The Day Dial
A new way to see your day: a 24-hour instrument face that turns your schedule into a single glowing dial. Midnight at the top, noon at the bottom, and everything you've planned drawn as arcs of light around the ring.
The face
- Your tasks and events appear as translucent arcs in muted versions of their own colors, with a luminous outer edge. Upcoming blocks glow brighter; past blocks recede.
- A precise tick field marks every 5 minutes, quarter hour, and hour, with labels every 3 hours.
- The orange now needle sweeps the face in real time, trailed by a soft radar-style afterglow, so you always know where you are in the day.
- Sunrise and sunset hairlines with sun and moon glyphs, placed from your actual location.
- A weather ring shows hourly temperatures and marks stretches of rain or snow.
- Your sleep window wraps the night as a quiet violet arc.
- Totals for Effort, Restore, Sleep, and Unblocked time sit below the dial with matching glyphs.
The hub
- A live clock, the weekday and date in serif type, and a one-line narration of what's happening now and what's next, with time remaining and time until.
- Hover or tap any arc to inspect it in the hub: title, times, duration, and tags.
- Tap an arc a second time for actions: complete it, or jump to it in the planner.
- When you're viewing another day, a TODAY chip appears in the hub to bring you straight back.
Getting around
- Open the dial with the new button in the desktop header or the GLANCE button on mobile, or press O.
- Browse days with the chevrons beside the weekday, arrow keys, or a swipe.
- T returns to today, F toggles fullscreen, Esc closes.
- Kiosk entry: launch straight into the dial with
?dialin the URL.
Layers and ambient mode
- A Layers panel (press L) lets you toggle the solar, weather, and calendar layers. Choices persist per device.
- Ambient mode (press A, or the eclipse button) turns the dial into a screensaver: fullscreen, chrome fades away, and the screen stays awake.
- Auto-start is opt-in: after 1, 5, 15, or 30 minutes of inactivity, the dial can slip into ambient mode on its own. A second toggle lets it start from anywhere in the planner, making it a true screensaver. Waking it returns you exactly where you were.
- A slow pixel orbit guards OLED screens against burn-in.
- Kiosk screensaver entry:
?dial&ambientin the URL.
Fixes
- Additional calendars no longer disappear when syncing settings across devices.
- iCloud calendar settings are now hidden on Windows and Linux desktop builds, where they don't apply.