Search & Filters
Find any event in seconds with text search, date ranges, and category/priority filters.
A small timetable is easy to scan. A bigger one — six months of meetings, birthdays, recurring chores — needs filtering. DeskCal gives you four ways to narrow down what you see, and they all combine.
The search bar
Type into the search bar at the top of your timetable to filter by title or notes. Matching is case-insensitive and matches anywhere in the text — "den" finds "dentist", "board" finds "Q3 board prep" and "skateboard lesson".
Empty the search bar to clear it.
Date range
Beside the search bar, the date-range filter lets you constrain by when:
- Pick a start date, an end date, or both. Events outside the range disappear from the table.
- Leave both blank to see everything (default).
- Setting only a start date shows everything from that date forward.
- Setting only an end date shows everything up to that date.
Date ranges are inclusive on both ends.
Categories
If you've created categories, you can filter to just one or several. Click the Categories filter to pick which to show. Events without a category are visible unless you've selected at least one — at which point only events tagged with one of your selected categories appear.
To clear category filters, deselect all of them or use the active-filter chips (below).
Priorities
Same idea as categories, but for the four priority levels (Low / Medium / High / Critical). Useful when you want to see only what's urgent — pick Critical alone to focus on the burning items.
Combining filters
Filters are AND logic: every selected filter must match for an event to show.
| Filter combination | What you see |
|---|---|
| Search "board" + range next 30 days | Events containing "board" happening in the next month |
| Categories Work + Priorities High, Critical | Work events that are High or Critical priority |
| Range last 30 days + Search "invoice" | Past month's events mentioning "invoice" |
This is how you build views without DeskCal needing a "saved view" feature: pick the combination of filters you want, glance at the result, and reach for the same combination next time.
Active filter chips
Whenever any filter is active, a row of chips appears just below the search bar showing what's currently filtering the table. Each chip has an × — click it to remove just that filter.
A "Clear all" link at the right of the chip row removes everything in one click.
Tips for finding things
- Birthdays are easy to find by category — set categories to Birthday and you get a chronological list of upcoming and past birthdays at a glance.
- Use the date range as a default working window. Set it to the next 30 days and forget about it; you'll see what's coming up without losing the long view (just clear the range when you need to look further out).
- Search works on notes too, not just titles. If you put a project code or client name in the notes, you can pull up everything related to it.
- Filtering is non-destructive. Filters change what you see, never what's stored. Clearing them brings everything back.
Where to go next
- Views & FAQ — when to switch between Table and Agenda, and answers to other common questions.