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Calendar

The year, day by day — where bookings are painted rather than typed.

Painting

One month of the Bookings calendar — painted days wearing their status colours, weekends quiet, today ringed

Sweep across free days and choose what they become — a booking, a hold, an enquiry, or days off. A sweep over already-booked days queues behind them as a second hold. Click a booked day for its card — the day’s value, edit days, book on top, release. Right-drag erases days off, pencilled days and ghost holds; shift-click two days to fill the working days between; drag a card by its title to move the whole booking.

Painting the past is fine — recording the week you took off last month is exactly what back-fill is for. Past booked days answer differently: clicking one opens its card rather than sweeping it into something new.

What the colours say

Booked days wear their project’s status colour — the same pigments as everywhere else. Days off are one amber, wherever they appear. Half days split diagonally. Tax deadlines dot the day they fall on. This is the calendar’s own legend:

holds / pencilled enquiry confirmed ongoing complete invoiced paid days off half days tax due

In the app it’s live from your own colour scheme — hover a kind and the rest of the year fades away — and a Heatmap toggle swaps the year to intensity: where the work actually piled up.

Days off, and what they deduct

A day off pulls itself out of every live booking that crosses it — book three weeks, paint two days off, and the fee is 13 days without touching the project. Two boundaries keep that honest: a Paid project’s fee is settled and ignores later days off, and when a day you’re painting off is already on a sent invoice, the card says so before you commit. A day off recorded on the booking itself (an unpainted weekday inside its span) belongs to that booking alone — another job can still work that day.

Around the grid

The Availability card names your next free stretch — the answer to “when can you fit us in”. A Vacations panel lists entries (each opens the vacation card). And the calendar follows you everywhere: the topbar’s calendar button opens a compact rail beside whatever page you’re on, with the same painting gestures intact.

The calendar rail — the year compacted to a column beside another page, bookings in their pipeline colours, days off in amber

Booked days and time off can mirror outward — an .ics feed lives beside your data file, and Google Calendar can carry the same events (Settings → Connections).