1 · Calendar access
Let NextUp read your calendars.
Open the app and tap Allow calendar access. Every calendar already on your phone shows up; nothing is uploaded.
The guide
How to use NextUp
Everything NextUp can do, and how to set it up: the app's two tabs, every widget setting, what each tap on a widget does, and the calendar that opens over your home screen. Six guides, each with pictures you can tap.
The six guides
In the order the app shows itself: the app first, then the widgets on your home screen.
1 · In the app
Dashboard
The app's home: your widgets, your calendars and the app's own options.
- Add, place and rename widgets
- Choose where a tap on an event opens
- Connect Google Tasks
- Language, theme and one-handed reach
Notifications
Reminders driven by rules you set once, instead of one per event.
- How rules are matched, top to bottom
- Build a rule step by step
- Snooze, Join and the task digest
- Recipes, and what to check when nothing rings
Widget settings
What a widget shows: its calendars, tasks, filters and layout.
- The settings every widget shares
- Agenda, NextUp, Week and Month, one by one
- Which setting appears on which widget
- Refresh: Smart or on an interval
Style settings
How a widget looks: presets, the panel, text and colours.
- The sixteen presets and their finish
- Background, corners, depth and texture
- Text sizes and Compact view
- A colour for every calendar
Widgets
What every tap does, on each of the four widgets.
- The action row, icon by icon
- First tap, second tap on the Week and Month
- Three calendar views, one tap away
- What each size shows
Calendar
The calendar, the event and task sheets, and Move.
- Day, Week and Month, and how to get around
- Add, edit and answer events
- Tasks: tick, edit and find completed ones
- Move an event or a task, and undo it
Two places, one app
You set NextUp up in the app, and you use it on your home screen. Nothing you do day to day needs the app open.
In the app
Open NextUp from your app drawer, or tap the cog on any widget.
New here? Your first widget
Three steps, about a minute. In the guides, FREE marks what everyone has and PRO what the one-time purchase adds.
2 · Add a widget
Pick a widget and place it.
On the dashboard tap Add widget, choose a kind, and confirm in your launcher's dialog. Or long-press your home screen, open Widgets, and drag NextUp into place.