View Menu Customization

Mylio allows for customization in Decade view, Year view, and Day view. There are no View customizations in Month view.

1. Sort Ascending – Sorts your photos with the newest date at the bottom.
2. Sort Descending – Sorts your photos with the newest date at the top.
3. Start Slideshow – Starts a slideshow with the photos currently being viewed.

Calendar View Customizations

Mylio also allows for general customization of your Life Calendar™. Here is how:

1. Open Mylio and select Settings from the View menu.
2. Select Calendar
3. Options include…
   1. Feature Photo Ranking – here you can see, and change, the heuristics of how Mylio decides what photos should be featured at covers of your Life Calendar™.
   2. Number of event bars to display – how many events should be shown on the cover of your image
   3. Hide events longer than – if an event is above a specified threshold, it won’t be shown on the calendar. This is customizable for Decade, Year, and Month view.

Categories Customizations

Mylio allows you to easily customize your categories to different colors, names, or order. You can use the Filterbar while in Calendar view to show/hide any events of specific categories too.

1. Select Settings from the View menu.
2. Select General.
3. Select Categories begin editing your Event Categories
   • Make new Categories using the Add New button
   • Remove any unwanted ones using the “X” to the right
   • Use the handles on the left to prioritize the order of categories
   • Click on the text of existing category names to edit them.

Creating Events Automatically

Mylio can automatically create events by linking your digital calendars. To easily create events in Mylio, please see this article.

Creating Events Manually

1. Open Calendar view by selecting Calendar in the view selector.
2. Locate and select the day, month, or year you wish to add an event to. It should be highlighted in blue.
3. Open the Info section of the Details panel.
4. Select the plus sign in the Info section of the Details panel, next to “EVENTS” to begin creating a new event.
5. The event creation dialog box will open. Here you can add:
   • Cover photo – set the cover photo for this event by clicking the pencil in the top left
   • From / To – the date (or range of dates) that this event took place.
   • Title – the name of your event as displayed in the calendar.
   • Description – a description of the event.
   • Categories – which category this event belongs to for easier filtering.
   • Priority – have the cover of this folder display as the event cover over other events of the same Year, Month, or Day in Calendar view. Life events are the highest priority, even over Events of the year.
   • Autoplay slideshow – Selecting the event from the Calendar will automatically start a slideshow of the event.
   • Scoped by Date or Folder – chose for your event to populate photos from the date(s) above or select a folder to use photos from
6. Select Save to save and create the event.
7. Mylio will display the bar for your event across your date range, displaying the event name, length, and category.

Once an event has been created, you can edit its details at any time. Here is how:

Editing Events from Calendar View

1. Select Calendar from the View selector to open Calendar view.
2. Open the Info section of the Details panel.
3. Select the day, month, or year that contains the event that you wish to edit.
4. Mylio will display all events for the selected date range in the Info section of the Details panel. Select the event you wish to edit.
5. Select Edit Event from the dialog.
   
6. Within the Event dialog, you can edit the event’s title, categories, priority relevant dates, and description.
7. Events can additionally be scoped by a specific Date(s) or a Folder. Please know that events scoped by a Folder must have their categories edited in Folder view.

Viewing the events that you have created is easy in Calendar view.

Viewing Events from Calendar View

1. Select Calendar from the View Selector to open the calendar.
2. Locate the date that contains the event you wish to view.
3. Select the bar containing your event’s name to go to that event.

You can also see a list of all events that happen within the specific selected day, month, or year by:

1. Select Calendar from the View selector.
2. Open the Info section of the Details panel.
3. Select the day, month, or year you wish to display all events for.
4. Events will be listed within the Info section of the Details panel. Selecting this displays four options:
   1. See Photos and Files in this Event – displays all media for this selected event.
   2. Play Slideshow – Plays a slideshow containing all media in the event.
   3. Edit Event – Edit the parameters of the selected event (as seen above).
   4. Delete – deletes the event from the calendar but does not delete any media that was in the event
   5. Priority –have the cover of this folder display as the event cover over other events of the same Year, Month, or Day in Calendar view. Life events are the highest priority, even over Events of the year.