You manage abbreviations on the Calendar Pattern card at Settings → Calendar recognition: it’s where you teach Acquit what shorthand in your calendar means. The card has four sections:
- Court Locations: e.g. BMC → Brisbane Magistrates Court.
- Appearance Types: e.g. MTN → Mention.
- Event Types: e.g. CONF → Conference. Use this for tasks and deadlines that aren’t appearances before a judge.
- Excluded Keywords: words Acquit should skip entirely. Each entry shows how many recent events it matches, with a warning icon on overly broad words.
Click Add on a section to add an abbreviation yourself, or click any existing row to edit it.
Detecting new shorthand
- Click Re-scan calendar for new shorthand. Acquit lists each unrecognised abbreviation with example calendar entries, some pre-filled with a Community or AI suggestion.
- Enter the full name for each abbreviation, or click Exclude if it isn’t court-related (e.g. “OFF” for a day off).
Acquit also scans on its own: fresh AI suggestions can appear the next time you open settings, whenever a sync brings in events it doesn’t recognise.
Excluding broad words
Excluding a single short word, or a common word like report, shows a warning: that exclusion would also skip police report, expert report and so on. Map it to an Event Type instead when you can.
Tip: Click View all recognised abbreviations to see everything the system already knows: system defaults, community-promoted mappings and your custom ones.