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Tags

Calendars sort your events by which account they live in. Tags let you label them by what they are: #focus, #dentist, #standup, #travel. A tag shows up as a small colored chip on the event, so you can spot a kind of event at a glance across your week.

Adding tags​

You can add a tag two ways:

  • In the event form. Type a name into the tag field and confirm it, or pick one from the suggestions. Suggestions are ranked by how often and how recently you've used each tag, so the ones you reach for most sit first.
  • In Quick Add. Type # in front of a word anywhere in your phrase, like Lunch with Sam #social, and KashCal peels the #social off as a tag while the rest becomes the event. You can add several, and a tags-only entry like #work is fine too.

The title field also offers an inline # autocomplete: start typing # in the title and KashCal suggests your existing tags.

Where tags show up​

Once an event has tags, its chips appear in the day, week, and agenda views, and in the event's quick view when you tap it open. Open the full event and the tags are listed there as well.

If you'd rather the tag row sit above your notes than below, use the row's ⋮ menu in the form to move it. KashCal remembers your choice.

How tags are matched and stored​

  • Case-insensitive, first-casing wins. Work and work are the same tag. Whichever spelling you used first is the one KashCal keeps and shows, so your tag list doesn't fracture into near-duplicates.
  • Up to 64 characters, with no commas (commas are reserved by the calendar format tags are stored in).
  • Stored as standard calendar categories. Tags are saved as the event's CATEGORIES, part of the iCalendar standard, which is why they travel with the event when it syncs.

What tags don't do (yet)​

Tags currently work on the events KashCal syncs itself: your iCloud and other CalDAV calendars, plus local calendars. Events that come from the device's own calendars (the Google, Samsung, or Exchange accounts Android manages, see Device calendars) are tag-free for now, so KashCal hides the tag row on those events rather than letting a tag you add quietly disappear.

This is the first release of tags. More places and more ways to use them are on the way.