Planning

Schedule tasks your way

Put tasks on your calendar by dragging them or straight from the calendar, start events from the keyboard, and give each task a time, a day or the whole day.

Drag a task onto the calendar

Drag a task onto the calendar to give it a time, or start from an empty time and create one there. To have Chunk fill your day for you, see Fill your day from the Plan queue.

  1. At Plan, drag a task from your list onto the calendar.
  2. Let go at the time you want. The block takes the task's length, or an hour if it has none, and lines up with the Snap to grid.
  3. On Month, drop it on a day and it starts at 9 am.

Drag a task that already has a time and Chunk may ask first: Add Session adds another block for it, and Reschedule moves the one it has.

Start a block right now

  1. Click the lightning bolt in the toolbar, labelled Instant task. In the compact panel, it's in the bar along the foot.
  2. Pick a length and click +. A block starts on today's calendar straight away.

The bolt won't start a block over one that's running, or when there's no room left today.

Create straight on the calendar

  1. Right-click or double-click an empty time on the calendar.
  2. Choose New task, type its name and click away. It's saved at that time.
  3. Or choose New calendar event, name it, pick the calendar and click Create.
  4. Or choose New reminder and a Reminders list to add an Apple reminder there.
With a calendar and Reminders lists connected.

Or press on an empty time and drag to the length you want. It opens as a new task, ready for its name.

New event from the keyboard

Press ⌥⌘N, or click + on the calendar's date bar, labelled New event. Either starts a calendar event at the next half hour on the day in view.

On Month, right-click a day for the same menu, at 9 am. Double-click a day to add a task at the first free quarter hour from 9 am.

Give a task a day, not a time

A task with just a day waits in the strip above that day's timeline until you're ready.

  1. Open the task's card and click the calendar icon, labelled Schedule task.
  2. Pick the day and tick No time yet. For something that takes the whole day, such as a trip, tick All day task instead.
  3. Click the tick (✓) to save.
Day-only and all-day tasks in the strip above the timeline.

Both sit in the strip marked all-day. When you know when you'll do a day-only task, drag it from the strip onto a time.

Turn an event into a task

Events from your connected calendars sit beside your tasks so you can plan round them. An event has a strip in its calendar's colour. A task has a circle to tick it off.

  1. Click the event to open it.
  2. Click the swap icon in its toolbar, labelled Convert to Chunk.

Chunk makes a task at the same time, then deletes the event from its calendar. It asks first, unless you've turned off Confirm edits in Settings → Calendars.

To go the other way, open a task's block, click the swap icon, labelled Convert to Calendar, pick a calendar and click Convert: the task becomes an event. The icon is greyed out for a task with a checklist or attachments.

FAQ

Why is New calendar event greyed out?

No calendar is connected yet. Add your Google, Outlook or Apple calendar in Settings → Calendars, and New calendar event, the + on the date bar and ⌥⌘N all start working.

What happens to a new task I don't name?

Chunk lets it go. A task made from the right-click menu or by drawing a block is kept only once it has a name.

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Updated 9 November 2026