How do I give a calendar a short name?

Goal

Give a calendar a word you say, so Nova reads the right calendar and calls it by that name.

Before you start

• Nova may access Calendars. See Which macOS permissions does Nova need?
• Expert view. The switch is in How do I switch between Simple and Expert?

Steps

1. Settings, Calendar & briefing, the Aliases tab. The card is Calendar aliases.
2. One line per link: Alias = calendar name. On the left is the word you say. On the right is the calendar’s name as it appears in the Calendar app.
3. One alias may point to several calendars: Alias = Calendar A, Calendar B. Several aliases may point to the same calendar.
4. Ask at the avatar with the short name. Nova then reads the calendars behind the alias.
5. In the answer Nova calls the calendar by its alias. A calendar named just Calendar is called Work calendar without an alias.
6. Nothing is written here. A new event still comes as a card, see How do I add or move an event?

Example

Enter the line Family = Family-Cal, birthdays. Then: “What’s on for Family this weekend?”

Common problems

• Simple does not show the Aliases tab.
• If one line has no =, Nova does not take the list and keeps the old one.
• Nova reads at most 10 calendars at once.
• Calendars from Morgen have their own list, Morgen calendar aliases (colleague names), in the Advanced tab.