This application contains three methods for obtaining help at any time.
Context Sensitive Help is available for each control within the application. When focused upon a control, press Insert+F1 (or Caps Lock+F1) if using the JAWS laptop layout. An Edit Field is available containing the help information. It will briefly describe the purpose of the focused control together with keystrokes you can use.
Press the Arrow keys to read the help and press Escape to cancel. This will return you back to the control which previously had focus.
Press Control+Shift+C or Insert+H to open Leasey Command Centre.
The dialog contains:
Press the Tab key to move through the controls.
Focus starts in the Command Edit Field. Type part of a command name, shortcut, or related word to filter the list.
If the Command Edit Field is empty, pressing Tab moves to the Matching commands list and shows all available commands. If you have typed text into the Edit Field, the list shows only commands matching the search term.
Use Up and Down Arrow to move through the list. You will hear the command name, followed by the corresponding shortcut key. The list therefore serves two purposes. You can press Enter on a command to carry it out, and you can learn the shortcut key for quicker access next time you need to use it.
Press Control+Shift+I for Where Am I. You will receive a succinct summary of where you are located within the focused application.
Leasey Diary and Leasey Tasks are designed to help you keep track of time-based information.
Leasey Diary is for appointments and events. These are things which happen at a particular date and time, such as a meeting, medical appointment, radio show, training session, birthday reminder or telephone call.
Leasey Tasks is for things you need to do. A task may have a due date, priority, category, percentage complete, reminder, notes or an attachment, but it is not necessarily an appointment.
The two features work well together because life is not only made up of calendar entries. Sometimes you need to be somewhere. Sometimes you need to remember to do something. Leasey gives you a way to manage both.
Collectively, they are referred to as Leasey Diary. That is the name of the application.
To start Leasey Diary, press the Leasey Key then Control+Shift+Y.
The main Leasey Diary screen appears. You can press the Tab key to move through the controls.
Leasey Diary itself is built around three main views:
You can move between these views with:
or by selecting the appropriate Radio Buttons from the main Leasey Diary screen. Note that the Radio Button group contains four items, the fourth being Leasey Tasks. This is described in a later section of this document.
When you launch Leasey Diary, it always starts at today's date, which you can return to by pressing Alt+T.
One of the nicest features of Leasey Diary is that JAWS announces useful information automatically as you move around. When you switch to a different view, JAWS speaks the number of appointments in that period. For example, when you move to Day view, Week view or Month view, you are told how many appointments are in the selected day, week or month.
If you use Go to Date with Control+G and move to another date, JAWS also announces the number of appointments for that day automatically. Similarly, if you move through the days, weeks or months manually by selecting them from the provided Combo Box, JAWS will always announce the number of appointments for the selected range. This makes it much easier to check quickly how busy a date is without having to explore the screen manually.
The main window contains date and view controls and the appointments list.
You can press Tab to move through the application systematically. Listen to the keystrokes JAWS announces as they will speed up navigation. For example, Alt+D will focus upon the day picker combo box. Alt+L moves focus straight to the list of appointments for a given day, week or month. If focus is on one of the main date controls for the current view, such as the day, week or month combo box, pressing Enter moves directly into the appointments list for that selection. If focus is in the appointments list, pressing Escape moves back to the first date control for the current view.
You can choose between Day View, Week View or Month View.
This is by far the easiest view to work with.
Step 1. Press Alt+1 to select Day View.
Step 2. Press Tab.
Step 3. You are now on the first of three combo boxes. The first combo box allows you to move through the days. Press Up or Down Arrow to move through them. As you do so, JAWS announces the day of the week, the date and how many appointments there are, such as "Tuesday 23 June, 1 appointment".
Step 4. Press Tab to reach the Month combo box.
Step 5. Press Up or Down Arrow keys to move through the months from January to December.
Step 6. Press Tab to reach the Year Combo Box.
Step 7. Select the year from 2025 through to 2030.
Step 8. Press Tab once more and you focus upon the appointments for that date. Pressing Enter from the Day Combo Box would achieve the same effect.
Pressing Escape from the appointments list returns to the day Combo Box.
Step 1. Press Alt+2 to select Week View. You will notice as you do that JAWS announces the number of appointments for the focused week.
Step 2. Press Tab.
Step 3. You are now on the first of three combo boxes. The first combo box allows you to move through the weeks. Press Up or Down Arrow to move through them. As you do so, JAWS announces the days of the week, the dates and how many appointments there are, such as "Monday 15 June to Sunday 21 June, 7 appointments".
Step 4. Press Tab to reach the Month combo box.
Step 5. Press Up or Down Arrow keys to move through the months from January to December.
Step 6. Press Tab to reach the Year Combo Box.
Step 7. Select the year from 2025 through to 2030.
Step 8. Press Tab once more and you focus upon the appointments for that week. Pressing Enter from the Week Combo Box would achieve the same effect.
Pressing Escape from the appointments list returns to the week Combo Box.
Step 1. Press Alt+3 to select Month View. You will notice as you do that JAWS announces the number of appointments for the focused month.
Step 2. Press Tab.
Step 3. You are now on the first of two combo boxes. The first combo box allows you to move through the months. Press Up or Down Arrow to move through them. As you do so, JAWS announces the months of the year and how many appointments there are, such as "July, 15 appointments".
Step 4. Press Tab to reach the Year Combo Box.
Step 5. Select the year from 2025 through to 2030.
Step 6. Press Tab once more and you focus upon the appointments for that month. Pressing Enter from the month Combo Box would achieve the same effect.
Pressing Escape from the appointments list returns to the month Combo Box. The Appointments List.
When focus is in the appointments list:
Up and Down arrow keys move through appointments. JAWS speaks brief details of the appointment. Enter opens the selected appointment in a read-only view. Press Down Arrow to move through the details. The Tab key can be pressed to move through elements of the appointment, such as to a meeting link or file attachment. Press Enter to open a meeting link or file attachment. Alt+E edits the selected appointment. Delete removes the selected appointment.
If there are no appointments in the selected period, Leasey Diary will tell you.
Control+G opens Go to Date.
Go to Date accepts ordinary numeric dates according to your selected date format, and it also accepts entries such as:
The term "now" refers to the focused date.
If you enter a month and day without a year, Leasey Diary assumes you mean the next matching date from today onward.
You can also press Control+F. This allows you to enter a search string which must be present in the Subject field or appointment notes.
You can then press Tab to reach three possible options:
Search Entire Calendar. This will bring into a list all appointments which exist in the calendar containing the search string. Press Enter on any one of them to move to it. Search From This Date Forward. Selecting this option will take you to the next occurrence of an appointment containing the text string. Search From This Date Backward. Selecting this option will take you to the previous occurrence of an appointment containing the text string.
When the choice has been made, press Tab to reach the Search Button and press Enter or Space.
If you have chosen the second or third of these options, press F3 to move to the next occurrence or Shift+F3 to move back.
Moving to a Specific Date.
One of the most useful commands listed above is Control+G. This will allow you to move to a specific date.
Step 1. Open Leasey Diary. The application always starts at today's date.
Step 2. Press Control+G.
Step 3. Type a date as directed above, such as 10 October 2026 or October 10 2026.
Step 4. Press Enter. Focus moves to the date. JAWS announces it together with how many appointments there are for the current date.
Press Control+N to create a new appointment.
The appointment dialog includes the following fields:
Press the Tab key to move through the appointment creation fields.
Use these for the appointment date range. A one-day appointment can use the same start and end date. You can enter ordinary dates in your chosen format, written dates such as 19 June or June 19, and simple relative dates such as today, tomorrow, now, or 4 weeks from now. Relative dates are worked out from the currently selected diary date. So if you had previously used Go to Date with Control+G, and moved to 1 August, we mean 4 weeks from 1 August.
When you leave the field by pressing Tab, Leasey Diary speaks the resolved weekday and date so it is easier to catch mistakes. This is an incredibly useful feature.
You can choose All day, Specific time, Morning, Afternoon or Evening. Press Down Arrow to move through the choices.
If you choose Specific time, you can enter times in 24-hour format or with AM/PM.
Examples include:
If the End date is later than the Start date, Leasey Diary also allows overnight times. For example, a Start time of 21:45 and an End time of 06:00 is valid if the End date is the following day.
This is the main title of the appointment. It is a one line summary describing the appointment.
You can place a Zoom, Teams or other online meeting link here.
You can attach a file path if you want to keep a related document with the appointment. This might be a meeting agenda for example. An Edit Field is available into which a full file path can be typed or pasted. Alternatively, press Tab to reach the Browse Button, whereupon you can browse to a file on the computer.
Check this box for informational entries that should stay in the diary but should not trigger conflict warnings if you try to save an appointment which potentially coincides with another. This is useful for items such as reminders, notes about someone being away, or other entries you want to see on the calendar without treating them as diary clashes.
Appointments can be set not to repeat, or to repeat daily, weekly, monthly or yearly. Press Down Arrow to move through the choices. If one of the repeat options is selected, press Tab to move through repeat configuration fields. You can choose whether the repeating appointment never ends, ends after a number of occurrences, or ends on a particular date.
The first field is entitled "Repeat Every" and reflects the range you choose in the previous field. You type a value into this field. For example, if you had selected that the appointment should repeat every week, pressing Tab from that point would cause JAWS to say "Repeat every one week". If you wanted your appointment to be recurring each fortnight, type a value of 2 to represent two weeks.
Next comes the "Repeat Ends" Combo Box. The values are "No End Date", "Ends after a number of occurrences" and "ends on date". Having selected one of these with the Dow Arrow key, press Tab to move into a field which allows you to control when the repeat ends. For example, if you had selected "End on date", pressing Tab would allow you to type a date on which the appointment recurrence should finish.
Checking this box would allow you to set a reminder for the appointment. The process for doing so will be described in the next section.
Checking this box allows you to specify the number of days ahead you would like an appointment set. If checked, pressing Tab moves to an Edit Field allowing you to enter the number of days ahead. Checking this box will not create a reminder. It will create an appointment in the diary the specified number of days ahead. For example, if Emily's birthday falls on 4 November, you might want to be reminded several days ahead so you can buy her a gift. Checking the box allows you to press Tab to reach the "Days Before" Edit Field. Enter a number of days, such as 5.
Use this for any extra detail you want to store with the appointment.
Press Enter or Space to save the appointment.
In summary, don't forget that you can press Insert+F1 (or Caps Lock+F1) on any appointment field to get a reminder of its purpose.
As indicated above, Leasey Diary includes reminders for timed appointments.
To set a reminder:
Step 1. Create or edit an appointment. Press Tab to move through the fields as described in the previous section.
Step 2. Choose Specific time as the time type.
Step 3. Check the Set reminder check box.
Step 4. Choose how many minutes before the appointment the reminder should occur.
Step 5. Choose the reminder method.
There are three reminder methods. These are displayed in a combo box. Press the Down Arrow key to move through the choices. Speech Sound Speech and Sound
Step 6. If Speech is chosen, you can enter the message that should be displayed in a dialog box. Press Tab to reach the message Edit Field.
Step 7. If one of the sound options are chosen, you can type a sound file path, browse to a file, or activate the Choose Button to pick from built-in JAWS and Windows sounds. Press Tab to move through the fields relating to these options. If you press Enter or Space on the Choose Sound Button, a list of sounds is made available. Press the Down Arrow key to move through the choices. Press the Tab key to reach the Preview Button and press Enter or Space to hear the sound. If you find a sound you like, press Tab to reach the Choose Button and press Enter or Space.
If Speech and Sound is chosen, you can supply both the message and the sound.
When you choose or browse to a sound, Leasey Diary remembers that sound and offers it again as the default next time.
Step 8. If you always prefer the same reminder style, open Options with Control+Comma and set Default reminder method. New appointment reminders and new task reminders will then begin with that method already selected.
Reminders are intended to be practical and flexible. For example, you might want a spoken reminder saying what the appointment is, or you may prefer a sound alert.
Step 9. Important note: If you wish reminders to be monitored when your computer starts, open Options with Control+Comma and ensure Minimize to system tray on close is checked. The Options dialog will be fully described later.
To edit an existing appointment:
Step 1. Find the appointment you wish to edit.
Step 2. Press Alt+E.
Step 3. This opens the appointment editing dialog box which is identical to the create new appointment dialog box. You can change any part of the appointment you wish including adding notes, browsing for a file attachment or setting a reminder.
Step 4. Tab to the Save Button and press Enter or Space.
in every way Duplicating appointments
If you wish an appointment to be duplicated:
Step 1. First, find the appointment concerned.
Step 2. Press Alt+U to activate the Duplicate Button.
Step 3. You are then presented with a Combo box. The caption reads Choose when the copied appointment should take place. Press Down Arrow to move through the options, which are:
Step 4. Press Tab to reach the Continue Button and press Enter or Space.
Step 5. The New Appointment window is displayed. You can press Tab to move through the elements and modify as necessary. Activate the Save Button so as to save the appointment.
The Tools menu can be opened with Alt+Comma. Most tools have direct shortcut keys applied so that accessing this menu is not always necessary.
Useful Tools commands include:
In addition:
Export whole diary as text. Allows you to export the diary to a text file. Export whole diary as ICS. Allows you to export the diary to an ICS file, where it may be possible to import to another calendar.
Some of the tools require clarification:
Today's date is now copied to the clipboard according to your date regional format.
Activating this item will bring into view an Edit Field and, when a date is entered into it and the Enter key pressed, it will place the day on which it falls into an Edit Field for review. This function can also be used for days in the past. So if you wanted to find out on which day your sister was born, type in her date of birth. Pressing Enter will cause the day to be displayed in an Edit Field. Press Escape to return to Leasey Diary.
"Get Days From Dates" allows you to specify two dates and Leasey will advise you how many days are between them.
This requires two pieces of information, essentially two dates. When the menu item is activated, as prompted type in the first date.
Pressing Enter prompts for the second date which you should type into the Edit Field.
Press Enter and the response will be displayed in an Edit Field, such as:
3654 days inclusive of the start date and end date. Press Escape to return to Leasey Diary.
This is the reverse procedure of the above item, "Get Days From Dates".
Let us assume someone wishes to book an appointment with you in 14 days from today. You may not be sure on which date that falls. In point of fact Leasey Diary already has better ways of obtaining this information as previously discussed, however this is a legacy feature which has been retained.
When the menu item is activated, type in the number of days forward for which you wish to know the date, such as 14. Then press Enter. This tool searches from today's date, not the date currently focused in the diary which could be quite different. The date is returned in an Edit Field. Press Escape to return to Leasey Diary.
The "Days of Future and Past" feature, as the name suggests, can also work in the reverse direction. If you insert a minus sign prior to the number of days, such as -14, you will hear what the date was, in our example, two weeks prior to today.
If you used the previous Leasey Diary, Leasey can import appointments from that older calendar file.
This command is available with Alt+Z.
The import looks for the older Leasey Diary calendar file automatically. If the file is found, Leasey imports appointments from it and skips anything which already appears to exist in the new diary.
This is particularly helpful if:
you are moving from an earlier Leasey build you have gone back to an older copy for reference you want to bring legacy appointments into the current diary without typing them again
To import from the previous Leasey Diary:
Step 1. Open Leasey Diary.
Step 2. Press Alt+Z.
Step 3. If the older calendar file is found, Leasey imports what it can and then displays a read-only summary showing how many appointments were imported.
Step 4. Press Escape, Enter or Numpad Enter to close the summary and return to the diary.
If Leasey cannot find the older calendar file, a message is displayed to let you know.
Leasey Diary can also keep a read-only calendar file updated for use on a phone or tablet. This does not send your diary to Hartgen Consultancy. Instead, Leasey Diary writes an ICS file to a folder you choose, for example Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive or iCloud Drive. You then create a sharing link to that file and subscribe to the link from your calendar app.
This is a complex procedure to work through and it is recommended that you only do so if you feel you really need to.
To open this feature, press Alt+Comma for the Tools menu and choose Phone calendar subscription.
When the dialog box is displayed, press the Tab key to move through the fields.
The Phone Calendar Subscription window includes:
Step 1. Move to the Calendar file path Edit Field.
Step 2. Type a path manually or Tab to the Browse Button and press Enter or Space.
Step 3. If you use Dropbox, it is a good idea to save the file straight into your Dropbox folder now, for example:
Leasey Diary.ics
Step 4. Quoted paths copied from File Explorer are accepted.
Step 5. Decide whether you want notes, meeting links or attachment paths included in the published calendar. For privacy, it is sensible to think carefully before including extra information. This is a check box which you can check or uncheck as appropriate.
Step 6. Tab to the Save and Close Button and press Enter or Space.
Save and close will save the settings and create or update the ICS file at the path you chose.
Step 7. Publish now is available if you later want to force an immediate refresh without changing the settings.
Once the ICS file has been created:
Step 1. Open your Dropbox folder in File Explorer or Leasey File Manager.
Step 2. Find the file you created, for example Leasey Diary.ics.
Step 3. Open the Context Menu on that file.
Step 4. Choose Copy Dropbox Link. If you are using Leasey File Manager, select the Dropbox menu item, then select Copy Dropbox Link as Download.
Step 5. When the link has been copied to the clipboard, return to Leasey Diary.
Step 1. Open Phone calendar subscription again if needed.
Step 2. Move to the Subscription URL Edit Field.
Step 3. Paste the Dropbox link into that field.
Step 4. Press the Check subscription URL Button. This is a useful step because Leasey Diary will try to tell you whether the link appears to point directly to the calendar file.
Step 5. If the link looks suitable, Leasey Diary will tell you that it looks like a calendar subscription link.
Step 6. If the link does not appear to return the calendar file directly, Leasey Diary will warn you that your calendar app may not be able to subscribe to it.
Dropbox links sometimes end with:
dl=0
Leasey Diary will automatically change that to:
dl=1
This is done because a direct calendar subscription link is usually more likely to work with dl=1 than dl=0.
Once the link has been checked, copy it if needed and use your phone or calendar service to subscribe to it. The exact steps depend on whether you are using Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook or another app, but the important point is that you subscribe to the link rather than importing the file manually each time.
Once the phone calendar path has been saved, Leasey Diary will keep updating that ICS file when appointments change. This means your shared calendar file should stay current without needing a full export every time. If you want to stop this happening, clear the Calendar file path field and press Save and close.
Your calendar service will have the ability to add an additional calendar to subscribe to. With Google Calendar as an example, this is called Add Calendar. The option you then require is URL. You will want to paste the URL into the URL field which becomes available. If you have misplaced the URL, you can go back into Leasey Diary, Phone Calendar Subscription, and a Button is available, Copy Subscription URL.
Your calendar service may have an option where you can rename the diary to something more suitable.
For example with Google Calendar:
Step 1. Find the Other Calendars section and expand it.
Step 2. Find the calendar with the Dropbox link associated with it.
Step 3. You should see an Options Button for the calendar.
Step 4. Activate the Button and the rename item should be available. This can be changed to Leasey Diary as an example.
If you no longer want Leasey Diary to keep updating the phone calendar file, open Phone calendar subscription, delete everything from the Calendar file path Edit Field, Tab to Save and close and press Enter. Deleting the ICS file on its own is not enough, because if the saved path is still present, Leasey Diary will recreate the file the next time it publishes.
From within the main Leasey Diary application, press Alt+4 to move to Leasey Tasks or select it from the Radio Button group described earlier in this chapter.
Tasks are for things you need to do rather than places you need to be. A task can be very simple, such as "Email the support team", or more detailed, with a due date, category, priority, percentage complete, reminder, file attachment and notes.
This means Leasey Tasks can work in at least three useful ways:
as a simple to-do list as a dated task list where you want certain jobs due by a particular day as a gentle follow-up system with reminders and repeating chores
Tasks and the diary are linked where helpful. If a task has a possible completion date, Leasey can show a Task Due entry in the diary for that day. If the task is completed, Leasey updates the linked diary entry automatically.
When you move to Leasey Tasks, the main controls are:
Press Up or Down Arrow keys to move through the lists.
The filters allow you to narrow the list quickly before you even move into the tasks themselves. For example, you could look only at High priority tasks, or only tasks in a category such as Work or Education.
The task status filters can show:
Past due is calculated automatically. If a task has a due date and that date has passed without the task being completed, Leasey treats it as Past due.
The easiest way to learn Tasks is to begin with something straightforward.
Step 1. Press Alt+4 to move to Leasey Tasks.
Step 2. Press Control+N.
Step 3. In the Task Edit Field, type the task name, such as:
Email the support team
Step 4. Press Tab to the Possible completion date field. If the task does not need a due date, leave it blank. If it does need one, type a date such as 25 June 2026.
Step 5. Press Tab to the Task repeats field. Leave this at Does not repeat for now. It is a combo box with options.
Step 6. Press Tab through the remaining fields as needed. You can choose a status, type or choose a category, choose a priority, set a percentage complete, attach a file, add a reminder, and type notes. With most of the controls just mentioned, again use the Up and Down Arrow keys to move through the options. With percentage complete, type a value such as 50 to represent 50 percent. Don't forget too that you can press Insert+F1 if you are not sure what to do.
Step 7. Press Enter to save. You do not need to tab all the way to Save.
That is the basic pattern. You can keep tasks very short and only fill in extra information when it is helpful.
Here is a more realistic example.
Suppose you need to send in medical forms before an appointment.
Step 1. Press Control+N from the Tasks view.
Step 2. In the Task field, type:
Fill out medical forms
Step 3. In Possible completion date, type:
02/07/2026
Step 4. In Task category, type:
Health
Step 5. In Task priority, choose:
High
Step 6. In Percentage complete, leave it at 0 for now.
Step 7. If the forms are stored on the computer, move to Task attachment and type or browse to the file. There is an Edit Field for typing or pasting a full file path or a Browse Button allowing you to browse to a file on the computer.
Step 8. If you want reminding, check Set task reminder and fill in the date, time, method and message.
Step 9. In Notes, add anything helpful, such as:
Take insurance details and previous appointment letter
Step 10. Press Enter to save.
Now the task is not only on your task list. Because it has a due date, it can also appear in the diary as a Task Due entry for that day.
Once tasks exist, the list becomes the centre of your workflow.
Step 1. Press Alt+4 to move to Tasks.
Step 2. Press Tab until focus reaches the Tasks list, or press Alt+L.
Step 3. Use Up and Down Arrow to move through the tasks.
As you move, JAWS speaks the task title, status, due date if present, category if present, priority if present, and percentage complete if it is above 0.
Step 4. Press Enter to open the selected task in a read-only view.
Step 5. Read through the details with the Arrow keys. If an attachment is present, press Tab to move to it and press Enter to open it.
Step 6. Press Escape to return to the task list.
To edit an existing task:
Step 1. Move to the task you want.
Step 2. Press Alt+E.
Step 3. Change any details you wish. For example, you may want to update the notes, change the category, add an attachment, or increase Percentage complete from 25 to 50.
Step 4. Press Enter to save.
There are two easy ways to change a task status.
Step 1. Focus the task in the list.
Step 2. Press Alt+S.
Step 3. Choose the new status from the Combo Box by pressing the Down Arrow key.
Step 4. Press Enter to save.
Focus on a task and then press:
This is particularly useful when working through a long list.
If you complete a task that has a diary due entry or task reminder, Leasey updates those linked items automatically.
Categories and priorities are there to make the list easier to manage. They are optional, but once you start using them they become very powerful.
For example, you might create categories such as:
Category names are matched sensibly, so Work and work are treated as the same category rather than two separate ones.
Priority lets you choose:
A practical example might be:
You can then move to the Category or Priority filters and narrow the list quickly.
The filters within the Tasks view are ideal when your list starts to grow.
Step 1. Move to Tasks with Alt+4.
Step 2. Press Tab to the Task status filter.
Step 3. Use Up or Down Arrow to choose the type of tasks you want to review, for example:
Step 4. Press Tab to the Category filter if required, and choose a category such as Work or Health.
Step 5. Press Tab to the Priority filter if required, and choose High, Medium or Low.
Step 6. Press Tab or press Alt+L to move into the filtered task list.
This is especially helpful if you want to ask yourself a practical question such as:
Tasks can have reminders just like appointments, except that the reminder date and time are set directly for the task. This is useful when the reminder moment is not the same as the task due date.
For example, a task may be due on Friday, but you may want the reminder on Wednesday morning.
Creating a reminder is similar for creating one in the diary.
To create a task reminder:
Step 1. Create or edit a task.
Step 2. Check Set task reminder.
Step 3. Type the reminder date.
Step 4. Type the reminder time.
Step 5. Choose the reminder method:
Step 6. If using Speech, type the message you want displayed.
Step 7. If using Sound or Speech and Sound, browse to a sound or choose one from the built-in sound list.
Step 8. Press Enter to save the task.
If the task is later completed before the reminder occurs, Leasey suppresses that reminder.
An attachment allows the task to point to a file on the computer without copying the file into the task itself.
This is very useful for things such as:
If the task is deleted, Leasey does not delete the file. The task simply stops pointing to it.
Percentage complete is optional, but it is useful when a task is underway and not simply waiting to be started or marked complete.
Examples:
This is especially useful for tasks such as:
Leasey Tasks can also repeat. This is intended to keep recurring chores and reviews simple, without turning the task list into a complicated project manager.
When creating or editing a task, you will find two recurrence fields:
Task repeats lets you choose:
Repeat every lets you choose the interval.
For example:
Important:
Recurring tasks must have a Possible completion date. This gives Leasey a date from which it can calculate the next occurrence.
Each recurring task is still a normal task. You can give it a category, priority, reminder, attachment and notes just like any other task.
When you mark a recurring task as Completed:
The current occurrence is kept in your task list as completed Its diary due entry is removed, because that occurrence is finished Its task reminder is cleared, because that reminder has been used The next occurrence is created automatically using the recurrence pattern you chose
This means you can keep a record of what you have already done, while still getting the next task created for you automatically.
If the recurring task had a task reminder, the reminder is moved forward to match the next occurrence. For example, if the reminder was two days before the due date, the next task reminder will also be two days before the next due date.
Suppose you want to review a yearly subscription before you are charged again.
You could create a task like this:
When 1 September 2026 comes around, the task will appear with its due date in the usual way. When you complete it, Leasey keeps that completed task for your records and automatically creates the next one due on 1 September 2027. The reminder also moves forward to 25 August 2027.
Suppose you want to remind yourself to put the bins out every week.
You could create:
When you mark that occurrence completed, the next weekly task is created automatically one week later.
Suppose you are working through a large game-accessibility job and want to do a small amount each day.
You could create:
Each time you complete the task, the next day's occurrence is created automatically.
It is possible to create an appointment or task from within any application, even if Leasey Diary is not running.
Press the Leasey Key then Alt+Windows+T to create a new task. Press the Leasey Key then Alt+Windows+A to create a new appointment.
Press Control+Comma to open Options.
Options allow you to change how Leasey Diary behaves generally, rather than working with one specific appointment or task.
Press the Tab key to move through the options.
The Options dialog includes:
If Minimize to system tray on close is checked, pressing Alt+F4 does not fully close Leasey Diary. Instead, it stays available in the system tray.
When you check this box, Leasey Diary also creates the Windows Startup entry it needs in order to start automatically and remain in the tray. Because Leasey Diary requires JAWS to be running, Leasey will ask you to confirm that JAWS is also configured to start automatically after login.
Choose whether times are spoken and shown in 12-hour format with AM and PM, or in 24-hour format.
Choose whether the week begins on Monday or Sunday. This mainly affects Week view.
If you always prefer the same reminder style, set it here.
The available choices are:
New appointment reminders and new task reminders begin with the method you choose here.
This will be fully described in the chapter of this documentation relating to the Backup and Restore Manager and should generally not be changed here.
Insert+F1 opens Context Sensitive Help for the focused control.
Caps Lock+F1 also opens Context Sensitive Help if you are using the JAWS laptop keyboard layout.
Control+Shift+I reports succinct location information through the Where Am I utility.
Control+Shift+C or Insert+H opens Leasey Command Centre for reviewing commands.
Escape closes most Leasey windows or cancels the current dialog.
Press the Leasey Key then Alt+Windows+T to create a new task.
Press the Leasey Key then Alt+Windows+A to create a new appointment.
Alt+1 selects Day view.
Alt+2 selects Week view.
Alt+3 selects Month view.
Alt+4 moves to Leasey Tasks.
Alt+L moves to the appointments list or tasks list.
Enter on a day, week or month control moves to the appointments list for that selection.
Escape in the appointments list returns to the first date control for the current view.
Control+N creates a new appointment or task, depending on the current view.
Control+G opens Go to Date.
Control+F searches appointments.
F3 moves to the next search result.
Shift+F3 moves to the previous search result.
Control+Shift+N moves to the next appointment in the selected recurring series.
Alt+E edits the selected appointment or task.
Delete removes the selected appointment or task.
Enter opens the selected appointment or task for reading.
Alt+Comma opens the Tools menu.
Alt+Z imports appointments from the previous Leasey Diary.
Control+Shift+Y copies today's date to the clipboard.
Control+Shift+W opens What day is this.
Control+Shift+D opens Get days from dates.
Control+Shift+P opens Days of future and past.
Alt+4 moves to Leasey Tasks.
Alt+S opens the Change status dialog for the selected task.
Control+1 sets the selected task to Not started.
Control+2 sets the selected task to In progress.
Control+3 sets the selected task to Waiting.
Control+4 sets the selected task to Completed.
In the New Task and Edit Task dialogs, Enter saves the task from most fields.
In the Notes field of a task, Enter creates a new line.
In read-only result dialogs, Enter, Numpad Enter or Escape closes the window.