Plazza — User Guide

Overview

Plazza is a personalized calendar that combines events from many venues into one place. You choose which venues you care about, apply simple filters, and Plazza shows you what’s happening—without making you hunt across dozens of websites.

You don’t need an account to browse, but logging in unlocks persistence and personalization.

Venues (Left Sidebar)

The Venues list controls which sources appear on your calendar.

• Each checkbox represents a venue (library, theater, planetarium, etc.).
• Checked = events from that venue appear on the calendar.
• Unchecked = that venue’s events are hidden.

Important behaviors

• When you subscribe to a venue, it is automatically checked.
• If you log in, your venue selections are remembered.
• If you’re browsing as a guest, a small set of Featured Venues is shown by default.

Tip: If your calendar looks empty, check the venue list first.

Preferences (Filters)

Preferences let you narrow down which events you see, without changing which venues are selected.

Common filters include:

• Kid-friendly events
• Free events
• Indoor events
• Time of day (daytime / evening)
• Maximum price
• Favorite keywords

How filters interact

• Filters are ANDed together (events must match all active filters).
• If both “Daytime” and “Evening” are unchecked, Plazza assumes no time filter.
• Filters apply immediately when changed.

Preferences are saved to your account when you’re logged in.

Asking Questions About Events

You can type a natural-language question like:
“Which days have kid-friendly evening events?”

Plazza will analyze the currently visible events and answer based on what’s on your calendar—not the entire internet.

Accounts

With an account, Plazza will:

• Remember your venue selections
• Remember your preferences
• Automatically show newly subscribed venues

Without an account, selections last only for your browser session.

What’s Coming (Teaser)

Plazza is designed to grow. Planned features include:

• Smarter recommendations
• Per-user featured venues
• Event reminders
• Calendar exports (iCal)
• Family and group sharing

More "Ask" examples

Here are more questions you can ask about events.

• What are the next 10 events?
• What events are happening this weekend?
• What’s happening on January 3?
• Which days this month have the most events?
• List evening events only.
• Show kid-friendly events this week.
• Any free events in the next two weeks?
• What events mention ‘music’?
• Do we have anything related to space or astronomy?
• Any events with ‘storytime’ in the title or description?
• Which venues have events on Friday night?
• What’s the earliest event coming up?
• Any events that look good for a date night?
• What can we do with kids under 10?
• Show only indoor events in the next 7 days.
• Are there events that cost $0 or say ‘free’?
• Which days have both daytime and evening events?
• Show events from Clark Planetarium only.
• Show events from Bountiful Library and Eccles Theater only.
• What are the last events in the month?

Undocumented features

So far, there are two pages of additional information

• plazza.net/admin - Instructions for the web-site administrator, i.e., notes to self.
• plazza.net/qr - The plazza.com QR code in normal and 4x format.