Cutting through the noise

Zoom levels

Zoom levels indicate the significance of events in different views

When you increase the number of days in your view, you also increase the amount of information on the screen. Zoom levels help you manage this volume of data by hiding events that aren’t important for the current context.

For instance, if you are looking at a whole year, you don’t need to see minor events months in the future. On the other hand, your mom’s 70th birthday is an important event that you may want to see years ahead. Big party!

With zoom levels turned on, minor events drop off the timeline when you zoom out.

Set a minor appointment’s zoom level to 3 months and your mum’s big birthday to 10 years. Then, when you look at a date range spanning 3 months or less, the minor appointment and your mum’s birthday will show. However, increase the date range to more than 3 months; only the birthday will show.

Zoom level filtering

Zoom level filtering

Toggle zoom level filtering from the filter menu. If zoom level filtering is turned off, then the zoom level field in each event is ignored.

Set a zoom level for an event

Add or edit an event and see the zoom level field at the bottom of the event form.

Set the default zoom level on new or synced events

  1. Click Settings under the overflow menu on the top far right of the navigation
  2. Select the desired default significance

This is now the default option for new and synced events.