Schedules
A schedule card is a real calendar living on your canvas. It shows one, three or six months at once, and each day can hold both loose content and whole clusters — a shoot day with its call sheet, shotlist and hour-by-hour inside. Dragging a day tile to another date moves that cluster. Loose content in the month grid stays read-only and is edited in the peek panel.
Being rebuilt. Schedule cards are temporarily off the Add menu while the calendar and the day view are reworked. Existing cards keep rendering and keep their content — nothing has been removed. This page describes what those cards do today.
A schedule card is a calendar with real dates, sitting on the canvas next to everything it refers to. Shooting days beside the location photos; a release plan beside the assets.
Views
Four zoom levels of the same schedule:
| View | Shows |
|---|---|
| Month | A whole month in a grid — or three, or six |
| Week | Seven days side by side |
| Day | One day, broken into hours |
| Hour | One hour, broken into minutes |
In month view, the 1 / 3 / 6 control sets how many months are on the card at once. Three months is a block of principal photography; you can see the whole shoot and drag a day from the first month to the last without paging.
Break a day down into hours, and an hour down into minutes, when a day needs that resolution. A prep week can sit at month view while the shoot day sits at hour view in the same board.
Navigation is yours
Stepping through months, jumping to a date, and Go to today only move your view. The card remembers the date it opens on, but a schedule shared with fifty people does not jerk under everyone else when you page forward.
Two things live on a date
Loose content — a note, an image, a file, a link — dropped straight into a slot. This is the quick kind: a reminder on a Tuesday, a reference photo on the day it is needed.
Shoot days — whole clusters that carry a date. A day tile on the calendar is a real cluster you can open, containing whatever the day needs: the script pages, the call sheet, the shotlist, an hour-by-hour schedule. See Production schedules.
Moving a day
Drag a day tile onto another date. The cluster moves, and a multi-day block keeps its length.
The peek panel
For loose content, the month and week grids are read-only. Clicking a day or an hour opens the peek — a panel where all editing happens.
This is deliberate. A dense calendar grid with inline editing produced constant mis-clicks: reaching for a slot and accidentally editing the one next to it. All edits going through the peek means the grid can be scanned and clicked confidently.
Day tiles are the one exception. They are draggable in the grid, because moving a day to a new date is the single thing a production schedule exists to do, and routing that through a panel would miss the point. They are also a separate element, so the rule for content is unchanged.
What a schedule is for
Anything where the cells mean time:
- Shoot days and unit moves
- Call sheets, with the location photo attached to the hour
- Delivery and release timelines
- A prep calendar with references attached to the day they are needed
If the cells mean position rather than time — a storyboard, a contact sheet, a comparison — you want a grid.
Frequently asked questions
Can I drop images and notes into a schedule?
Yes. Any card can go into a time slot, not just text. A call sheet with the location photo attached to the right hour works exactly as you would expect.
Can I add a schedule card right now?
Not at the moment. Schedule cards are being rebuilt, so the Schedule entry is off the Add menu. Cards you already have keep working, and everything on this page still describes them.
How do I move a day to a different date?
Drag its tile onto the new date. A multi-day block keeps its length.
Why can I not type directly into the calendar grid?
Loose content in the month and week grids is deliberately read-only — clicking a slot opens a peek panel and every edit happens there, because inline editing in a dense calendar produced constant mis-clicks. Day tiles are the exception: they are draggable, because moving a day is the thing a schedule exists for.
Does paging to next month move it for everyone?
No. Navigation is yours alone. The card remembers where it opens, but stepping through months, jumping to a date and "Go to today" are all local to you.
How do I get back to today?
The "Go to today" control, or the mini-calendar in the header to jump to any date.
Machine-readable: /docs/canvas/schedule.md · /llms.txt
What changed and when: /changelog