Do yourself a favour - manage your deadlines with the Capable for Confluence Calendar feature and avoid being know as ‘the guy who’s always late'.

Let’s turn the clocks back to 2022

Me and timekeeping haven’t always got along. It was in-fact a running joke in a previous company that I was always late. ‘'Running’' being the operative word here, as I was often seen frantically running across the square to the office door with seconds to spare. I was only ever late by 5 minutes max (I still say, whenever the topic comes up with friends from that office) but that wasn’t the point, I was known for being late. The only technique I was using to combat my lateness was the 'Naruto run', now I no longer need to, thanks to the use of Capable for Confluence.

Yes! but how do you add dates to your pages?

Okay, I’m on it! In a rush, are we? Maybe try a new timekeeping tool The first step to using the calendar is to add dates to your pages. This can be done by simply typing // when creating or updating a page. This will automatically add the date to the page, marking it on the calendar in the process. These can be added as checklists which can be ticked off as they are completed or simply as bullet points. You can also tag members of your team in the page so that the entry also appears in their calendar too. Let’s take a look at what this look like on a Confluence page:

I’m following this method with every blog post now, above every draft I set myself draft completion, review and publication deadlines in a check list format with the dates attached. Not only does this keep the deadline right there in front of me at all times for me to check off on completion but it also allows me to view these deadlines in my Calendar as well as tag team members to hold me accountable.

But there’s so much on my Calendar! How do I only show certain dates?

Okay okay I’m getting to that! I have two bosses in my life at the moment, one being Jack, the founder of Capable and the other being my girlfriend. Rhetorically speaking I could create a page with all of the important tasks that my girlfriend has given me - take the car to get serviced, pick up the groceries, throw out my anime figurine collection - but then filter my calendar to that specific page.

I could also put the ‘throw out my anime figurine collection’ task onto a separate page entitled ‘not so important’, effectively filtering this out of my calendar entirely. Alternatively I could filter the calendar so that it shows different date entries as different colours depending on the page that they’ve been written in.

You can personalize your calendar like this by using this display panel:

Here are some more examples of different calendar views:

Day view:

Week view:

Year view:

Agenda view:

Last but not least we have the Calendar Macro which we can insert into any page to give a full overview of dates from within the Confluence page. This is perfect for showing a roadmap and allows users to visualize the dates in a clearer form from with the document itself. To insert the calendar macro simply type // into the page before typing out ‘capable calendar’, when you will see the feature in the drop down menu, simply select it and voila - you now have a calendar in your page.

Calendar view:

So in this article (finished on time might I add) we’ve explored the calendar dashboard, shown how to add dates to pages, filter calendar results and change the view options from the calendar as well how to insert the Capable Calendar macro into a page. Finally a cure for lateness that you can rely on! Try Capable for Confluence today for free and see how it will transform your time keeping.