In the date grid, a busy day packs its events into a tight cell, and long names get cut off. Vertical layout takes the other approach: months become columns, and the days flow straight down.
Because each day is a full-width row, an event sits on its own line next to the date — far easier to read than a name squeezed into a grid cell. It’s the layout for a year you read day by day: school terms, birthdays, holidays, the small things that fill a family’s calendar.
Multi-day plans read differently here. A single-day event can be stretched into a span just by dragging its lower edge, and it becomes a rail running down the column. Drag the edge of “Grandparents Visit” and a one-day note grows into a week-long stay.
The rail is what keeps a long event from getting lost. When a plan crosses from one month into the next, its rail simply continues down the following column — a summer camp that runs from July into August stays one continuous thread, not two disconnected chips. Hover it, and the whole span lights up across the months.
Twelve months sit side by side, so you can compare the shape of one month against another at a glance — where the busy weeks fall, which stretches are open.
Vertical layout is available on Premium, and it’s in Beta. Turn it on from the Layout control in Display Options.