Preparing the meeting
Each meeting carries its date, time, degree, venue, papers and speaker, its agenda and its visibility to the brethren. A standard agenda, matched to the degree and written in the lodge's language, gives you a starting point; the lodge can save its own templates.
The lodge's cadence — say, the second and fourth Thursdays — suggests dates in advance. A meeting can be duplicated or dragged to another day in the calendar, and its agape follows: date, name and visibility stay in step.
Planning the Masonic year
The Planning view prepares the calendar of a whole season. The application rolls out your cadence, avoids public holidays, places recurring events such as the St John's festivals and spreads the planned papers. Dates are always calculated by the application; artificial intelligence, if you call on it, only suggests themes, degrees and the distribution of papers among the slots it is given.
Nothing is visible to the brethren before publication: the meetings created stay hidden until you make them visible, in a separate step. A paper outline can be e-mailed to the brother who is to speak.
Summoning and collecting intentions
The summons carries the agenda, date, time and venue. You choose the recipients; each brother receives it in his own language, with a button to declare his attendance. Replies — present, absent for work, absent for personal reasons — appear on the meeting, name by name.
The lodge calendar can be subscribed to from Google, Apple or Outlook; public holidays and external calendars can be layered on top.
Taking the roll
On the night, the Secretary marks brethren present, excused or absent; a button pre-fills the sheet from the declared intentions. A tablet mode lets brethren sign in at the temple door with a signature drawn by finger — visiting brethren too, with their home lodge.
A brother can only be marked between his admission and departure dates, so attendance history stays accurate. Each brother finds his own record under “My attendance” and can download it as a PDF.
Reading the season
The meetings Statistics view, filtered by Masonic year, gathers what officers usually look for across several notebooks:
- Meeting rhythm, compared with the previous season
- Attendance meeting by meeting and by degree
- Papers per speaker, and brethren who have not yet presented one
- Minutes adopted, in progress or missing
- Summonses sent and the average notice given