Calendar & events

The month grid

Each person's events show as a coloured dot matching their profile colour, so you can see at a glance who's doing what. Tap a day to see its full agenda below the grid.

A small check mark next to the date means someone has a to-do due that day too, coloured to match whoever it's assigned to, the same colour their events use. Unassigned to-dos get a plain grey check mark instead. It's just a hint, so tap the day to see the actual to-dos listed under that day's events.

Month view. Coloured dots per attendee, a recurring event on Wednesdays, a conflict warning on the 10th, and coloured to-do check marks next to a couple of dates.

Shared vs private

Setting	Who can see it
Shared (default)	The whole family: everyone can see it on their calendar, read-only unless they created it.
Private	Only the people you tag. Nobody else in the family sees it exists at all.

Good to know:Tagging people is a separate idea from visibility. On a shared event, tagging just says who's actually going. The rest of the family can still see it on the calendar. Leave “Who's going” empty on a shared event and it means the whole family, not nobody.

A private event's detail sheet, visible only to whoever's tagged.

All-day vs timed

All-day events don't have a specific time and span whole dates, good for things like “away for the weekend” or a birthday. Timed events have a start and (optionally) an end time.

Location

Add a location and the event detail shows a “Get directions” link that opens it straight in Google Maps, handy for anyone in the family checking the event on their phone.

Recurring events

Set a pattern once and FamKnit creates every occurrence for you. The Repeats options are:

Repeats	What you can also set
Never (default)	—
Daily	Ends: never, on a chosen date, or after a number of times.
Weekly	Which day(s) of the week it falls on, plus the same Ends choice.
Monthly	Same Ends choice; repeats on the same date each month.
Yearly	Same Ends choice; repeats on the same date each year.

Good to know:Editing or deleting a recurring event always asks whether you mean the whole series or just this one occurrence. There is no partial “this and all future ones” option like some calendar apps have. A whole-series edit rewrites the pattern going forward; past occurrences are left untouched as a record of what actually happened.

Clashes and warnings

There are two different warnings, and they mean different things:

Warning	When you see it	What it means
Amber	While creating or editing an event	Someone you're adding is already busy at that time. Never blocks saving, just a heads-up.
Red mark	On an already-saved event, on the calendar grid and elsewhere	A genuine double-booking. You only see this for clashes involving you or a child you're responsible for reminders for.

The amber warning shown while editing an event that clashes.

Two saved events on the same day both showing the red conflict mark.

Busy vs Free (all-day events)

Setting	Effect on clash-checking
Busy (default)	Blocks timed events on the same date(s) for whoever's tagged, Google Calendar style.
Free	Sits out of clash-checking entirely. Use for things that shouldn't block your day, like a birthday or bin day.

Two all-day events never clash with each other either way, only an all-day event against a timed one.

Reminders

Set by whoever creates the event, and it applies to everyone tagged. You can pick more than one offset at once (e.g. both “30 minutes” and “1 day” before). Each tagged person gets a reminder at every offset chosen.

Good to know:Unlike to-do reminders, event reminders always fire on time, even during your quiet hours, since deferring a reminder for something happening at a fixed moment could mean it arrives after the event already started.

Prep to-dos

You can add a to-do straight from an event (useful for “pack swimming kit” before swim club), or link an existing to-do to an event from the to-do form. Deleting the event will ask what to do with any linked to-dos.

To-dos on the calendar

Whatever's due on a day shows in its own “To-dos” list underneath that day's events, whoever it's assigned to. This is the whole family's to-do list, not just yours, so you can see what everyone has on at a glance.

Tap a to-do to open it on the To-dos tab, where you can read its notes in full. You can mark anything complete from there, but only whoever added a to-do can change or delete it.

In Day view, a to-do with a specific time shows as a dashed line at that time on the hour grid, with its title in a small pill. It's deliberately different from an event block so the two are never confused. To-dos with just a date and no time only show in the list, not on the grid. The dashed line, the pill, and each row's left edge in the list below are all coloured the same way as the month grid's check marks: by who the to-do is assigned to.

Good to know:Only what's still to do shows up here. Once something's marked complete it comes off the calendar (and the check mark too, if that was the last thing due that day) and moves to its usual home on the To-dos tab's History.

Day view showing a to-do's due time on the hour grid, and the day's to-dos listed underneath.

Getting events into your phone's calendar app

Option	Where to find it	What it does
Add to calendar	Inside an event's detail sheet	Downloads that one event as a file you can import anywhere. A snapshot. Won't update itself if the event changes later.
Subscribe to Family Calendar	Preferences → Connected apps and devices	A personal link you add once to Google/Apple/Outlook as a subscribed calendar. Updates itself on your calendar app's own schedule (usually every few hours) and only ever shows what you can already see in FamKnit. Nobody else's link shows the same thing as yours.

Step-by-step instructions, and what to do if you ever need to cancel the link, are in Connected apps and devices.

Bringing an existing calendar in

That's the opposite direction, with your events going out to another app. If you want to come the other way and copy what you already keep in Samsung Calendar, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook into FamKnit, use the import button next to Today.

It's covered in Importing your calendar.

Finding an event

Can't remember which day something's on? The search icon in the top bar looks across your whole calendar, not just what's currently on screen, and can narrow to just events or filter by who's on it. See Finding things in Getting started.