Calendar module
The calendar module allows you to store and view all your timed events (meeting, etc). The calendar also automatically displays your contact's birthdays.
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How to use
Create a event by clicking on the 
New button. All fields are optional except Subject and Start. If your event is occuring the whole day (or at no specific hour), you can check Takes all day.
Delete an event by selecting it (left mouse click) and pressing the 
Delete button.
You can drag and drop an event to another or to another day/time. You can edit an event by double-clicking it.
Recurring events
Events can be made recurrent. For example if you have a meeting every first Monday of the month, this would be a recurring even.
How to make a recurring event
Create or open an event as usual, and type-in relevant informations. Then click on the Make recurrent button. Choose which type of recurrence you prefer and fill-in relevant informations. You'll have to define a starting date for the recurrence, and if you need to, an end to it as well. Once recurrence is defined, validate and close ("Update" or "Create") the task window.
When you delete a recurring event, all occurrences of it (past and future) also disappear completely from your calendar. Recurring event have a 
icon displayed next to them.
Navigating the calendar
The calendar offers 4 different views that are selectable by clicking the matching button : Month, Week, Work week (5 days from monday to friday) and day. You can move forward to backward (i.e.: in week view clicking forward shows the following week) or change the date the view is centered around, using the navigation options on top.
Managing multiple calendars and calendar feeds
picoBeat supports multiple calendars. This is useful if you need for example to manage the usage of a meeting room, some sport competition, etc. Extra calendars can be created, edit or deleted using the Calendars drop-down menu. You can quickly toggle their display using the right-side panel.
Each calendar can be published online as an iCalendar feed: to protect your privacy you must specify (at creation time or in the calendar properties window) a specific keyword used in the feed address. Only people who know this address will be able to read the calendar, so this is up to you to make this address known or not. Published calendars can only be edited by you.
You can also follow calendars published online by other peoples using the Create new feed option in the Calendars menu. These calendars will work like your own except they are read-only.
Exporting, sharing
Sharing one or several event is done with the 
Share button and lets you email events as an iCalendar attachment, or check the publishing of your calendar as an iCalendar feed.
You can export events or whole calendars using the 
Export menu. Export formats include:
- iCalendar, the standard for calendaring software (this works on one or several events at once)
- XML