The Manager Calendar is the firm's master calendar: everything on the whole roster's plate in one grid, including real tour dates for any client whose artist workspace is married in.
FOUR VIEWS: Month, Week, Day, and Roster. Roster is a table rather than a grid. One row per client, so you can scan who is busy when. There is also an Events / Commission lens, so the same calendar can be read as "what is happening" or "what is earning".
ONE CONTROL ROW: lens, view, date arrows + Today, a Filters button, and Add event. That is the whole header. Filters opens a panel with the client picker and the FULL event-type list grouped by family (the old always-on pill row and type strip live in there now). The Filters button shows a count when something is narrowing the view, so a "where did my events go" moment is one glance. In dark mode the calendar sits on a lifted silvered surface so it stays readable on dim TVs and projectors; light mode stays bright.
MOVING AND EDITING: click a day to add, click an event to edit in a side panel. Nothing is dragged into place by accident.
NEEDS A LOOK TODAY (the Daily Brief) sits at the top and only appears when there is genuinely something to flag. It is plain computation, not AI, and it checks exactly six things:
1. Two events overlapping: a real double-booking.
2. A tight gap between back-to-back events.
3. A video-call event with no meeting link set yet.
4. Required attendees who have not RSVPd.
5. A deadline coming up (deadline-kind events).
6. An overdue action item.
It does NOT check travel time, wardrobe or kit. Those live on the Stylist calendar, which is a different product.
DEPENDS ON builds a chain between events. HMU before Wardrobe before Shoot. Open an event, then "Depends on", then "+ Add a dependency". When you move something that others hang off, ATOM opens a review-and-confirm panel showing what else has to move and a concrete proposed fix. It never silently moves anything for you.
SYNC: ATOM as the one source (the whole point): the Sync button opens both directions.
- Put this calendar into yours: one personal link. Subscribe once in Google (Settings, "Add calendar", "From URL"), Apple (one tap), or Outlook, and every firm event and tour date you're allowed to see stays current in your own calendar on its own. The link is YOURS: it carries exactly your access, nothing more, it re-checks your standing on every refresh, and Regenerate or Turn off kills the old link everywhere. Leave the firm and your subscribed calendar simply empties.
- Bring your calendars in: paste up to six outside calendar addresses (Google's "secret address in iCal format", an Apple public link, any webcal/https .ics). Each shows up as its own colored read-only layer in the grid, and in collisions, the Daily Brief, and Ask Calendar, so your outside life and the roster's world finally argue in ONE place instead of in the parking lot. Outside events never travel back out on your link, so nothing duplicates.
- Google, truly two-way (the full connection): hit Connect Google in the Sync panel and sign in once. Your Google calendars join the grid as their own layers, minutes fresh, with checkboxes for which ones show. Unlike a pasted link, those events are EDITABLE: open one, change the time, the title, the place or the notes, hit Save, and the change lands back in your real Google Calendar, same as if you had edited it there. Fields Google has no place for (type, client, flexibility, dependencies, attendees) stay hidden on Google events, on purpose. And it runs the other way too: the moment you connect, every meeting and real tour date you can see in ATOM starts appearing live in a brand new "ATOM" calendar inside your Google, separate from your own calendars so it never mixes in. Create it here, it shows up there. Edit it, it updates there. Delete it, it's gone there. That's the whole loop closed, not just half of it. A real tour date carries the VENUE's actual time, not a guess (a Nashville show pushes as Nashville time, always); a meeting with no venue carries wherever you actually were the moment you hit Save. And it isn't just fresh when you click something: Google tells ATOM the instant something changes on your side too, so an edit you make directly in Google shows up here the next time you open the calendar, not five minutes later. Disconnect any time; ATOM destroys its key to your account and tells Google to revoke it too.
ASK CALENDAR starts as one collapsed line above the calendar. Tap it to open the full bar. It answers four things, all from real computed data rather than a guess:
- When can I fit 30 minutes with X this week. Ranked real openings.
- What do we have on Thursday. The actual agenda.
- What can I move to make room. A concrete proposal you approve or ignore.
- What changed today: the change history.
It resolves a name against Manager > Contacts, so add people there (with company and role) or two Steves will collide. It will never claim to know a third party's availability, only yours.
ATTENDEES AND INVITES: an event can carry real attendees (name + email). "Send invites" emails each one a branded invite with time, place and notes.
WHY THE SMALL THINGS MATTER (the payoff, not the feature):
- The video link: paste it once on the event and it rides the invite email, the day view gets a one-tap Join button, and the Daily Brief flags any video call still missing its link, so nobody is asking "who has the Zoom" at call time.
- The day sheet on tour dates: clicking a married client's show date opens the REAL day sheet (schedule, hotel, notes) from the tour side, read-only. The answer to "what time are doors" without texting the TM.
- The Guide button on the calendar header reopens the "what this calendar does" card any time. It is not a one-shot intro.
- Split screen: open any event and the editor docks to the right while the grid stays live on the left (the nav rail tucks itself away for room, and springs back when you close the editor).
BOOKINGS FROM OUTSIDE: Manager > Scheduling Links gives someone a public page to book you without an email thread. A booking is never auto-confirmed. It lands in "Needs your confirmation" on that screen, and only becomes a real calendar event when you confirm it.
WHO SEES IT: this is the Manager account type, a management firm, not a tour workspace. A tour manager on a tour account does not have this screen; the tour calendar is a different thing for a different job.