Natural Language event timing

Hour by Hour is designed to let you quickly jot down an agenda for your day without fussing with pickers or menus. The fastest way to capture your schedule is simply to write the timing of an event in plain English:

11am coffee with Lisa

...and Hour by Hour will understand, and make a suggestion:

...which you can then accept:

As you type, we use Apple Intelligence to suggest an appropriate icon for your event, so your schedule becomes easier to scan at a glance.

The following is a full list of examples of what Hour by Hour understands:

Simple times

Train at 9am

In the case of ambiguous hours, it will try to choose the most appropriate one given the context:

Walk in the park at 10

You can use both . and : within the time:

2.30pm Meet Bob

14:00 Coffee

As well as words such as:

Lunch at noon

Go to the gym @ midday

You can also use "military" time:

Meet Guinan at 1500 in the mess

Time ranges and durations

9am - 10am

2:30pm to 4pm

3-4pm Pancakes!

Lunch at 2 for an hour

20 min break at 3

Drinks for 1 hour at 9

Note that the following works but you'll also need to enter a start time for it to make sense!

Work till 5

Relative times

Learn more about relative times here.

Arrive half an hour later

After 2 hours - take a break

20 minutes earlier - set off

Wake up 1 hr before

Travel

Splits up into a start and end event with the location names:

2pm Leicester to Edinburgh at 6pm

13.30 London Heathrow - San Francisco 17:00