Handy features

Calendar

Using it

Tap a date

Its entries show in the list under the calendar. Tap the chosen date again, or ⌃, to see the list bigger (there ‹ › step through the days and ⌄ lowers it).

Swipe the list up or down

Swipe up anywhere on the list to raise it; pull down from the top of the raised list to lower it.

Double-tap a date

Makes a new entry on it: from the next full hour today, from 9:00 on other days, an hour long.

Hold an entry

In the week, 3-week and month views it lifts and moves to another day, its times kept. For a repeating entry, only that occurrence moves.

Change times in the day view

Tap an entry to pick it, then drag the handles on its top and bottom to change its start and end; the column of times marks where they will be. Tap again to open it.

Move and switch views

Swipe sideways to move back and forward (on a computer, ‹ › too). Tap the month to pick one; Today brings you back. Views: day, week, 3 weeks, month and list.

Open an entry

It opens as a preview with Edit, Copy, Copy to several days and Delete at the top, and its history (who changed what, when) at the foot. ‹ steps back.

Copy, and copy to several days

Makes an entry like it on another day (records and repeats are not copied). Copy to several days makes it on every day you pick at once.

Share a calendar

Invite people from the calendar's settings › Sharing, each as admin, can edit or view only. Joining can need an admin's approval, and an invitation can be for one email address.

Asking for acknowledgement

When an admin turns it on, a new entry on a shared calendar asks the other members to acknowledge it; a mark on the bar and the entry show who has.

Choose calendars to show

Tick the calendars along the top to show them; + makes a new one.

Settings（Settings › Features › Calendar › Settings）

Entry bar colour

Colour bars by their label or by their calendar; entries with no label take the calendar's colour.

Entry bar height

Makes bars taller or lower in the week, 3-week and month views; days keep their height and what does not fit fades out.

Morning and afternoon halves

Entries starting at noon or later show on the right half of a day, those ending by noon on the left.

Show holidays

Shows Japan's public holidays.

Week starts on

Sunday or Monday.

Each calendar's settings

Name, colour and labels

Set the calendar's name and colour, and labels (coloured kinds) for its entries; labels can also be made while editing an entry.

Notifications per calendar

Turn its entry notifications, the daily summary, changes by others, join requests and acknowledgements on or off, for yourself only (viewers too).

Home

Using it

Arrange panels

Tap Edit to add, remove and reorder panels. Hold a panel to lift it and move it with your finger; half-width panels can sit in either column.

Text and image panels

Put your own words or pictures on Home. Choose the height in rows (one row is as tall as the New entry button) and align text left, centre or right; frame a picture right where it will sit.

Panels there are

Features, New entry and New memo buttons, today as a day, list, week or month, Next entry, pinned memos, entry memos, text and images. Tap a panel to open its screen.

Settings（Settings › Features › Home › Settings）

Parts shown

Choose and order panels, as Edit on Home does.

Memos

Using it

Kinds of memo

Text, checklist and formatted (headings, bold, tables …). A new memo starts as the kind you made last.

Memos on entries

Put memos on an entry; on a shared calendar its members see them too.

Hold a memo

Opens a menu to pin, hide or delete it. Pinned memos stay at the top and are never hidden by themselves.

Select several

Tap Select to pin, hide or delete several memos at once.

Hidden memos

See them with Show hidden memos in the list.

Settings（Settings › Features › Memos › Settings）

Entry memos (when to hide)

Hide an entry's memos from the list when the entry ends, when its day ends, a week after, or never.

Keep memos with unticked items

Keeps them shown after the entry ends while items are still unticked.

Hide when all ticked

Hides a checklist once every item is ticked, memos without an entry too.

Kinds of memo used

The kinds you can choose when writing; at least one.

Notifications

Using it

The list

Notifications that came, newest first, and under them those still to come. Tap one to open its entry or screen.

Per entry

In an entry's editor, choose how many minutes, hours or days before it to be told.

Notifications on an iPhone

In the iPhone app, turn on "Push notifications on this device" in the notification settings and allow notifications. In the browser, add Limely to the Home Screen from Safari's Share button, open it from there and turn notifications on (iOS 16.4 or later).

Settings（Settings › Features › Notifications › Settings）

Push to this device

Whether this device gets notifications; Send a test checks they arrive.

Daily summary

One notification a day, at the time you choose, with the day's entries of the calendars you choose; none on days without entries.

Widgets (iPhone app)

Adding one

Hold an empty spot on the Home Screen, tap Edit › Add Widget (+ at the top left on iOS 17) and choose Limely.

Entries

Today and what comes next, small, medium and large, and on the Lock Screen (rectangular and inline).

Calendars (day, week, 3 weeks, month)

Your entries as the calendar shows them: the day along its hours (small, medium, large), the week and three weeks from this one (medium, large), and this month (small, medium, large). With Limely Plus, the week and three weeks can have a list of coming entries beside them.

Tapping a calendar widget

On medium and large ones, + at the top right makes a new entry for today. Tap a date, an entry or a day of the list to open that day's list; anywhere else opens the calendar. A small day widget opens the day's list, a small month the calendar.

Changing a widget

Hold it and choose Edit Widget. Choosing which calendars it shows (all of them otherwise) and its colours and look come with Limely Plus.

Limely Plus widgets

Your Home text and image panels and a pinned memo can be widgets too. Tap an item of a memo's checklist to tick it, or untick it, without opening the app.

Everywhere

‹ goes back

‹ takes you back to the screen you came from, scrolled where you left it.

Choosing features

Add features with + in Settings › Features. Remove one by sliding its row aside and tapping −, or from the foot of its settings; its data stays.

Menu bar

Settings › Menu bar chooses the features along the bottom and their order, or shows the ones used last.

Appearance

Settings › Appearance: theme (device, light, dark), accent colour (ten, or any), language and your icon.

Tutorials again

In Settings › Features, tap a feature's ⓘ and See the tutorial.