The almanac strip is one control, not five buttons: a granularity and an anchor date. It runs across the top of every page, and on any surface that lists things it acts as a filter — show me this period.

What it looks like

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Day, week, month, quarter and year, with the current level in heavier type. The arrows step back and forward at whatever level you are on. Tap a level to change it.

On the day page

Tap W36 and you zoom out to the week: what you wrote each day, gathered by day, with the tags that connect them. It is a reading view, not a planning grid. Month, quarter and year zoom out further. Each of these levels has a note of its own, so a thought that belongs to the week rather than to Tuesday has somewhere to go. Tap the day, or the Today button on the rail, to come home.

Everywhere else

The same strip sits on mail, feeds, the Bookshelf, bookings, tasks and posts. There it does not change the page; it narrows the list to that period:

• Bookshelf — the “read this period” band follows the strip; the library below it does not, so your shelf never empties because you moved to last week.
• Bookings — the roster fetches that range of days, capped at about six weeks.
• Tasks — the window widens to the period.
• Posts — filtered from what the app already holds.
• Mail and feeds — the pile is narrowed to letters and entries in the period.

Each surface decides what a period means for it. You only learn one control. Screens that once had their own little date pickers gave them up for this one.

Week numbers

Weeks are numbered, and the number is how a week is named everywhere — in the strip, in the Notebook (“Week of Aug 25”), and in the All Stars and All Picks pages for that week.

Tips

• On the day page the strip is navigation. On a list it is a filter. If a list looks empty, check the strip first — it may be pointing at last month.
• The week view is the quickest way to find something you wrote “some time recently” without knowing the day.