Complete a Time Block
When you finish a time block, mark it as complete. Completed blocks show what you have done today, and a day where every block is complete counts as a cleared day.
Mark a Time Block as Complete
- Find the time block on the timeline.
- Tap the checkbox on the time block.
The checkbox fills with a checkmark, and the title is struck through and dimmed.
Undo a completion
- Tap the checkbox again to mark the time block as not complete.
- You can also undo the change with the three-finger undo gesture, or with ⌘Z on a keyboard. ⇧⌘Z redoes it. In the Edit menu, the action is named Mark as Done or Mark as Not Done.
The Progress Bar
The coloured bar on the left of each time block, which holds its icon, shows how much of the block's time is left:
- Before the block starts, the bar is full.
- While the block is running, the bar empties from the top as time passes.
- After the block ends, the bar is empty.
The bar follows the clock, not completion. Marking a block complete doesn't change the bar, and a block can be complete before its time is over.
Subtasks and Completion
If a time block has subtasks, you can complete them one by one in the editor. When you save the time block with every subtask completed, Align also marks the time block as complete.
- Marking the time block complete on the timeline doesn't complete its subtasks.
- Marking it as not complete doesn't clear its completed subtasks.
See Subtasks for how to add and complete subtasks.
Repeating Time Blocks
Completion is tracked per occurrence. When you complete one occurrence of a repeating time block, the other occurrences in the series stay as they are. Each day's occurrence has its own checkbox, and the same applies to the subtasks of each occurrence.
Celebrations
Align celebrates two milestones with a short confetti animation and a message:
- Your first time block is done!: the first time you complete a time block.
- Day cleared! Every time block is done.: when you complete the last of today's time blocks, so that every time block that starts today is complete. All-day events don't count. Completing blocks on a past or future day doesn't trigger it. A cleared day is celebrated at most once per day.
Celebrations play when you mark a time block complete with its checkbox on the timeline. With Reduce Motion turned on, a few still confetti pieces fade in and out instead of the animation.
Complete from the Timeline Widget
The Timeline widget on your Home Screen shows your current and upcoming time blocks, each with a checkbox.
- Tap the checkbox on a time block in the widget.
- The time block is marked as complete, the same as on the timeline in the app.
Tap the checkbox again to mark the time block as not complete. The Daily progress widget updates to show the change. Completing a block from the widget doesn't play a celebration.
How Completion Is Stored
Completion is stored in Align's own data, not in the calendar event. Other calendar apps don't show a time block as complete.
Align's data syncs through iCloud, so completed time blocks and completed subtasks appear on your other devices signed in to the same iCloud account.
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