When you add something to your calendar in Aftertone, you have three options: task, event, or slot. They look similar but behave differently.

Tasks

A task is work you are committing to complete. It has a title, a time block, and optionally a project, tags, notes, and subtasks. Tasks appear in your inbox until you give them a time block, and they show up in your weekly report as completed work. When you are in Focus Mode, Aftertone sequences through your tasks in order — one at a time, with your full attention on each one.

Use tasks for anything you are personally responsible for doing: writing, building, reviewing, calling, preparing. If it is work that requires your focused effort and you want it tracked in your weekly report, it is a task.

Events

An event is something happening at a fixed time that you are attending, not executing. Meetings, calls, interviews, appointments. Events appear on your calendar and sync with Google Calendar two ways. They do not appear in your task inbox and they are not sequenced in Focus Mode — Aftertone treats them as fixed commitments around which your tasks are planned.

When an event has a meeting link — a Google Meet, Zoom, or Teams URL — you can join directly from Aftertone without switching apps. Click the event in your calendar and the join button appears. You stay in Aftertone until the moment the meeting starts.

💡 Tip — Google Calendar events sync into Aftertone automatically. You do not need to recreate your meetings as events in Aftertone — they arrive when you connect your calendar.

Slots

A slot is protected time with no specific task attached. Use it to block time for a category of work — deep work, admin, email processing, thinking time — without committing to a specific task in advance. Slots appear on your calendar and in Google Calendar, so others can see your time is taken.

Which one to use

• Something you are doing yourself that requires focus and should show in your weekly report: task

• A meeting, call, or appointment at a fixed time: event

• Protected time for a type of work where the specific tasks are decided in the moment: slot

👉 Try it now — Open the Schedule Now bar with Option Space and look at the three type options. Add one of each to your calendar today — a task for your most important piece of work, an event for a meeting you have coming up, and a slot for any protected time you need. See how each one appears in the Calendar view.