Importing from your university
Your timetable is the backbone of the Today view, so it is worth getting in early. Once your classes are in, Today can show you what is on, what is next, and where you need to be, which is the screen most people end up opening each morning. There are two ways to add classes, plus a way to mirror First Six into the calendar app you already use.
Pick the path that matches what your university gives you. If you can copy your timetable as text, paste it. If you only have a handful of classes, add them by hand. Either way you end up in the same place.
Paste your timetable
The fastest start is to paste. Copy your classes from wherever your university publishes them (a portal, a PDF, an email) and drop the text into Timetable → Import. First Six lays out a starter week from it.
It reads the text directly rather than guessing with AI, which is a deliberate choice: a direct read is predictable, so when something looks wrong you can see exactly why, instead of wondering what a model invented. The trade-off is that a messy line can occasionally be misread. That is why it shows you every row to review before anything is saved.
- Copy the text
Grab your classes from the portal, PDF, or email. Rough is fine; you will clean it up in the next step.
- Paste into Timetable → Import
First Six lays out a starter week from what you pasted and shows it back to you as rows.
- Review every row
Fix a title, tweak a time, change a colour, or untick a row you do not want. Nothing is saved until you say so, so there is no risk in checking.
- Save
Once it looks right, save, and each class becomes a weekly repeat.
Imported classes repeat from your "first week starts" date, so check that date is right before saving. It anchors the whole recurring schedule, and getting it wrong shifts every class by a week, which is far more annoying to fix after the fact than to check once now.
Add classes by hand
If you only have a few classes, or your university does not give you anything easy to copy, add them directly. Drag to create a block in the day or week view, then set the title, location, colour, and how it repeats (weekly is the common one). Times snap to fifteen-minute steps so blocks line up cleanly and you are not fighting to land exactly on the half hour.
This is also the path to reach for when you only have part of your timetable. Add what you know now and come back for the rest; nothing depends on the week being complete.
Subscribe in your own calendar
First Six can also feed your existing calendar. Each account has a private
calendar linkA calendar link in the .ics format that other calendar apps can subscribe to and keep in sync.
you can subscribe to in Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or anything that takes
an .ics URL. Your classes, and any tasks with due dates, then show up alongside
everything else you already track, so you are not checking two calendars.
The link is private to you and acts as its own key, so do not share it or post it anywhere. Anyone with the link can see your schedule. If you think it has been shared, stop using that feed and contact your university or First Six support so we can sort it out.
Common questions
The importer misread a class. Did it save the mistake?
No. The importer shows every row for review and saves nothing until you confirm, so you catch and fix a misread line before it lands. If you only spot it later, edit the class directly.
Do paste and a calendar feed do the same thing?
Not quite. Pasting (or adding by hand) puts classes into First Six. The private calendar link goes the other way: it mirrors your First Six schedule out into Apple or Google Calendar so it shows up next to your other events.
Why are all my classes a week off?
Almost always the "first week starts" date. It anchors every recurring class, so correcting that date realigns the whole schedule.
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