How to use Calandora on the website and in the iPhone and Android app. Topics marked App only or Website only apply to just one of them.
Calandora keeps your calendar, notes and tasks together, and in sync between the iPhone and Android app and the website at calandora.com.
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Our apps share one sign-in, so your email may already have an account from another CJ Designs app. You can use that account in Calandora: sign in with the same password.
If you don't know that password, use Forgot password? to set one.
There's no way to change your password while signed in. Use Forgot password? instead.
The bar at the bottom has Today, Calendar, New, Notes and Tasks. New lets you quickly create an event, note or task from anywhere.
Search and Settings are on the Today tab: use the magnifier and gear icons at the top, or the tiles on the page. Sign out from the icon at the top of the Today tab.
The menu on the left (or along the top on a small screen) has Today, Calendar, Notes, Tasks, Favourites, Search, Settings, Account and Help. Sign out is at the top right.
Today lists the tasks due today and has a + New menu for creating an event, note or task.
The app works without a connection. Anything you add or change is saved on your phone and synced as soon as you're back online.
If changes are waiting to sync, a bar appears above every tab, such as "2 changes pending sync". Tap it to open Sync status, where Sync now sends them straight away.
Tip: If an item couldn't sync, Sync status lists it with Retry and Discard.
Choose Month, Week, Day or Agenda at the top of the Calendar tab. Agenda lists the next 30 days.
Use the arrows at the top to go back or forward, and the calendar icon to jump to today. In Month view you can also swipe left and right. In Week view, tap a day's heading to open it in Day view.
Use the month, week, day and list buttons above the calendar. List shows the events for one week.
Use the arrows and today to move around, or pick a date in the small month calendar in the sidebar.
Timed events can use a different Time zone, for example a meeting in another country.
Tip: Attachments and linked items can be added once the event has been saved: open it again to add them.
App: turn on Repeat, then choose Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly or Weekdays (Mon–Fri). You can set "every N", pick days of the week, and choose when it Ends: never, after a number of times, or on a date.
Website: tick Repeats in the Recurrence section and set how often, which days, and when it ends.
On the website the repeat pattern can only be set when you create the event. To change it later, use the app and save with Entire series.
When you save a change to a repeating event, you're asked what to change: This event, This and future events, or the whole series (Entire series in the app, All events in the series on the website).
When you delete one, you can delete This event only, or the whole series.
Drag an event to a new day or time, or drag its bottom edge to change how long it lasts. For a repeating event you're asked which occurrences to move.
Add as many reminders as you like to an event: at the time of the event, or a set time before it. You can also choose a custom date and time.
The website also offers 2 hours, 2 days and 1 week before. Reminders appear as notifications on your phone.
Tip: A reminder shows the event's title on your lock screen.
Deleting a calendar also deletes every event on it. It can't be undone.
In the sidebar under My calendars: + New creates a calendar with a name and colour, the checkbox shows or hides a calendar's events, and each calendar has Export and Delete buttons.
Deleting a calendar also deletes every event on it. It can't be undone. Calendars can be renamed or recoloured in the app.
Export: in the app, use the Calendar tab's three-dot menu or Settings. On the website, use the calendar sidebar or Settings. You can export one calendar or all of them as a standard .ics file.
Import: choose Import calendar (.ics), pick the file and choose which calendar to add the events to. You see a summary, including anything that can't be imported, before you confirm.
Tip: Most calendar apps, including Google Calendar and Outlook, can export an .ics file.
Tasks with a due date appear on the calendar alongside your events.
App: tap a task to tick it off, and tap again to undo. Website: click a task to mark it complete. To reopen it, go to Tasks.
App: tap + on the Notes tab, or New then Note. Website: click + New note or press N on the Notes page.
Notes save automatically as you type. The status shows Saving… and then Saved.
Use the toolbar for headings, bold, italic, underline, bulleted and numbered lists, checklists and links, with undo and redo. The website also has strikethrough.
Put a note in a folder, and tag it, from the note itself. Create, rename and delete folders and tags from the Notes screen: the Folders and Tags icons in the app, or the sidebar on the website.
Deleting a folder doesn't delete its notes. They become unfiled.
In a note, use the star to add it to favourites, the pin to keep it at the top of the list, and archive to tuck it away without deleting it.
In the app, find archived notes with the Archived filter on the Notes tab. The website doesn't show archived notes, so unarchive them in the app.
Search your notes with the search box on the Notes screen. Filter by favourites, folder or tag, and use Sort to order by last updated, created or title. Pinned notes always stay at the top.
Deleted notes go to Trash, where you can Restore them. In the app, tap the Trash icon at the top of the Notes tab. On the website, it's in the Notes sidebar.
This appears if the same note was changed on two devices before they synced. Nothing is lost: tap View / recover your version to see both versions, then Keep current version or Restore this version.
App: tap + on the Tasks tab, or New then Task. Website: click + New task, use + New on Today, or press N on the Tasks page.
A task can have a description, a list, a due date and time, a start date, a priority (None, Low, Medium or High), tags, a reminder and a repeat.
The reminder choices depend on the due date. With no due date, you can pick a custom date and time. With a due date only, you can also choose On due date (9:00am). With a due date and time, you can choose the due time or a set time before it.
When you complete a repeating task, it moves on to its next due date rather than creating a new copy.
Tick the checkbox next to a task. Completed tasks are listed under Completed.
Use Today, Upcoming, Overdue, No date, Completed, Favourites and all tasks to narrow the list, or filter by list or tag.
Group tasks into lists, such as Work and Home. Create, rename and delete lists from the Task lists icon in the app, or the Tasks sidebar on the website. Deleting a list moves its tasks to another list.
Deleted tasks go to Trash, where you can Restore them. In the app, tap the Trash icon at the top of the Tasks tab. On the website, it's in the Tasks sidebar.
Open a saved event, note or task and use Add related in its Related section to link it to something else. For example, link meeting notes to the meeting. Remove a link with Unlink.
Open a saved event, note or task and use Add file in its Attachments section. Tap an attachment to open it.
Files can be up to 50 MB: images, PDFs, Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, and text or CSV files.
Search looks through event titles, descriptions and locations, note titles and text, and task titles and descriptions.
App: tap the magnifier on the Today tab. Tapping a result opens it. Website: open Search, or press / or Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on a Mac).
Notes and tasks can be starred as favourites. In the app, use the Favourites filter on the Notes and Tasks tabs. The website also has a Favourites page showing both together.
Choose System, Light or Dark. In the app, go to Settings and tap Theme. On the website, go to Settings and use Appearance. Your choice applies on all your devices.
Settings shows whether reminders are allowed, with Open notification settings to change it.
Default reminder is pre-selected whenever you create a new event or task.
On Android, allow Alarms & reminders when asked so reminders arrive at the exact time.
In Settings, under Data, you can export your calendars (.ics), your notes, your tasks, or a full backup of everything, including attachments. Files are saved wherever you choose. We never receive a copy.
Choose Restore full backup in Settings and pick a backup file. You see what it contains before anything is added.
Restoring adds everything from the backup into your account. It never overwrites or deletes what's already there.
App: tap the sign-out icon at the top of the Today tab. If some changes haven't synced yet, you're warned first. Signing out removes your data from that phone. It stays safe in your account.
Website: click Sign out at the top right.
App: Settings, then Account, then Delete account. Website: Account, then Delete account…, and type DELETE to confirm.
This permanently deletes your account and everything in it, including attachments. It can't be undone, so export a backup first if you want to keep anything.
If you use the same email in another CJ Designs app, deleting your account also removes it, and your data, from those apps. To leave only Calandora, email support@cjdesigns.app.
On the website, press ? at any time, or click the ? button in the bottom corner, to see these shortcuts.
/ or Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on a Mac): search.
N: new event, note or task, on the Calendar, Notes and Tasks pages.
?: show the shortcuts list.
Esc: close the open window.
Tip: Shortcuts don't work while you're typing in a box or have a window open.
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