🌍 See your family’s public holidays on the planner

Why this matters

Public holidays are the days school is usually closed and many workplaces shut. Having them right there on the planner makes it easy to see when the term is interrupted, line up childcare, or plan a trip around a long weekend.

Turning it on

You can pick your country during the first-run setup (step 1, next to the currency picker), or any time afterwards in Settings → Country & Holidays. Choose your country from the list and that’s it — holidays appear on the planner straight away.

What you’ll see

• On the month view: the holiday’s day cell gets a soft clay-coloured background and a little italic label — e.g. “Memorial Day (US)”, “Vesak Day (SG)”.
• On the week view: the day’s header is tinted, with the holiday name in the all-day row.
• On the day view and the day agenda: a small banner at the top — “Vesak Day (SG) — public holiday”.
• Upcoming holidays in the next 30 days also show in the planner’s sidebar.

Tap a holiday anywhere it appears to see a short detail card with the date, the country, and a note about what it usually means.

Changing or turning it off

In Settings → Country & Holidays you can pick a different country, or choose Not set to turn the feature off entirely. There’s also a Show public holidays on the planner toggle so you can hide them without forgetting which country you picked.

Good to know

• It’s display-only — holidays never get added to your calendar, and you can’t edit or delete one. Deleting a real activity that happens to fall on a holiday doesn’t touch the holiday marker.
• Observance varies. “Work and school are probably off” is the typical case, not a guarantee — it depends on your region, sector, and employer. Please check.
• National holidays only, for now. State, province, and other regional holidays aren’t included yet.
• Public holidays only. Bank-only days and purely ceremonial “observance” days aren’t shown.
• Holiday names are shown in English (a local-language name appears in the detail card where we have one).
• If no holidays appear for your country, the dataset doesn’t cover it yet — nothing breaks, you just won’t see any.
• A holiday during a trip keeps the trip’s colour on the calendar, but the holiday label still appears.