Calendar & Reminders Guide

Overview

The Calendar gives you a monthly view of every deadline and event related to your grants. It combines tracked application deadlines, personal events you create, briefing watchlist overlays from saved searches, and executive order risk markers — all color-coded so you can see what needs attention at a glance.

The Calendar is available to all authenticated users (no tier restriction).

What You See on the Calendar

Event Types (Color-Coded)

**Application Deadlines (blue)** — Close dates for grants you've tracked. These appear automatically when you track a grant.

**Personal Events (custom color)** — Events you create for your own planning — meetings, internal deadlines, reminders, tasks.

**Briefing Watchlist (teal, dashed border)** — Deadlines from saved search briefings you toggle on. Useful for spotting patterns across a set of grants.

**EO Risk Markers (red dot)** — Grants affected by executive orders show a red indicator. Hover to see the risk summary and EO number.

Each day cell shows up to 3 events, with a "+X more" label if there are additional items.

Creating Personal Events

1. Click the **"Add Event"** button in the header, or click the **+** icon on any day cell.

2. Fill in the event details:

**Title** (required)

**Description** (optional)

**Start and end dates**

**Event type**: Personal, Meeting, Deadline, Reminder, or Task

**Color**: Choose from 5 presets (blue, green, amber, red, purple)

3. Click save. The event appears on your calendar immediately.

You can edit or delete personal events by clicking on them.

Briefing Overlays

If you've saved search sessions as briefings (from the Search page), they appear in the **Briefing Overlays** section below the calendar.

Toggle a briefing on to overlay its grant deadlines onto the calendar in teal.

If a grant's live deadline has changed since you saved the briefing, an alert icon appears.

Click a watchlist item to navigate back to the full briefing.

If you haven't saved any briefings yet, you'll see a prompt to create one from search.

Suggested Milestones

For high-priority grants, the calendar suggests prep milestones when you hover over a deadline:

**"Final Narrative Review"** — 3 days before deadline (for grants with a fit score of 90+)

**"Oversight Compliance Check"** — 7 days before deadline (for grants flagged with executive order risk)

Click the suggestion to add it as a personal event automatically.

Sidebar Cards

The right sidebar shows:

**Upcoming Deadlines** — Your next 5 approaching grant deadlines

**Tracked Applications** — Your next 5 tracked grants by date

**Unscheduled / Continuous Grants** — Active grants with no fixed deadline. For each, you can set a target deadline to create a self-imposed calendar reminder, or check the agency site for updates.

Deadline Notifications

GrantsPath checks for upcoming deadlines multiple times daily and sends notifications to users who have bookmarked or tracked those grants. Notifications respect your preferences (email, in-app, or push) and quiet hours set in your profile. Grants closing within 1–7 days trigger alerts.

Navigation

Use the left and right arrows to move between months. Today's date is highlighted in blue. Days from adjacent months are shown in a lighter shade for context.

Calendar & Reminders