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How to save an important date and track the countdown

What this is for

The Dates module stores important dates: birthdays, anniversaries, trips. Entries group into categories, show a countdown to the next occurrence, and when created they go into the planner as a single task.

How to get there

Pick Personal → Dates (/dates). Which entries are visible depends on Settings → Modules, Dashboard & Today.

Step by step

  1. Click New Date.
  2. Enter Name and pick Date. The form notes that a one-off task will be added to the planner for that day.
  3. Pick or type Category. The suggestions show categories in use, and a new name creates a new section on the page.
  4. If it is a day off work, turn on Day off work. It pauses work hours for that day; existing tasks stay in the planner.
  5. Turn Repeat every year on or off. Turn repeating off for one-off dates and for holidays that fall on a different day of the year.
  6. Optionally add Description and click Create.
  7. To edit an entry, click its card. Delete in the edit window removes the entry after confirmation.

Fields and options

Element Behavior
Name, Date Required fields; the date drives the countdown and the task in the planner.
Category Any name; entries group into sections with their own icon.
Day off work Pauses work hours on that day.
Repeat every year Yearly repetition of the date; turned off means a one-off entry.
Countdown Today, Tomorrow, in N days, and for past dates N days ago.
Filters Category, From, To and Clear; the N shown counter.
Section icon Editing the category icon after hovering over the section header.
Add Adding an entry directly in a given category.

Common mistakes / pitfalls

  • A date from the future is taken literally — an entry saved for next year will not be moved into the current year. Past dates with repeating turned on move to the next observance; February 29 falls on February 28 in non-leap years.
  • The one-off task in the planner is created only when the entry is created. A later date edit does not create a second copy and does not move the existing one — from that point on you manage the copy in the planner.
  • If saving the day-off or repeating setting fails, the app asks you to retry the save; retrying does not create a second entry.