Widget settings

The settings screen

Each widget has a screen of its own, with a live preview that follows every change you make. There are three ways in:

• On the dashboard, tap the widget's page.
• On the dashboard, tap Configure under the widget.
• On the widget itself, tap the cog. The app opens on that widget, one tap from its settings.

Nothing needs saving: an edit shows in the preview at once and reaches the widget on your home screen a moment later.

Hidden rows and greyed rows

The four kinds of widget share this screen, and it changes with the kind.

• A row a widget has no use for is left out. A Week has no Days ahead, because the week is its range, so the row is not there. The table at the end says which widget has which row.
• A greyed row is switched off by another setting, and comes back when you change that setting. 24-hour clock is greyed while Start time and End time are both off, because no time is printed.

One copy, or one per widget

Text sizes, Compact view, colours and corners are not here: they are on the Style tab.

Content, on every widget

The Content card decides what gets into the widget at all: which calendars and which of their events are filtered out, then whose tasks and which of those. Its groups come in two pairs, in this order, on all four widgets: Calendars and Calendar filters, then Google Tasks and Google Tasks filters.

Calendars

A switch for every calendar on your phone, each with its colour. All are on to begin with, and the summary reads Showing: All calendars. Turn one off and its events leave the widget; nothing changes in your calendar app. Which calendars exist is your phone's business: see Calendars on the dashboard.

Calendar filters

Filters take events out of the widget. They never touch your calendar, and they never hide a task. The summary counts the ones that are on.

• Where the words are looked for. Under each word list, three chips: Title (the default), Notes or Both. Capitals do not matter, and a word matches inside a longer one: "call" also catches "Recall".
• The two lists work together. An event must contain a word from the show list, if there is one, and none from the hide list. The same word in both would hide everything, so NextUp refuses it and tells you which word.

Google Tasks PRO

Puts your Google Tasks beside your events, on the day each is due. Without Pro the group carries a PRO badge and opens the Pro screen. With Pro and no account yet, its summary reads Connect an account on the dashboard: accounts are connected on the dashboard, not here.

There is no switch for tasks as a whole. The accounts are the switch, as the calendars are for your events: a widget shows tasks while at least one account is on. Turn every account off and the summary reads Off, with no task on the widget; turn one back on and they return.

The summary says what is left out, as the Calendars group's does: Showing: 1 of 2 accounts, or Showing: 3 of 4 lists once a list is off. With everything shown it is the account's address, or Showing: All accounts when you connected several.

Google Tasks filters PRO

What Calendar filters is to your events, for your tasks: which are marked and which are left out. The group is there with Pro and an account connected. Its summary counts the switches that are on, 1 active to begin with, and its rows are greyed while the widget shows no account.

Event details

Decides what each event's row carries under its title. Every detail you switch on is one more line, drawn only for the events that have it, so a short row means more events fit in the widget. The group is on all four widgets; NextUp has fewer of its rows.

On a Month set to Titles the whole group is greyed.

Widget actions

Every widget carries one row of icons. This group picks which icons are in it and whether it sits under the content or above it. What a tap on each icon does is on the Widgets page, under The action row.

The group's summary counts the icons and says where the row is, for example 5 icons · At the bottom. With every icon off it reads No icons. A narrow widget can leave some icons out by itself: see When the widget is narrow.

Refresh

A widget is a picture that is redrawn now and then. A change in your calendar always redraws it at once, whatever you choose here. This group is about the redraws in between, which are what move an event from "next" to "now" and take it away when it is over.

• Android delivers Smart's redraws and the short intervals at most about every 9 minutes, and less often the less you open the app.
• Google Tasks are the exception. A task you change in NextUp shows at once. A task changed elsewhere, such as in Gmail or on another device, waits for the next redraw or for a tap on the widget's refresh icon.

Agenda's own settings FREE

The Agenda is a list of days, so its own group, Days, is about days: how many it lists, what happens to the empty ones, and what each day's header says. Its summary reads, as it comes, "7 days · Date headers".

NextUp's settings PRO

NextUp shows what is on now or what comes next, and decides by itself which of its four faces to wear. Those faces are not settings, so its screen is the shortest of the four.

Week's settings PRO

The Week is seven columns, with the picked day's list under them once the widget is tall enough. So it has two groups of its own: Week grid for the columns, and Event list for the list.

The Week grid group

The Event list group

On the Week, the Agenda's Days group is called Event list, and it shapes the picked day's list. It keeps the rows that say how the day's name is written (Day header, Long date, Today / Tomorrow labels, Highlight later days) and Scroll arrows, with the defaults in the Agenda's table.

• Left out on the Week: Days ahead, Hide empty days and Show “No events”, because the week is the range and the one picked day is always listed; and Day separators, because one day has nothing to be divided from.
• The arrows beside the dates are not a setting. They are the only way to another week, so they are always there.
• Size matters more than any switch. At its smallest, 4×3, the Week shows the columns only. The list appears from a little over 4×4. What each size shows.

Month's settings PRO

The Month is a grid of days, with a list under it when there is room. Its Month grid group decides how a day in the grid shows what is on it.

The Month grid group

What a heat level means

Heat has six levels, from a faint tint to the full colour. A day with nothing on has no tint at all.

• By hours, two events that overlap count once for the time they share.
• Tasks never book hours. An all-day event books 8 only with Count all-day events.
• With Hide past events on, today's cell drops what has ended, so today cools as the day goes by.

The Event list group

On the Month, the Agenda's Days group is called Event list: it shapes the list under the grid. It has the Agenda's header rows (Day header, Long date, Today / Tomorrow labels, Highlight later days), Day separators and Scroll arrows, and one row of its own:

The Month has no Days ahead, Hide empty days or Show “No events”: the grid is its range, and the list skips the days with nothing on, because the grid already shows them.

What the size decides

The Month's size, not a setting, decides whether the list shows, where it sits and whether NextUp's card fits: see What each size shows. Under Titles a small Month pages through its weeks: see the Month widget.

Every setting, by widget

Every row of the Settings tab, in the order the app lists them, with its default. A tick means the widget has the row; a dash means the row is left out on that widget.

NextUp, Week and Month are Pro widgets, so on them every PRO row is unlocked. On a free Agenda a PRO row shows its badge and opens the Pro screen; Default event duration is not listed at all.