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New in 0.4.0

TimeCal is in beta. This release is about TimeCal speaking your language, in every sense: two new languages, an appearance of your own, a timeline that keeps local habits, and rules you can have your AI write for you.

• Spanish and Portuguese. TimeCal now follows your Mac's language, and if you would rather it did not, Settings, General, Language lets you pick English, Español, or Português for TimeCal alone. The calendar permission prompt speaks the same language. These translations are a first pass, so if a phrase reads oddly, tell me and it will read better next time.
• Light or dark, your call. Settings, General, Appearance: System, Light, or Dark, for TimeCal only. It changes the moment you pick it, with a crossfade, and stays that way.
• Rules, written by your AI. In Settings, Rules, the menu at the end of the +/− bar has Copy Prompt for AI. Paste that into any AI chat with nothing else, answer its question about what you need to see, and paste its reply back with Paste Rules from AI. The rules land on your timeline first, tagged Proposed, so you can judge them where they matter. Nothing is saved until you press Apply, and Discard puts everything back. No event data leaves TimeCal; the prompt carries your calendar names and your existing rules, nothing more.
• The timeline keeps local habits. Change time zones, even mid-flight, and the headers, the now line, and the shading follow without a relaunch. The weekend is your region's weekend, Friday and Saturday where that is the custom. The date box takes month names in your language ("junio 26"), and English keeps working everywhere. Durations and the price read the way your region writes them.
• Fixed. The working-day shading settings reset on every launch. They stay put now.

Under the hood, every word in the app now lives in one translation file, and a release cannot ship while a language is incomplete.

Updating from 0.1.8 or earlier? Those versions cannot update automatically. Download the current version once from trytimecal.com/downloads, drag it into Applications, and replace the old copy. Your license is safe. Updates after that install themselves as usual.

New in 0.3.0

TimeCal is in beta. This release is about getting around: finding things, jumping to dates, cycling views with one key, and menus that finally know where you clicked. It also shares TimeCal a little more easily, if you want it to.

• Search, from the toolbar. Press Command K, type, and hit Enter: the timeline flies to the first match and shows it close up, with every match highlighted. The arrows walk the rest. Search reads titles, notes, locations, and attendees, twenty years in either direction, so "expo" finds the expo.
• Type a date instead. "Jun 26", "March", or "2027" in the same box, then Enter, and you are there.
• Hit Spacebar. Each tap cycles the view through day, week, month, and year, keeping the moment you were looking at on the left. With Now following, it keeps following.
• Right-click everything. Events, calendars in the sidebar, and the canvas itself get context menus, and the menu bar gains an Event menu and a proper Help menu. Every menu item shows its key, and typing in any text field never triggers a hotkey again.
• Option-drag to copy. Hold Option while dragging any event to duplicate it, under any tool, even out of a read-only calendar and into one you can write to.
• Pinned cards are for reference. A pinned event now rests as a clean card: title, time, location, join links, a glimpse of the notes. Click it to edit. Invitations you did not organize read as exactly that, with the fields you cannot change faded and a note saying who can.
• Feel. Fast arrow taps keep navigating instead of waiting for the animation. Pressing N, T, or an arrow mid-scroll cancels the glide and goes. Dates outside this year say which year. And after an update, a short What's New card shows you the highlights, with an Invite a Friend button beside it, also in the Help menu, if you know someone who would like TimeCal while it is 20 dollars.

Under the hood, the code was reorganized for faster builds and the timeline renders its busiest views measurably quicker than 0.2.0.

Updating from 0.1.8 or earlier? Those versions cannot update automatically. Download the current version once from trytimecal.com/downloads, drag it into Applications, and replace the old copy. Your license is safe. Updates after that install themselves as usual.

New in 0.2.0

TimeCal is in beta. This release is about feel: editing that lands the instant you act, dragging that can never lose an event, and your notes where you can see them. It is numbered 0.2.0 rather than 0.1.10 because releases that add features now bump the middle number.

• Edits feel instant. Moving an event, stretching it, creating one, deleting one, duplicating one: the canvas shows it the moment you act, instead of pausing until your calendar account confirms. If a change is ever rejected, TimeCal puts things back where they were and tells you.
• Dropping onto a full slot is safe. Dropping an event onto a time another event occupies could show an error and leave an event misplaced. Fixed at the root: TimeCal now tracks events by who they are, not where they sit, so moving one never confuses anything that pointed at it.
• Notes on the timeline. When a row is tall enough, an event's block shows the start of its notes beneath the title and time, up to three quiet lines, inside the block or beside it. Outlook and Teams boilerplate is tidied out of the preview, and the note itself is never touched. Choose what blocks show in Settings, General: title, title and time, or title, time, and notes.
• Follow calendars from anywhere. New Calendar Subscription, in the sidebar's add menu, takes any webcal or ics feed link: team schedules, holidays, a league's fixtures. Calendar opens once to confirm, then the feed lives in TimeCal as a read-only lane.
• Menus that know their hotkeys. A new Tools menu shows Hand, Pointer, and Paint with their keys (H, V, B) and marks the active one. Jump to Today shows its key (T), and the Bookmarks and Library panels are in the View menu. About and Check for Updates moved to the application menu where Mac apps keep them, and the duplicates in File are gone.

Updating from 0.1.8 or earlier? Those versions cannot update automatically. Download the current version once from trytimecal.com/downloads, drag it into Applications, and replace the old copy. Your license is safe. Updates after that install themselves as usual.

New in 0.1.9

Updating from 0.1.8 or earlier? This one needs a manual download. TimeCal's internal app identifier changed in this release, which macOS treats as a different app, so the automatic updater cannot replace your copy and will fail if it tries. Download 0.1.9 from trytimecal.com/downloads, drag it into Applications, and replace the old copy. Your license is safe and you will not need to re-enter your key. This is a one time step: updates after this one install themselves as usual.

TimeCal is in beta and now for sale. This release adds two things worth having and fixes a handful of things that were quietly wrong.

• Your working day, shaded. Turn on "Shade hours outside the working day" in Settings, General, and the evenings and early mornings recede so your actual day is the bright band. Set the range to whatever yours is, including one that runs past midnight. Off by default, and it steps out of the way when you zoom out far enough that the bands would just be a wash.
• Hover the now-line for the time. Point at the red line anywhere along its height and the current time appears at its marker. Most useful when you are zoomed out far enough that the header no longer tells you.
• Make calendars on your Mac. "On My Mac" is now offered when you add a calendar, even if you do not have a local calendar yet, and it is the default. Local calendars sync nowhere and cannot disturb anything shared with you, which makes them the safe place to keep the calendars you are only keeping for yourself. Your other accounts are still in the list.
• The all-day band tidies itself. Deleting one of several stacked multi-day events left a gap where it had been until you scrolled or clicked something. The band now closes up on its own.
• Header labels give way. The pinned label at the left edge now slides aside as the next one arrives, instead of being covered part-way through.
• Notes placeholder lines up. The cursor in an empty notes field now sits exactly where "Add Notes" says typing will start.
• The right pointer in the guide. The Guide showed a different Pointer icon than the toolbar does.
• Licensing. License keys are now checked against TimeCal specifically rather than the store account they came from. Existing keys, including beta keys, are unaffected.
• Two prompts on first launch after upgrading. Because of the identifier change above, macOS asks permission to use your saved license and wants your keychain password for it. Choose Always Allow and it will not ask again. It will also ask for calendar access once more. Both are one time. If you do deny the keychain prompt, TimeCal now says so plainly instead of behaving as though you had never bought it.