The Calendar

The month as a page of its own: every day's note, the sigils you kept, the cards you graded and the pages you read, laid out where you can see a month at a glance.

There is a small month in the sidebar, under the tree — that one is a date picker, and it is covered with the rest of the periodic notes. This page is the other thing a calendar is for: looking back. It draws the month full width, gives each day a cell with room to write in, and fills those cells with what the day actually held.

Open it from the calendar leaf in the top bar, beside the seal (Sigils) and the ring (Orbits) — on a phone it is a row in the ⋯ menu — or type Open the Calendar in the command palette (Ctrl/Cmd P). It opens as a tab in the pane you are in, like the graph or the Sigils page, so you can keep a note open beside it. Its address is /calendar, which a bookmark can hold.

What a day's cell says

A cell carries the day's number and, under it, what that day held:

• A dot beside the number when the day has a daily note. (A dot rather than a line: your daily note is named after its own date, and a cell printing 2026-09-15 under a 15 has spent a line saying nothing.)
• Each sigil that logged something that day, by name.
• The cards you graded in Orbits that day — 3 cards — read from this device's own log.
• Each book or work you read, from the sittings in its tracker, including a book you only moved forward on its bar, whose sitting Astrolabe estimates. Four books moved on one day are four lines; a book the day knows only from its bar is in muted ink.
• The steps a course is on course to ask of a day ahead, faint and in italic. They are projected, not recorded: nothing in the note is dated, and if you answer a step late every one after it moves with it, here as on the card. A course's past days name the steps you actually did rather than the course itself.

Four lines fit; a busier day says +2 more under them and the day pane has the rest. Today is ringed. Days from the months either side fill out the first and last rows, in a quieter ink, and are there to be clicked like any other.

Under the month, when a course has anything left in it, the months ahead as unit bands — Japanese · Genki I — lesson 3 · 27 Oct – 9 Nov — so a curriculum can be read in weeks rather than cell by cell. The bands and the faint cells come out of the same projection and cannot disagree.

The day pane

Click a day — or walk to it with the arrow keys — and the pane beside the month (under it on a narrow pane or a phone) opens on that day in full:

• Open the day's note, or Create the day's note when there is none. Creating goes through the same door as Ctrl/Cmd Alt D, so the note is made in your daily folder, with its template, exactly as it would be from the palette. Nothing is written until you press that button — a calendar that made a file every time you glanced at a day would fill your vault with empty days. (Double-clicking a cell is the same door, for when you would rather not travel.)
• Sigils — each one that logged that day, with how much of the day it asked for was done (2 of 2) coloured the way the card colours it, and the line of prose you wrote in the log.
• Orbits — the decks you studied, how many cards and how many you kept. From this device's own log; grades given on another device are not counted here.
• Reading — the pages and the time from each tracker's sittings. A time with ~ before it was estimated from a move of the progress bar, and the line under it says whether from your own pace or from the defaults.

Every name in the pane is a door to the note it came from.

Moving around

‹ and › turn the month, Today comes back to this one, and the month is drawn in the site's calendar: a Gregorian month on a Gregorian instance, a Hijri (Umm al-Qura) month on a Hijri one, and on an instance that prints both dates the leading calendar's month with the other calendar's day number small beside each day. The week starts on the site language's first day — Monday in English, Saturday in Arabic.

The month is one tab stop. Inside it:

Walking off the edge of a month turns the page and keeps your place. Tab leaves the month for the day pane, where every door is an ordinary button.

Nothing is stored

The page keeps no ledger of its own. Every cell is read, each time you open it, from what your vault and your device already hold: the notes in your daily folder, the log fences inside your sigil notes, the sessions: lines inside your trackers, and the Orbits log in this browser. Delete a line from a note and the day forgets it; write one by hand and the day remembers. The note is the state, here as everywhere else.

Until 3.17 a small month sat at the top of the Sigils page. It is here now, where it has room: that page is a morning checklist, and a month squeezed into its corner could say which days had a note and nothing else about them.

The same days, read another way

The Timeline is every day the vault holds as one list, newest first, with the notes written on each day as well — the The Timeline button in the page's header opens it. And Today is the one day in front of you, with what it asks for.