This topic enables you to man­age all the infor­ma­tion related to the events you attend and host, the places you like to go, and the out­ings you want to take.

Key fea­tures of the Events topic

• abil­ity to define events you plan to attend, includ­ing the host, start and end dates, loca­tion, and shop­ping items
• abil­ity to define events you are host­ing, includ­ing the start and end dates, loca­tion, invi­tees, tasks, shop­ping items, and services
• abil­ity to track RSVPs from invi­tees for events you are hosting
• auto­matic reminders through inte­gra­tion with your device’s Calendar
• touch­points to the Peo­ple + Ser­vices and Travel + Places topics

Using Events touchpoints

Touch­points allow rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion to be shared seam­lessly between Events and the Peo­ple + Ser­vices and Travel + Places top­ics. Exam­ple: if you have out­ings you want to plan as part of a trip you are tak­ing, you can define that out­ing directly from within Travel + Places and it will show up as an out­ing in Events. Or, if a ser­vice provider for one of your events already exists in Peo­ple + Ser­vices, you can link to them directly, elim­i­nat­ing the need to re-enter their information.

How do I use Events?

The Events topic view pro­vides these sections:

• Event Cal­en­dar — a fil­ter­able view of all events defined in LifeTopix
• Occa­sion Reminders — reminders you have defined in Life­Topix for occa­sions you want to remember
• Appoint­ments — appoint­ments you have defined in LifeTopix
• Reminders — reminders you have defined in LifeTopix
• All Events — all events defined includ­ing those hosted by you and those hosted by some­one else
• Cat­e­gories for Events

Event Cal­en­dar

To add an event to the cal­en­dar, tap  and tap either Attend­ing Event or Host­ing Event, depend­ing on the selec­tion that’s appro­pri­ate for the occasion.

To view all the events defined in Life­Topix in a fil­ter­able cal­en­dar view, tap Event Calendar.

Tap Day to view all events for a given day. This view loads today’s date by default. Tap  to advance to the next day’s view or tap  to go to the pre­vi­ous day’s view.

Tap Month to view all events for a given month. This view loads the cur­rent month by default. Tap  to advance to the next month’s view or tap  to go back to the pre­vi­ous month’s view. In this view, dates for which event data exists will have a “.” in them. Tap on a date in the cal­en­dar to have that date’s data dis­played in the view.

Tap Year to view all events for a given year. This view loads the cur­rent year by default. Tap  to advance to the next year’s view or tap  to go back to the pre­vi­ous year’s view. In this view, dates for which event data exists will have a “.” in them. Tap on a date in the cal­en­dar to have that date’s data dis­played in the view.

From the Day, Month, or Year view, you can tap Today to bring the cur­rent view to today’s date.

Tap Fil­ter to be able to spec­ify whether or not to include inac­tive events. Events which have no start date set or for which the start date is in the past are con­sid­ered inac­tive; all other events are con­sid­ered active.

Attend­ing Events and Host­ing Events

When host­ing an event, you can des­ig­nate co-hosts from your device’s con­tact list. If you are attend­ing an event, you can set a host. Whether you are host­ing or attend­ing an event, you can asso­ciate tasks, check­lists, appoint­ments, reminders, book­marks, files, audio, pho­tos, videos, notes, expenses, ser­vices, and shop­ping items.

Occa­sion Reminders

Tap Occa­sion Reminders to go to its view.

Tap  in the title bar to add a new occa­sion reminder.

Tap Day to view all occa­sion reminders for a given day. This view loads today’s date by default. Tap  to advance to the next day’s view or tap  to go to the pre­vi­ous day’s view.

Tap Month to view all occa­sion reminders for a given month. This view loads the cur­rent month by default. Tap  to advance to the next month’s view or tap  to go back to the pre­vi­ous month’s view. In this view, dates for which occa­sion reminders exist will have a “.” in them. Tap on a date in the cal­en­dar to have that date’s data dis­played in the view.

Tap Year to view a table of all occa­sion reminders for a given year. This view loads with today’s date vis­i­ble — scroll down to view entries in the future or scroll up to view entries in the past. Tap  to advance to the next year’s view or tap  to go to the pre­vi­ous year’s view.

From the Year, Day, or Month view, tap Today to bring the cur­rent view to today’s date.

Tap Fil­ter to be able to spec­ify whether or not to include inac­tive occa­sion reminders. Occa­sion reminders which have no start date set or for which the start date is in the past are con­sid­ered inac­tive; all other occa­sion reminders are con­sid­ered active.

Appoint­ments

Tap Appoint­ments to dis­play appoint­ments defined in Life­Topix. You can fil­ter appoint­ments by: All, Active, Undated, and Past by using the but­tons at the top of the view. Refer to Com­mon Fea­tures help to learn about repeat func­tion­al­ity for appointments.

Reminders

Tap Reminders to dis­play reminders defined in Life­Topix, arranged in a list view sorted by date. The sum­mary for each reminder shows its mes­sage along with its date and time. You can fil­ter reminders by: All, Active, and Past by using the but­tons at the top of the view.

All Events

Tap All Events to go to its view. If you have not cre­ated events to attend or to host, help appears in order to get you started. If you have cre­ated events to attend or to host, each is listed with sum­mary text show­ing you, at-a-glance, the title, loca­tion, and start date and time of the event.

Events in this view are sorted by event start date by default. Tap Sort to alter­nate between sort­ing ser­vices by date mod­i­fied (with the most recently mod­i­fied one first), alpha­bet­i­cally by title, and by event start date. Each event includes the event’s name; its loca­tion; and either its update time, cat­e­gory, or start date, depend­ing on which sort mode is cur­rently active. To edit a event, tap it, mod­ify the set­tings, and tap Save. To delete a event, tap it and then tap  at the bot­tom of the view.

To define a new host­ing or attend­ing event from the Events view or from the All Events view, tap  and select the appro­pri­ate event from the action panel that appears.

Cat­e­gories for Events

Cat­e­gories are avail­able for use with events. You can cre­ate, mod­ify, hide, or delete cat­e­gories via Life­Topix Set­tings or directly from the Cat­e­gories for Events sec­tion by tap­ping the Edit but­ton. When an events cat­e­gory is deleted, it is com­pletely removed from Life­Topix. When an events cat­e­gory is hid­den, it no longer appears in the Cat­e­gories for Events sec­tion, but it remains defined in Life­Topix and is still avail­able in the cat­e­gory list when you are defin­ing a new event. Note that events cat­e­gories that are in use or serve as touch­points to another topic can­not be deleted or hidden.

To cre­ate a new events cat­e­gory, go to the Quick Menu and tap , and then tap Man­age Cat­e­gories. Tap Events in the list.

To mark an Events cat­e­gory hid­den, or to mod­ify its name or descrip­tion, tap the category’s , then tap OFF for to tog­gle it to ON.

To delete an Events cat­e­gory, swipe to delete in the Man­age Cat­e­gories view.

Tap a cat­e­gory in the Cat­e­gories for Events sec­tion to go to the events view for that cat­e­gory. If there are no events and no sub­cat­e­gories defined in that cat­e­gory, help appears in order to get you started. If there are events defined in that cat­e­gory, they are all shown in a sec­tion whose behav­ior is described in the All Events sec­tion above. If there are sub­cat­e­gories defined in that cat­e­gory, they are all shown in a sec­tion whose behav­ior is described imme­di­ately above.