Maddy

Getting started

Maddy is a calendar and task list in one. It runs in your web browser, so there is nothing to install. On an iPhone you can add it to your Home screen so it opens like an app.

Add an event: use the buttons in the Add Event box at the top left: Speak it, take a Photo of an invitation or flyer, or Type it.
Add a task: use the Add Task box at the top of the task list on the right, the same way.
See your Google Calendar: open the three-line menu at the top left and click Connect Google Calendar.
Change how it looks: the palette icon picks a theme, and the gear opens Settings.

Hold the mouse over almost any button to see what it does.

The app updates itself. When a new version comes out, it reloads on its own while you’re not in the middle of something, or shows a Reload button. Nothing you’ve entered is lost.

Maddy is made in Menlo Park, California, by California National Trading Inc.

Adding events

Speak: click Speak in the Add Event box and speak naturally, for example “Dentist Friday at 3pm at 450 Sutter Street.” The date, time and place are filled in for you. The mic stops after a short pause, or click it again.
Photo: reads an invitation, flyer, ticket or web page. See Reading photos.
Type: opens the event window.
Add event on a day (computer, Month view): hold the mouse over a day and an Add event button appears at its top right, next to the full date and weather. Click it for the same Speak, Photo and Type buttons as Add Event, already set to that day. In narrow day boxes the date shortens to make room.
Double-click a day (double-tap on a phone): click an empty spot in any day twice for a small menu with Speak, Type and Photo, already set to that day. If a day is too full to find an empty spot, tap its N more and use Add event at the bottom. In Day, 4 days and Week, a spot in the hours also sets the time when you choose Type.
The event window has the title, date and time, all day, repeat (daily, weekly, custom), location, notes, reminder, guests and which calendar it goes in. Switch between Event and Task at the top.
Location: after you type 3 letters, places are suggested. Pick one with the arrow keys and Enter, or click it. You can also type anything you like.
Reminders: new events get the reminder chosen in Settings > Notifications. Reminders show in the bell.

Changing an event

Click an event to see its details, then edit or delete it.
Drag an event to another day or time. In Day and Week views, drag its bottom edge to change how long it is.
Repeating events: when you change one, you choose This event, This and following events or All events.
Right-click an event for more choices. See Right-click menu.
Changes show an Undo message for a few seconds.

Right-click menu

Right-click an event on the calendar to see:

Open, and a row of colors (including Calendar color).
Count down to this adds a small tile below the calendar counting the days to that event. Click the tile to open that day; the × removes it. It goes away by itself the day after.
Duplicate puts a copy on the same day. Copy lets you paste it somewhere else: right-click an empty day, or a time in Day or Week view, and choose Paste here. Clear copy forgets it.
Count down to this pins a small tile below the calendar that counts the days to that event, like “Hawaii trip 12 days”. Click the tile to open that day, or its × to remove it. It goes away by itself after the day.
Show as Busy or Free, and Private (people you share with see only “busy”).
Reminder: none, at the start, 10 or 30 minutes, 1 hour or 1 day before.
Move to another calendar, Email guests (when it has guests), Open in Google Calendar (Google events) and Delete.

On a task shown on the calendar: Open, Mark done or not done, and Delete (it goes to Trash).
On a daily routine block: Mark done or not done, and Change my routine.
Calendars added by link are view only, so their menu has only Open, Duplicate, Copy and Count down to this. Holidays have no menu.

Views and moving around

Tabs at the top right: Day, 4 days, Week, Month, Year and Schedule.
Today jumps back to today. The ‹ and › arrows go back and forward.
Month view: the mouse wheel moves a week at a time. Hold the mouse over a day to see its full date and that day’s weather. Click the day number to open that day.
Year view: all 12 months as small calendars. Days with something on them are marked, and holidays are circled in red. Click a day to open it.
Schedule view: a list of the next 30 days, showing only days with something planned. Click a row for details, or the date to open that day.
Mini calendar in the left column, with month and year pickers, jumps to any date.
The view the app opens in is set in Settings > Calendar > “Open the app in”.

Search

Click the magnifying glass at the top, or press /, and type.
The calendar shows only what matches, in whatever view is open. Schedule view is handy for seeing the matches as a list.
It looks in titles, places and notes, in your events, Google events, calendars added by link and holidays. Every word you type must appear, in any order.
Esc clears the search and closes the box.

Tasks (The Procrastinator’s Task List)

Open it: the checkbox icon at the top of the right edge. On a phone, tap the blue Tasks button at the lower right (it shows how many are open); there it turns into Calendar to jump back up.
Add: use Speak, Photo or Type in the Add Task box. Saying “Call John tomorrow” sets the due date. When you speak a task, saying “urgent” anywhere in it puts it in the Urgent group (“not urgent” doesn’t). To speak several tasks at once, say “next” between them, like a comma: “call Sue next buy milk urgent next pay rent Friday” adds three tasks (“next week” and “next Friday” still count as dates). A photo of a handwritten list adds one task per line, and pasting a list does the same.
Three groups: Urgent, Do it now and Take your time. Click a colored circle on a task to move it to that group. Drag a group’s header to change the order of the groups.
Edit: click a task’s words to change them, or its date to change the date.
Done: tick the box, and a little fireworks show goes off (turn it off in Settings > Look). Finished and removed tasks are kept under Archive and Trash, where you can put them back.
Keyboard: with the mouse over the list, the up and down arrows pick a task and Space or Enter checks it off.
The « button at the top of the list hides the left column so the calendar is wider (click it again to bring the column back), and the » button next to your calendar’s name hides the list.

Printing

Click the printer icon at the top of the task list.
It prints your open tasks in the same order as on screen (Urgent, Do it now, Take your time), each with a box to tick on paper. There’s no title or date at the top: just the list, in two columns with tight rows, and a long task wraps onto the next line.
Shopping list items you haven’t ticked follow under “Shopping list”.
The calendar itself doesn’t print. To share it, use Download (.ics).

Shopping list

Open it: the cart icon on the right edge. The title shows how many items are left.
Add: type and press Enter. “Milk, eggs and bread” or a pasted list becomes separate items; “mac and cheese” stays one item.
Mic: say items with “next” or “and” between them, for example “milk next eggs next bread”.
Photo: adds items from a photo of a list, a recipe or a product.
Each item: tick it when you have it, × removes it, Instacart searches for it, and the product button picks the Amazon product you usually buy.
Shop on Amazon shows your matched products in a short list. Each one is a link to its Amazon page, where you click Add to Cart yourself. A check mark shows the ones you’ve opened. The Whole Foods box uses the Whole Foods store on Amazon.
Import Amazon orders teaches it your usual brands. In Amazon, request your data, then choose the Retail.OrderHistory file. It’s read on your computer only.
Clear ticked removes items you have; Delete all empties the list (it asks first).
To hide the shopping list, use Settings > Show or hide.

Sticky notes

Open them: the sticky-note icon on the right edge, just under Daily routine. Your notes pop out over the calendar like a rolodex, with a new blank note on top ready to write in. Click the icon again, Close on the note, or press Esc to put them away. Close never deletes a note.
Minimize: the line button next to Close shrinks the stack to one bar that shows your note’s first line. Click it again, or double-click the bar, to open the notes back up.
The stack: your other notes sit right behind the new one, most recently viewed first, held together by two rings. Drag the top bar to move the stack (it pops out there next time), and drag a corner to resize them all.
Flip through: roll the mouse wheel over the notes to flip them over the rings like rolodex cards, or click a note behind to bring it to the front. A long note scrolls its own text first; at its end, roll a few more clicks to flip to the next note. The top note shows how many notes there are.
Buttons on the top bar: new note, pin (pinned notes come right after the new note), search all notes, note color, import, delete, and put away.
Search: type in the box under the stack. Enter goes to the next match, Shift+Enter goes back, and Esc closes it.
Colors: theme colors, yellow, green, blue, pink, purple, orange or gray.
Import from Windows Sticky Notes: close Sticky Notes on your computer, click import, and paste %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState in the File name box. Hold Ctrl and choose both plum.sqlite and plum.sqlite-wal (Windows keeps your newest typing in the -wal file for a while). Your Windows notes aren’t changed, and notes you already have are skipped. A .txt file with a blank line between notes works too.
Empty notes are cleared away when you put the notes away. Deleting a note with writing on it asks first.
Your notes sync to your other devices.

Contacts

Open them: the person icon on the right edge.
+ New contact: name, company, job title, phone, mobile, email, website, address, birthday and what they like. Enter saves and Esc cancels.
Gift ideas: a week before a birthday (from Contacts, or a calendar event with “birthday” in its name), the app offers three gift ideas from Claude. Add to Shopping list puts the one you like on your list. The Gift ideas button on a contact works any time. Only the name, age and the “likes” notes are sent, and each request counts as one Ask Claude question. Settings > Notifications turns the offer off.
Scan card: take a photo of a business card. One card opens the filled-in form for you to check; several cards in one photo are all added.
Import: adds contacts from a file. From Google Contacts, click Export and pick vCard or Google CSV; from an iPhone or Mac, export a vCard (.vcf); from Outlook, export a CSV. Someone already in your contacts isn’t added twice; only their empty fields are filled in.
Birthdays: every contact with a birthday shows on that day each year in the Birthdays calendar under Other calendars, with their age if you know the year.
Guests: when you add guests to an event, contacts with an email are suggested as you type.
Search contacts looks at every field.
Click a phone number to call, an email to write, a website to open it, or an address to see it in Google Maps.
Edit and Delete are on each contact. Contacts sync to your other devices.

Maps

Open it: the map pin icon on the right edge.
Type a place in “Search for a place” and click Show to see it on the map.
Directions and Google Maps open the place in Google Maps in a new tab.
Places on your calendar: events with a place in the next two weeks. Click one to see it on the map.

Morning briefing

The first time you open the app each day, a window asks if you want your briefing. Click Brief me to hear your day read aloud like an assistant would: what’s on the calendar, the weather and any countdown coming up in the next two weeks.
The words show on screen while they’re spoken; Stop ends it.
Settings > Voice: turn the daily offer on or off, set the name it calls you, or click Brief me to hear it any time.

Weekly time receipt

On Sundays, the first time you open the app, a receipt shows where last week’s hours went, calendar by calendar, compared with the week before, plus how many tasks you checked off.
It counts timed events in the calendars that are showing. All-day events, the daily routine, holidays, events marked free and calendars added by link aren’t counted.
See it any time from the menu (☰) > Weekly time receipt; the arrows go to earlier weeks. Turn off the Sunday pop-up in Settings > Calendar.

Ask Claude

Open it: the sparkle icon on the right edge. Back to calendar or Esc returns.
Type a question and press Enter (Shift+Enter for a new line). Questions can be up to 2,000 characters.
Speak: click the mic for a back-and-forth conversation. Each thing you say is sent when you pause, and you can talk over Claude to interrupt. The mic turns off after a minute of quiet.
Buttons at the top: Conversation (short spoken answers), Voice (natural or computer), Hey Claude, Save chat, Download (a Word file), New chat, and Stop talking while it speaks.
“Hey Claude”: when it’s on, say “Hey Claude” anywhere in the app to open a chat. It’s off until you turn it on.
Saved chats are listed on the left in three parts: Pinned at the top, then your folders, then Saved chats that aren’t in a folder. Each chat has Rename (the pencil), Download, Move to folder, Pin and Delete; you can also double-click a chat’s name to rename it. Click New folder to make a folder; drag a chat onto a folder (or use its folder button) to move it. Click a folder’s name to open or close it; its pencil renames it and its × deletes the folder (the chats in it go back to Saved chats). A chat you don’t save is temporary, and leaving it asks first. When you save a chat, Claude gives it a short title that says what it’s about; click the pencil next to it (or Saved while it’s open) to rename it. A name you pick is kept. Saved chats stay on this computer only; they don’t sync to your other devices, and we don’t keep a copy.
Add to calendar: when Claude suggests things to do on a date (ask “what’s going on this weekend near me?”), each one gets an Add to calendar button. Click it to put that event on your calendar (and in Google Calendar when it’s connected). Events without a known time are added as all-day.
It’s for quick everyday help: questions, plans and your calendar. It isn’t meant for writing computer code or long documents.
Ask Claude is a Pro feature with a monthly limit. See Maddy Pro.

Translate

Open it: the translate icon on the right edge. Back to calendar or Esc returns.
Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (simplified and traditional), Taiwanese, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Filipino and Thai.
“From” starts on Detect language. Your recent languages show as tabs, More lists them all, and ⇄ swaps the two sides.
It translates a moment after you stop typing, or right away with Translate or Ctrl+Enter. Up to 5,000 characters.
Chinese and Taiwanese also show how the words sound.
Mic listens in the “From” language. The speaker reads the answer aloud. Copy copies it.
Recent translations keeps your last 50. Click one to see it again.
Event titles, places and notes in other languages (Chinese, Spanish, French and so on) are shown in English by themselves. The original words stay in Google. To see them as written, turn off Show shared calendar events in English in Settings > Calendar.
Translate counts toward a monthly limit. See Maddy Pro.

YouTube

Open it: the YouTube icon on the right edge. Back to calendar or Esc returns.
Add channel: paste a YouTube channel’s link (or its @name, like @NASA). Only YouTube channels can be added, because only YouTube videos play in the Player.
Your channels show across the top. × removes one. A marked channel couldn’t update; hold the mouse over it to see why.
Videos are newest first. Click one to play it in the Player at the lower left; Ctrl-click (Cmd-click on a Mac) opens it on YouTube instead.
Refresh gets the newest posts now. It also checks by itself every 5 minutes while open.
New videos: when one of your channels posts a video, a pop-up tells you and it goes in the bell’s list. Click Play to watch it in the Player. The app checks every 15 minutes while it’s open, even with this page closed.
While a mic is on, or the app is reading something aloud, the Player pauses its video; it plays on by itself afterwards.
To hide the icon, use Settings > Show or hide.

Tracker

Open it: the chart icon on the right edge. Back to calendar or Esc returns.
It starts with Drinks and Sweets. + Track something adds your own: a name, how you count it (a number, halves, yes or no) and a daily goal.
Log: a year at a glance, one row per month, with totals and averages. Click a day to change it, add a note or clear it. ‹ › change the year.
Set a goal under the grid. Monthly averages are colored for meeting or missing it.
The chart shows every week, with 3-month and 12-month averages. Hold the mouse over it for any week. The Years tab compares every year.
Log a day is a quick entry for today or yesterday. It can remind you at 9 PM if today isn’t logged (only while the app is open).
Import from Excel reads your tracker spreadsheet on your computer; nothing is uploaded.
Withings sleep (coming soon to Pro) will bring in your sleep hours.
Your log syncs to your other devices.

Calculator

Open it: the calculator icon on the right edge.
Click the keys, or type: numbers, + − * /, %, Enter for the answer, Backspace, and Esc to clear. The answer shows as you type.
Speak: say things like “12 times 15 plus 8”, “100 times point two” (or “.2”, “decimal 2”, “two tenths”), “15 percent of 80”, “20 percent off 60”, “100 plus 10 percent” (110), “half of 90”, “5 squared”, “square root of 81”, “10 percent more than 50”, “50 is what percent of 200” or “the average of 10, 20 and 30”.
Keep going: right after an answer, say “times point two” or “plus 5” to carry on from it.
Percent keys: like a phone calculator, 100 + 10% gives 110 and 100 − 20% gives 80.
Copy copies the answer.
Recent answers keeps your last 12. Click one to use it again; Clear list empties it.
The mic can turn on by itself when the calculator opens. See Using the mic.

Daily routine

Open it: the clock icon on the right edge.
Each step has a start and end time, what to do, and the days it happens. × removes a step.
+ Add a step starts where the last step ended. With an empty list, Start from a sample day gives you one to change.
Show my routine on the calendar puts light blocks in the Day, 4 days and Week views. Click a block to tick it off.
Its own calendar: Daily routine has a row under My calendars on the left. Tick it to show or hide your routine; click its dot to pick a color; right-click it to edit your routine.
Pop up a note as each step starts sends a note to the bell (only while the app is open).
The window shows how many steps you’ve done today and how well you followed it over the last 7 days.

Gift cards

Open it: the gift icon in the column of icons on the far right, or the three-line menu at the top left, then Gift cards. It opens as its own page; Back to calendar (or Esc, or the gift icon again) returns to your calendar.
Add from a photo: take a photo of the back of the card. AI reads the store, the card number and the code (PIN). Check them against the card, since a blurry digit is left empty rather than guessed. Add by hand works too.
Check balance copies the card number and opens the store’s balance page (or a search for it). Paste the number there; Copy number and Copy code copy just the number or the PIN. Then come back and type the balance into the card’s Balance box. The app can’t fill in the store’s page or read the balance for you, because browsers don’t let one website type into another.
Each card shows the date its balance was last checked. Typing a new balance sets it to today. If the balance hasn’t changed, click Checked today, same balance. You can also change the date under Edit > Balance checked.
Delete on a card removes it (you’re asked first).
If you know a store’s balance page, put it under Edit > Balance website and Check balance goes straight there.
Total balance at the top adds up what’s left on all your cards. Cards with a $0 balance move to the bottom. Once a month a note in the bell says what’s left; turn it off at the bottom of the page.
Privacy: card numbers and codes stay on your device and in your backups. Sync scrambles them before they leave, so our server can’t read them. A photo is sent only to be read, and is deleted once it’s read.

Booking page

Open it: the three-line menu at the top left, then Booking page. You need to be signed in with Google (Settings > Maddy Pro).
Pick your link name, meeting length, days and hours, then Turn on my page. Share the link, like speakcalendar.com/book/your-name. To send it to one person, type their name and email under A link for one person and click Copy link for this person; their details are already filled in when they open it.
Visitors see only your open times: your hours minus anything busy on your calendar. Tasks, all-day events, events marked free and your daily routine don’t block times. Event titles never leave your device.
When someone books, it’s added to your calendar and a note goes to the bell. With Google Calendar connected it goes into Google, and Google emails the visitor an invitation.
The app updates your open times and picks up new bookings while it’s open, so open it now and then. Turn page off stops new bookings.

Reading photos

Events: click Photo in the Add Event box. It reads flyers, posters, invitations, tickets and screenshots of web pages. You can also paste a web page link and click Read link, paste a screenshot, or drag a picture onto the window.
One event opens the filled-in event window to check and save. A schedule with many dates becomes a list, each with Add.
Tasks: click Photo in the Add Task box and take a picture of a handwritten or printed list. Check each item, fix anything misread, and click Add tasks. Crossed-out items start unticked.
Shopping: the shopping list’s Photo button reads a list, a recipe or a product. Contacts: Scan card reads business cards.
On a computer, Photo shows a code. Scan it with your iPhone camera, tap the link, and take the picture with your phone (the code lasts 10 minutes). Use the webcam or Choose a file instead work too.
Reading photos is a Pro feature with a monthly limit. See Maddy Pro.

Time to leave (coming soon)

Traffic alerts are coming soon to Pro. Here’s how they will work.

Two hours before an event with a place, the app checks the drive with live traffic.
You’re told when to leave, again if traffic gets worse, about 15 minutes before, and at leave time.
Online meetings and places very close by are skipped.
Choose the settings in Settings > Notifications: alerts in the app, in the app and spoken, or off; start from where you are or your home address; and extra time to park and walk in.
Alerts work while the calendar is open. A linked iPhone can get them even when the calendar is closed (Settings > Notifications > Link my iPhone).

Left column

Your calendar’s name: click the top line and type, for example “Jeff Chen’s Amazing Calendar.”
Under it: the Add Event box, the month and year pickers, the mini calendar, the Player, My views, My calendars, Google calendars (once Google is connected; its Edit button picks which ones show), Other calendars and Download (.ics).
My calendars: tick Events, Tasks, your own calendars and your Google calendars to show or hide them.
Drag the edge of the column to make it wider or narrower. The three-line menu at the top left hides or shows the whole column. Click a section’s heading to fold it away.

Player

The Player box in the left column has two tabs: YouTube and Slideshow.
YouTube: paste a video or playlist link and click Play. Bigger makes the video larger over the calendar, and Close stops it; Open brings it back. Each video picks up where you left off, even after the app reloads or updates; if it was playing just before, it keeps playing (your browser may want one click first).
Find a video on YouTube opens YouTube in a new tab.
Slideshow: shows your pictures, with ‹ › to go back and forward. Choose the pictures in Settings > Background pictures: Windows Spotlight photos or My pictures (a folder on your computer; nothing is uploaded).
To hide the Player, use Settings > Show or hide.

My views

A view is a saved set of ticked calendars, like “Home” or “Work”.
New view: tick the calendars you want, click New view, type a name and click Save.
Click a view to show exactly its calendars. The view that matches what’s showing looks pressed.
Edit changes the view that’s selected: tick or untick calendars below, rename it if you like, then click Save. Cancel puts its calendars back as they were, and Delete removes the view. Deleting a view never deletes calendars or events.
Views sync to your other devices.

Your own calendars

Under My calendars, click + New calendar and type a name, like “Work” or “Kids”.
When you add an event, pick the calendar in the Calendar box. Its events take the calendar’s color unless you give an event its own.
Tick or untick a calendar to show or hide its events. My views can remember these ticks too.
Click the colored dot next to a calendar to change its color. Point at a calendar and click … (or right-click it) to rename it, change its color or delete it. Deleting a calendar moves its events to Events, so nothing is lost.
To move one event to another calendar, right-click it and choose Move to.
These calendars live in this app. They sync to your other devices and are in your backups, but they don’t go to Google Calendar.

Other calendars and holidays

US holidays and Stock market holidays (market closed and early-close days) are built in, and so is Birthdays (from your contacts). Tick or untick to show or hide them, or hover and click × to remove one; it comes back from + Add calendar by link or file (“Add back”).
+ Add calendar by link or file shows someone else’s calendar, like a school, team, Outlook or iCloud calendar. Give it a name, paste its link (starting with https:// or webcal://) or choose a .ics file, and pick a color. The window explains where to find the link.
These calendars are view only. Linked ones update about every 30 minutes; a file is a fixed copy.
A ! means it couldn’t be read; hold the mouse over it to see why. × removes it from your calendar.

Download (.ics)

Open Download (.ics) at the bottom of the left column.
Events, Tasks, Holidays or All save a calendar file that Outlook, Apple Calendar and Google Calendar can open.
Only your own events and tasks are included, not Google calendars or calendars added by link.
Choose where files go in Settings > Downloads (Chrome or Edge on a computer). Otherwise they go to your usual Downloads folder.

Top bar

Three-line menu: your account, Google Calendar (connect, sync now, choose calendars, disconnect), Help, and showing or hiding the left column.
Today, the ‹ › arrows and the month name. See Views and moving around.
Weather, the magnifying glass, the bell, the question mark (this Help), the palette and the gear.
Circle arrow: loads the newest version of the app.
Left-and-right arrow (full width): hides the left column, the right-hand list and the icon strip so the calendar fills the screen, handy on a laptop. Click it again, or press F, to bring them back. Opening the task list or another panel also brings them back.
Up-and-down arrow: makes the days taller or shorter.
Red “Mic on”: shows whenever a mic is listening. Click it to turn the mic off.
The view tabs. World times can show under them; turn them on in Settings > Show or hide.

Weather

The top bar shows the temperature, air quality, UV and the next sunset or sunrise.
Click it for more: feels like, sunrise and sunset, and the next 6 days with highs, lows and the chance of rain.
Change place sets your city or ZIP code. Show °C switches to Celsius.
In Month view, hold the mouse over a day to see that day’s weather (the past month and the next 16 days).
It updates every 30 minutes. To hide it, use Settings > Show or hide.

World times

The line under the view tabs shows the time in up to 4 places. The first one is home.
Click the line to change it. Pick a city or any time zone, give it a short name, use ↑ ↓ to change the order, and Remove to take one away.
Typing a city's name, like Shanghai or Paris, picks that city's time too.
Reset goes back to Pacific, New York, London and Tokyo.
It's off at first. To show it, use Settings > Show or hide > World times under the view tabs.

Notifications (the bell)

The bell at the top collects your event reminders, traffic alerts, routine steps and the Tracker’s reminder. A number shows how many are new.
New ones also pop up at the bottom right with a soft chime. Click × to close one.
Click the bell to see the list. Click an item to go to it, or × to remove it. Mark all read and Clear all are at the top.
In Settings > Notifications you can turn off the chime, choose the standard reminder for new events, and also show Windows notifications outside the app.
Notifications work while the app is open.
Once in a while (never in your first two weeks, and at most every two months), a window asks if you’d tell a friend about Maddy. Tell a friend opens your phone’s share menu or copies the link; Share on Facebook first shows what the post will look like, with words you can change or replace. Your words are copied, Facebook opens, and you paste them in; nothing is shared until you press Post on Facebook. Tick Don’t show this again to stop it.

Themes and the calendar flip

Click the palette at the top to pick a theme. The menu has sections: Our picks (the six we think look best), Glass, Tiles, Light and classic, Dark and rich, and Slate. There are more than twenty, including Light, Glass, Glass night (the standard one), Ivory, Mist, Soft tiles and Soft tiles night (each day a softly raised rounded tile), Glass tiles and Glass tiles night (Glass with frosted day tiles), Slate in ten colors, Navy and gold, Espresso, Pine and Plum.
The theme is saved on each device separately.
Pop-up menus, like this one, Notifications and the color menu next to a calendar, close by themselves after 10 seconds with nothing done in them. They stay open while the pointer rests on them.
The flip: when you change months, weeks or days, the calendar turns like a page. Glass themes add a soft glare.
Turn the flip off, or change how long it takes, in Settings > Calendar.
More choices, like font, text size and colors, are in Settings > Look.
Event colors: every event takes its calendar’s color. Google calendars start with their color from Google, and Events starts blue. Click the colored dot next to any calendar in the left column (or right-click the calendar) to change its color. There are 36 colors: Google’s event colors, Google’s other calendar colors, and Outlook’s colors. On dark themes events show as deep colors with a bright edge; on light themes as plain colors. An event you color yourself (right-click it, or in the event window) keeps its own color.

Google Calendar

Open the three-line menu at the top left, click Connect Google Calendar and sign in.
Your events are read from and saved to Google, so they match everywhere. Tasks stay in this app.
Once connected, the same menu shows when it last synced (click it to sync now), Choose calendars to pick which Google calendars show, and Disconnect, which turns syncing off; your Google events stay in Google.
If Google needs you to sign in again, a Reconnect Google button shows at the top right.
Connecting Google Calendar also signs you in to Maddy.

Outlook

Under My calendars on the left, click + Connect Outlook and sign in with your Microsoft account (work, school, Outlook.com or Hotmail).
Tick the Outlook calendars to show. Your events are read from and saved to Outlook, so they match everywhere. Tasks stay in this app.
If Outlook already shows your Google calendars, leave those unticked. Calendars with the same name as a Google calendar start unticked, and an Outlook event that Google already shows (same title, day and time) is shown once.
With Google connected too, new events go to Google unless you pick an Outlook calendar in the event window.
Outlook syncs every minute while the calendar is open. Edit beside Outlook calendars changes which show, or disconnects; your events stay in Outlook.
Outlook keeps one reminder per event (the earliest one you set). Events can’t move between Google and Outlook.

Yahoo

Under My calendars on the left, click + Connect Yahoo. Yahoo lets other calendar apps in with an app password, a separate password just for this app. The window links to Yahoo’s App passwords page and shows the three steps.
Type your Yahoo email and paste the app password. Your regular Yahoo password is never asked for. The app password is kept scrambled on this device only, and our server passes your events to and from Yahoo without keeping a copy.
Tick the Yahoo calendars to show. Your events are read from and saved to Yahoo, so they match everywhere. Tasks stay in this app.
A Yahoo calendar with the same name as one from Google or Outlook starts unticked, and a Yahoo event already shown from another calendar (same title, day and time) is shown once.
Yahoo syncs every 2 minutes while the calendar is open, showing 6 months back and 18 months ahead. Edit beside Yahoo calendars changes which show, or disconnects; your events stay in Yahoo.
Answer Yahoo invitations in Yahoo Calendar. Events can’t move between Yahoo and Google or Outlook. To stop access completely, remove the app password on Yahoo’s App passwords page.

Sync between devices

Open Settings > Sync on one device and click Show code. On the other device, type the 6-letter code and click Link.
Events, tasks, the shopping list, notes, sticky notes, contacts, views, other calendars, your routine and the Tracker then stay the same on both.
Everything is scrambled on your device before it’s sent, so our server can’t read it.
If none of your linked devices syncs for 6 months, the server copy is deleted. Your devices keep their own copies.
Ask Claude chats don’t sync. They stay on the computer where you saved them, and we don’t keep a copy.
Sync now syncs right away and shows when it last synced.
Settings and themes stay separate on each device.

Backup and restore

Your calendar is saved in this browser. Back it up so nothing is lost.
Download backup (Settings > Backup) saves everything in one file. Restore brings a backup file back and replaces what’s here.
Automatic backup (Chrome or Edge on a computer): choose a folder, for example in OneDrive. It saves after every change and keeps one copy a day for the last 30 days.
Until you set up backup or sync, a reminder appears once you’ve started using the app. Tick Don’t show this again to stop it.
Reset settings puts back the standard choices without touching your events, tasks or lists.

Settings

The gear at the top opens Settings. On a phone, only the phone settings show.

Maddy Pro: your plan, sign-in, upgrade and how much you’ve used this month.
Calendar: theme, the flip, first day of the week, which view opens first, 12 or 24 hours, and the first hour in Day and Week views.
Look: font, header text color, text weight, text sizes, accent color, the Add buttons’ color, faded past events, and the Month view highlight.
Show or hide: parts of the screen, like the mini calendar, the day mics, the shopping list, the Player, weather, world times and some right-edge icons.
Voice: how long the mic waits in quiet, and whether Ask Claude or the calculator turns its mic on by itself.
Notifications: the standard reminder, the chime, Windows notifications, traffic alerts and linking your iPhone.
Layout: reset the column widths. Background pictures: pictures behind the calendar or in the Player.
Sync, Downloads and Backup. See Sync and Backup.

Maddy Pro and signing in

Sign in: the three-line menu at the top left, then Sign in with Google. Connecting Google Calendar signs you in too. Signing in is per device, and you stay signed in as long as you open the app at least once every 180 days.
No Google account? Click Sign in, type your email and click Email me a code. Type the 6-digit code from the email. There’s no password. The same email address always reaches the same account, whether you sign in with Google or by email.
Signing in doesn’t move your calendar. It stays saved in this browser and on devices you link in Settings > Sync.
Upgrade: Settings > Maddy Pro, then $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year. Payment is handled by Stripe.
Pro includes Ask Claude, reading photos, translation, the natural read-aloud voice and iPhone voice typing, with monthly amounts for each. Settings shows how much you’ve used. Amounts reset on the 1st of each month.
Have a code? If we gave you a free Pro code, type it in Settings > Maddy Pro > Have a code? and click Use code. You’ll be asked to sign in with Google first. No card is needed and nothing renews. If the code has an end date, Settings shows it, and the account goes back to the free plan after that day.
Change or cancel subscription opens a secure Stripe page. You keep Pro until the end of the time you’ve paid for.
Plans and limits are explained at speakcalendar.com/pro.

On your iPhone

Open app.speakcalendar.com in Safari, tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen. Open it from that icon from then on.
The Add Event and Add Task boxes are at the top, with the month underneath.
Swipe left to go from Home to Month to Schedule and back to Home; swipe right to go the other way. In Month, swipe up for the next month and down for the one before (or use the arrows at the top), and pinch to zoom the month. The first few times you open Month, a short hint shows these swipes; it stops once you swipe.
To speak, tap the mic, talk, then tap again.
Link your phone and computer in Settings > Sync so both show the same tasks and lists.
Settings on the phone shows only the phone options; the rest are on your computer.

Using the mic

You can speak instead of typing almost everywhere: the Speak buttons in Add Event and Add Task, Speak in the menu you get by double-clicking a day, the shopping list, Translate, Ask Claude and the calculator.

Start and stop: click a mic to start. Click it again to stop. It also stops by itself after a few seconds of quiet. You can choose how many seconds under Settings (the gear), then Voice, then “Mic stops after this much quiet”.
While it listens: the mic button is highlighted, and the words appear as you speak.
The first time: the browser asks to use your microphone. Click Allow. If you clicked Block by mistake, click the small icon at the left of the web address, find Microphone, choose Allow, then reload the page.
Mic language: Settings > Voice > Mic language picks the language you speak (about 35 to choose from). Automatic uses this browser’s language. It’s kept on each device, so each person can choose their own. In any language, say the day and time with the event (“cita con el médico mañana a las 3”) and they’re filled in for you; the title stays in your language.

Mic on when a page opens

Ask Claude and the calculator can turn their mic on by themselves when you open them, so you can start talking right away. This is off unless you turn it on, so nothing listens until you click a mic.

To turn it on: open Settings (the gear), go to Voice, and set “Mic turns on when Ask Claude opens” or “Mic turns on when the calculator opens” to On.
How long it stays on: “A mic turned on this way stays on for” sets a limit: 30 seconds, 1, 2 or 5 minutes, or no time limit. After that time the mic turns off by itself.
Always: clicking the mic or closing the page turns the mic off right away.
“Hey Claude”: the Hey Claude button at the top of Ask Claude is separate. When it is on, you can say “Hey Claude” anywhere in the app to start a chat, and a red mic at the top shows while it listens. It is off until you turn it on.

The mics listen in your browser’s language. On an iPhone, tap the mic, speak, then tap again; your words are written down a moment later.

Keyboard shortcuts

These work when you are not typing in a box.

`T`	Go to today
`J` / `K`	Next / previous (month, week or day)
`D` `X` `W` `M` `Y` `A`	Day, 4 days, Week, Month, Year, Schedule
`N` or `C`	New event
`/`	Search
`F`	Full width: hide or show the side columns
`?`	This list of shortcuts
Arrow keys	Pick a day (up and down move a week), in Day, Week and Month views
`Tab`	Step through the picked day’s events
`Enter`	Open the picked event, or add one on the picked day
`Delete`	Delete the picked event
`Esc`	Stop picking; close a window or a full-screen page
Mouse wheel	Month view: move a week at a time
`↑` `↓`, `Space`	Task list (mouse over it): pick a task, check it off
Numbers, `Enter`	Calculator (when open): type a sum, Enter for the answer, Esc to clear
`Enter` / `Shift`+`Enter`	Ask Claude: send / new line
`Ctrl`+`Enter`	Translate right away

Add Event

Add Task