The calendar

The calendar is the heart of Dustav. It's a shared household schedule the agent keeps for you — you put things on it by talking, it keeps the details straight, and it reaches out to remind you before they matter. If you set up a household, it's one calendar everyone shares.

Just tell it

The main way things get on the calendar is that you say them, in plain words:

• "Dentist Thursday at 3."
• "Parent-teacher night is the 12th, 6:30 to 8."
• "Add the World Cup knockout games in my timezone." — it looks up the schedule, converts the kickoffs, and adds them.

You don't pick a date from a grid or fill in a form (though you can — see below). You describe it the way you'd tell a person, and the agent resolves the date, sets a sensible reminder, and confirms.

Snap a photo

The tedious one — a whole season or school year at once — is a photo. Hand Dustav a picture of the game schedule, the camp calendar, a birthday invite, the sheet off the fridge, and it reads every date straight onto the calendar. (Photo input is a capability your provider handles; if it's turned off for you, Dustav will say so rather than guess.)

Always give it a moment to read the dates back to you, and check anything that was cut off or ambiguous in the photo.

Reminders

Every event gets a reminder by default — about an hour before a timed event, the morning of an all-day one. When the reminder comes due, Dustav reaches out: in the app, and by email or push if you've turned those on (it never reaches out on its own, only when a reminder you set comes due). You can change the lead time just by asking — "remind me the day before" — or turn a reminder off.

Repeats

Anything that recurs — a birthday, rent, a standing practice — is one repeating event, not a hundred copies. Say "every year," "every month," "every Monday," and Dustav sets it to repeat from that date forward. A standing schedule is usually worth remembering as a fact too, so it often lands in both places (see what Dustav remembers).

Changing and cancelling

To change or cancel something, describe it — "move the dentist to Friday," "cancel Saturday's game." You never need an id or an exact title; the agent finds the event you mean, and if two things match, it asks which. You can also open the calendar view and edit or delete events directly yourself — the agent and you are editing the same calendar, so it stays in sync either way.

Categories

Events can carry a category — birthdays, school, bills, a specific trip — which groups and colours them. Dustav reuses the categories you already have rather than coining near-duplicates, so a batch stays one tidy group. Ask it to restyle or rename a category any time.

It's the household's calendar

In a family, this is one shared schedule: everyone sees the same events, and a reminder fans out to every member on the channels they've each turned on. What's shared and what's private is covered in shared facts & privacy.