The ability to mark days and sequences of days in the year view is one of yCal's outstanding features. In order to use markers to mark days, you'll have to do three things:
yCal uses standard calendars for all its storage needs. When you mark days, these marks will thus be stored as specially tagged events. Consequently, yCal needs to know in which calendar to store these marks.
When first starting up yCal, the configuration assistant will guide you through the process of defining a calendar for marker storage. Later on, you may call the configuration assistant at any time from the
menu.You can also configure an appropriate calendar manually. Select the calendar on the left pane, Alt-double-click it (or right-click and select
from the context menu), and set "Interpret entries in this calendar as:" to . Note that a little marker icon will show up right to the calendar name on the left pane.Please note, however, that other events you may have had in this calendar will not show up anymore (don't worry — they won't be deleted). It is thus a wise decision to have one calendar specifically configured for marker storage only. You can add local calendars (stored on your local machine) from within yCal (e.g., by clicking read here on why you can't do this from within yCal).
from the menu), however, to add a calendar hosted on a remote server, please use Apple's iCal or Calendar app instead (You typically set up markers for a specific purpose: to mark days of vacation, days of traveling, days of time off, important family events, or the like. So you'll most likely have multiple markers that you choose to show in different colors and styles.
When first starting up yCal, the configuration assistant will guide you through the process of defining one first marker. Later on, you may add additional markers by choosing
from the menu (or clicking in the lower left window corner).In the marker configuration sheet, you can set the marker's color and may choose one of nine available display styles. In addition, you can specify the calendar that will be used to store the marks (note that only calendars which have previously been configured for marker storage are available here).
In order to mark days, you first need to select them in the
year view. You select a single day by clicking on it, or select
a sequence of days by clicking and dragging. Alternatively, you
can specify a sequence of days by clicking the first day
and then Shift-clicking the last day in that sequence, or
using Shift together with the arrow keys on the keyboard.
If you -click,
you can select several non-consecutive days. Pressing the
ESC key cancels your selection.
Once you selected the days to mark, right-click and choose
from the context menu. In a sub-menu, you'll find all the markers you've configured. If you had already applied several markers, you may also use this menu to selectively un-mark (choosing a marker that had already been applied removes these markings).