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    • Getting Started 🤠
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  • Features
    • ✅Tasks
      • 🏷️Labels
      • 🐙Subtasks
      • 🔁Recurring tasks
      • 📩Email -> Task
      • ⏳Estimated/Actual time
      • 🎯Due dates
      • 🚩Task priority
      • ⏱️Task timer
      • 📎Task attachments
    • 🧠The Brain dump
    • 📚Lists
    • 🍱The Calendar Kanban
      • 🧘‍♀️Focus (on today) mode
    • 📅The Timebox
      • 💼Outlook calendar integration
      • 🤖Google calendar integration
      • 🍎Apple calendar integration
    • 🔔Notifications
    • ⌨️Keyboard Shortcuts & More
    • 🌤️Daily planning/shutdown (rituals)
    • 📊Analytics
    • 🔍Search
    • 📱iPhone/iPad App
      • 🐹iOS Widgets
      • 🎙️Siri integration
    • 💻Mac App
      • 📅Mac calendar menu bar
    • 🪟Windows app
    • 🔗Migrating from other tools
    • 🔌Integrations
      • 🍙Notion Integration
      • ⚡Zapier Integration
      • 👋Slack integration
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  • What is timeboxing (or timeblocking)?
  • Separate from your actual calendar (or not)
  • Working with multiple calendars
  • Week view
  • Month view
  • Calendar settings

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  1. Features

The Timebox

Drag tasks directly onto your calendar

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Last updated 8 months ago

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What is timeboxing (or timeblocking)?

In Ellie, timeboxing is the act of adding tasks onto the calendar to plan your day.

Separate from your actual calendar (or not)

Unlike many apps that support timeboxing, Ellie doesn't require you to connect your actual calendar to use it.

So if you are someone who just wants to timebox, but don't want tasks to appear in your Google/Outlook/Apple calendar, Ellie is perfect.

However, for those that do want tasks to appear in their Google calendar, we do offer a Google calendar integration. You can learn more about it here 👇

For Apple calendar users, we allow you to overlay Apple calendar events on the all devices. You can learn more about it here 👇

For Outlook integration, check out our Outlook calendar integration!

Working with multiple calendars

If you want to display multiple calendars on your timebox, you can do so by clicking the calendar icon in the bottom right of the timebox.

You can toggle calendars on/off by clicking the name directly

Week view

If you prefer to view your entire week at once in the Timebox, you can switch to "Calendar" view which makes the Timebox the focus of the app rather than the Kanan. The Ellie Kanban is moved to the right side and only displays a single day.

You can drag tasks directly onto this calendar as well.

Month view

Calendar settings

There are a few calendar settings that you can update to further customize the timebox/calendar experience in Ellie:

  1. Change the week start day (default is Sunday, but some users prefer Monday)

  2. Ability to hide weekends

  3. Ability to hide declined events

  4. Ability to change the time increment in the calendar (helpful if you need more granular increments when timeboxing)

Month view (along with a number of other views) is currently being worked on. You can upvote this to get an email update once its released

If you have any setting suggestions, please request them on our !

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🤖Google calendar integration
🍎Apple calendar integration
💼Outlook calendar integration
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Tasks timeboxed onto the calendar
Calendar toggle in the Ellie timebox
Week view in Ellie
Calendar setting options