# Your calendar > Views, creating and moving events, booking a client yourself, sharing times to book, and what you can change from Forge. **Calendar** is the first screen in Forge. It shows your bookings beside the events from the calendars you have connected, along with the dates that matter to your work. ## Views Switch view from the top bar, or press a key: - **Day** (D) - **Week** (W). It opens on Monday to Friday. Use the stepper in the top bar to show 5, 6 or 7 days. - **Month** (M) - **Agenda** (A), a list of the next 14 days. **Today** jumps back to now (T), and the arrows move a page at a time. On a phone you get Day, Week and Agenda. ## What you see on it - **Bookings** people have made with you. - **Events** from your connected Google, Microsoft and CalDAV calendars. - **Dates from your work**: invoice due dates, proposal deadlines, lead follow-ups, poll deadlines, retainer billing days and instalments. The **Display** menu chooses which of those work dates show: **Bookings**, **Work**, **Money** and **Sales**. It is remembered in the browser you set it in. To hide a whole calendar, use the eye beside it in the **Calendars** list in the sidebar. ## Create an event 1. Choose **New event** in the top bar, press N, or right-click an empty time and choose **Create event**. 2. Type a **Title**, set **Starts** and **Ends**, and pick the **Calendar** it goes on. 3. Choose **Create event**. You can also type the whole thing in the title, such as "Call Tom 30min tomorrow 3pm". Forge reads the time out of it and shows **Read that as…** with **Use this** or **Keep as typed**. It never fills anything in without asking. This is worked out inside Forge. It is not sent to an AI. A new event needs a connected calendar that Forge is allowed to add to. If none can take events, Forge says so and points you to **Settings → Calendars**. ## Book a client yourself When you have agreed a time with someone directly, add it as a booking so they get the same emails as anyone who books online. 1. Right-click a time and choose **Create booking**, or open **New event** and switch to **Booking**. 2. Fill in **Who it's with**, **Their email** and **What you're doing**. 3. Choose **Add booking**. They get a confirmation email with links to cancel and reschedule. No payment is taken. Tick **Book outside my hours** to place it outside your working hours. A clash with something already in your diary is always refused. ## Move or change an event Drag an event to move it, or drag its edge to make it longer or shorter. Times snap to 15 minutes. Dragging a **booking** is a reschedule, so Forge asks before anything changes. Confirm it and your client is emailed the new time. Choose **Keep it where it was** and nothing moves. Right-click an event, or select it and use the panel, for the rest: **Colour**, **Edit…**, **Reply** (Yes, No, Maybe), **Join meeting**, **Email participants**, **Duplicate**, **Cut**, **Copy**, **Paste event here** and **Remove**. ## What you can and can't change from Forge - Events you organise on a calendar Forge can write to can be edited, moved and removed. - A calendar that is view-only where it lives stays view-only in Forge. - A meeting someone else organises can only be changed by them. On Google and Microsoft calendars you can still reply to it. - A booking is changed from the booking itself, with **Reschedule** or **Cancel booking**, so the client hears about it. - Events on Outlook calendars other than your default one can't be changed from Forge yet. ### Repeating events When you edit or remove a repeating event, Forge asks which ones you mean: - **This event** changes one occurrence. - **All events** changes the whole series. Today this works for Google calendars. - **This and following** is not available yet. Repeating events on a CalDAV calendar, such as iCloud, can only be changed in that calendar's own app. ## The Calendars list The sidebar lists every connected account and its calendars. From an entry's menu you can change its **Colour**, **Hide** or **Show** it, **Rename…** it, or **Make primary**. New events you create land on the primary calendar. Hiding a Google or Microsoft calendar only hides it from view. Its busy times still block bookings. Hiding a CalDAV calendar also takes it out of conflict checks. ## Share times to book Sometimes you want to offer a few specific times rather than your whole booking page. 1. Press S, or press ⌘K and choose **Share times to book**. 2. Drag across the times you are free. Each one becomes a **Hold** on your calendar. 3. In the **Share these times** panel, choose **Copy link**, or **Copy as text** to paste the times into a message. 4. Press Esc when you have finished choosing. Whoever opens the link picks one of your times and confirms with their name and email. That becomes a booking. Holds stay on your calendar, and block those times on your booking page, until someone books or you choose **Stop sharing**, which switches the link off and removes its holds. You need a booking link set in **Settings → Profile** before you can share times. ## A second timezone Pin a second timezone beside the hour labels with the timezone control at the top of the time column. Search for a city or a zone. It is hidden on a phone. ## Needs action The **Needs action** button at the bottom of the calendar counts what is waiting on you, most costly first. Press I to open it. It gathers: - overdue invoices - refunds to decide - unsigned agreements - proposals with no reply - leads going quiet - unsent drafts You can snooze an item for a day, three days or a week, or mark it done. **Settings → Needs action** sets what counts and after how many days. ## Keyboard Every shortcut is listed in [Keyboard shortcuts](https://docs.forge.page/keyboard-shortcuts), and in Forge itself: press ?. --- Source: https://docs.forge.page/calendar