The cut-in

The cut-in is Calendrop’s reminder. Instead of a banner in the corner, it covers every screen until you deal with the meeting.

When it appears

• A set number of minutes before the meeting starts — two by default. You can change it, and zero means at the start. See Settings.
• Still within a few minutes after the start, so a Mac that wakes from sleep just after a meeting began interrupts you too.
• Once per occurrence of a meeting. A meeting you joined or dismissed — from the cut-in or from the menu — does not cut in again, also after Calendrop is relaunched.

Some meetings never cut in: events you declined, all-day events and cancelled events. Two kinds cut in depending on your settings:

• Meetings without a video link, such as in-person ones, cut in only if you turn that on.
• Meetings you answered “maybe” to or have not answered cut in unless you turn that off. They are marked as such on the cut-in and in the menu. An event you see through several accounts counts as accepted when any of them accepted it.

What it covers

Every connected display, above full-screen apps, the Dock and the menu bar, on every Space. When you connect or disconnect a display, or change its resolution, the cut-in is rebuilt to cover exactly the screens there are now.

What it shows

Each meeting on the cut-in shows its title, time and countdown, its account and calendar, where it is, who else is invited and the start of its description.

The cut-in falls in from the top of the screen, like a blind coming down, unless you turn that off. With Reduce Motion on in System Settings, it fades in instead. Rebuilding it after a display change does not replay the entrance.

How it ends

Only by you. Escape and closing shortcuts such as ⌘W do nothing, and a cut-in that has appeared stays even after the meeting is well under way.

• Join opens the meeting’s video link in your default browser. It is the largest button on the cut-in. Google Meet links open as the account the meeting came from, even when your browser defaults to another Google account.
• OK takes the place of Join for a meeting without a video link. It only closes the cut-in.
• Return presses Join or OK when the cut-in shows a single meeting.
• Hold to dismiss is the small control in the corner. Press and hold it to settle every meeting on the cut-in without joining.

Meetings close together

One cut-in shows every meeting that is due, and every meeting that starts close to the first one or overlaps it, each with its own countdown and Join button. A conflict is visible at once instead of as a series of interruptions.

• Joining one meeting also settles the meetings that overlap it: you have chosen.
• A later meeting that does not overlap the one you joined cuts in again before it starts.
• Meetings that become due while a cut-in is showing join it.

Try it

To see the cut-in without waiting for a meeting, open Settings › Appearance, choose a sample under Preview — a single meeting, meetings at the same time, meetings close together, a meeting without a video link, or titles in many scripts — and press Try Full Screen. The trial uses sample meetings, which never count as real ones. Close it the same way: Join, or hold the corner control. A real meeting that comes due during a trial replaces it.