own editable calendars and hides the shared and subscribed noise. Tap it again to bring everyone back.

To choose which calendars and reminder lists Solo keeps, pick Solo Mode in the Calendar settings and tick them. Your default calendar is pinned at the top, labeled "Default" with its account (as it is on every tab of that list). If you untick everything else, Solo keeps just that one.

While Solo is on, the calendars it hides stay in the bar, greyed out, and the SOLO tab shows even if you normally keep it hidden (Solo can also be switched on from Lens, or Plan Solo in the Mac menu bar). Tapping a greyed-out calendar ends Solo mode and brings everything back.

What's Next: one calendar at a glance

Long-press a bookmark (right-click on Mac) to open its What's Next popover: that calendar's events for the next six months, grouped by day with a countdown in each header ("Thursday July 17, in 4 days"). Each day is its own card: tap it to jump to that day. The list scrolls, and very busy calendars show their next 30 event days. Below the list, quick actions:

• Only shows just this calendar, hiding all others; All restores them
• Make Default sets it as the default calendar for new events
• The + button adds an event straight to this calendar
• The gear opens the full Calendar settings

Choosing your bookmarks

Pick which calendars appear as bookmarks in the Calendars configurator. The bar holds up to eight tabs, your default calendar first, so keep it to the calendars you toggle often.

Switching a calendar off entirely (the Active list in the same configurator) takes its bookmark down with it, since a tab for a calendar that shows nothing is just clutter. Switch the calendar back on and its bookmark returns. Unbookmarking by hand is remembered as your choice, so that one stays off the bar.

Related: Calendar & Reminders · Your Daily Page · Customize Your Daily