Calendar and My Schedule

Calendar brings your Mac’s calendar events, Nextcloud tasks with due dates and media releases into one workspace. Open the full calendar to plan your week, or use My Schedule for a compact list of upcoming events.

Two global shortcuts

Shortcut	Opens
⌃⌥⌘C	Calendar, the full calendar in a floating window
⌃⌥⌘J	My Schedule, a compact list of the next 30 days

Hold Control + Option + Command, then press C or J. These work from any application while Pocket Homelab is running, even with its main window closed. Opening My Schedule does not change the view selected in the main Calendar workspace.

In Settings → Quick Actions → From any application, turn on Enable system-wide capture shortcuts. Click either shortcut’s key caps to change it, or use Open beside it. If another app already owns the combination, choose another or press Retry shortcuts. These are registered system hotkeys; they do not require Accessibility permission or monitor your typing.

Your calendar accounts

Allow Calendar access when prompted to show events from accounts set up in macOS Calendar. Use the calendar filter to choose what appears. Nextcloud tasks and media releases come from the services you have configured.

Switch between Day, Week, Month, Agenda and Schedule. Search for an event, use Today to return to the current date, or browse with the previous and next controls. The Refresh button beside search reloads calendar events, tasks and releases.

You can create and edit personal events, drag them to another time, resize their duration and delete them. For recurring events, choose which occurrence to change. Media releases open their title details.

My Schedule

The floating schedule groups events by day and shows what is next, with calendar colours, meeting links, attendee counts and recurring-event indicators. Filter by title or calendar to narrow the list.

Key	Action
↑ / ↓	Select the previous / next event
⌘K / ⌘J	Select the previous / next event while the list has focus
Return	Open the selected event, or its camera check when a meeting can be joined

The Command shortcuts above are local list controls, distinct from the global shortcuts that open the windows. Scrolling behaves like a regular list; keyboard navigation scrolls only enough to reveal the selected row.

A note about an event

When your Nextcloud has the Notes app, an event’s detail has a Note button, and the right-click menu Add a Note: the text is written inside the detail, no sheet, and added as a bullet with the time to one note per event occurrence, <event> – <day> in the Calendar events folder (Settings → Notes → Folders). See Nextcloud Notes.

Check your camera before joining

Choose Join on a meeting to open a camera preview. It opens only when you choose to join, never automatically before an event. Allow Camera access when prompted. The preview uses no microphone and records no video.

Use the back arrow to return to the calendar, or open Actions with ⌘K:

Action	Shortcut
Join Meeting	Return
Copy Photo to Clipboard	⌘Return
Toggle Mirroring	⌥⌘Return
Switch Camera	⇧⌘S
Enable / Disable Shutter Sound	Actions menu

Search the actions, select with ↑ and ↓, and press Return to run one. Switch Camera lists available built-in, external and Continuity cameras. Copy Photo captures a still to the clipboard only when requested; the app does not save a photo file or keep a photo history. A brief message confirms actions.

Esc or Backspace goes back through the camera picker, Actions and preview. In a search field, Backspace deletes the text first.

Join the meeting

Press Join Meeting when ready. Pocket Homelab releases the camera and opens the meeting link, preferring the installed Microsoft Teams or Zoom app for supported links. Google Meet and other web meetings open in your browser; a web link is also the fallback when the native app is unavailable.

After a successful handoff, the camera preview and floating Calendar or My Schedule window close. Joining from the main Calendar workspace closes the preview and leaves the workspace open.