Myriad Calendar
Mac · iPhone · Watch

A task with no hour
is just a wish.

A list tells you what is outstanding. It never tells you whether the week has room for it. Myriad Calendar puts the two on one screen: drag a task onto the day, and it takes an actual hour — one you can see is free, because everything that is already claiming your time is drawn there too.

In development · not yet released

Both ways
Google and Microsoft calendars
Profiles
work and home, kept apart
Three devices
Mac, iPhone, Apple Watch
The core move

Drag it onto the day

One gesture turns an intention into a commitment, and the calendar is honest with you about whether it fits.

A task becomes a block

Pull a task from the list onto an hour. It snaps to the quarter, takes its length from the time you estimated for it, and the task's deadline becomes that exact hour rather than a vague "today".

Today shows the hours that are gone

The day's list is not a list floating in the abstract. The time already taken — by meetings, by blocks you placed, by the other side of your life — is drawn alongside it, so "I will fit this in later" has to survive contact with the actual afternoon.

Find a free slot

Ask for the first gap long enough for the task and it looks across everything that occupies you — your own blocks, your meetings, and the busy time from your other profiles. It searches two weeks ahead, and if there is genuinely no room it says so instead of throwing the task into next month.

Move it and the calendar follows

Drag a placed block to a different hour and the event it created moves with it. Delete the task and the event goes too, so your real calendar does not slowly fill with the ghosts of plans you abandoned.

Your existing calendars

Both directions, and writing is off until you say so

Google and Microsoft calendars come in so that the day you see is the real one. Sending your blocks back out is a separate decision.

Meetings arrive with their join links

Events from Google and Microsoft show up in the day, and a meeting with a Meet or Teams link keeps it, with a button to join. You do not need the other app open to get into the call.

Write-back is off by default

Blocks are only pushed into a real calendar once you pick the target calendar yourself, per profile. This is deliberate: your calendar is what colleagues see when they check whether you are free, and filling their view of your availability is not something software should start doing on its own.

Turn a project off the calendar

Hide a project's blocks from the calendar without touching its tasks. Useful when one client's work is drowning out the shape of the week.

Work and the rest of life

Separate, but not blind to each other

Profiles keep work and home in different places — which is exactly what makes double-booking easy. The answer is not to merge the two; it is to show you the shape of the other side without showing you its contents.

  • Busy time, without the titlesTime claimed in another profile is drawn as a hatched band with no title on it. You can see that the hour is taken. You cannot see by what.
  • A block that lands on it is flaggedPlace work over something in your personal profile and the block says so, at the moment you place it, while it is still one drag away from being somewhere else.
  • Free-slot search counts all of itThe search for a gap does not politely ignore your other profile. An hour that is taken is taken.
The list half

Tasks that behave like real ones

When

Deadlines that are not only dates

Parts of the day count as a deadline

This morning, this afternoon, this evening, sometime this week — a full deadline type, not a label. Most of what you owe yourself is scheduled that loosely, and forcing it into a timestamp makes the timestamp a lie.

Repeats counted from when you did it

"Every ten days" from the day you last actually did it, rather than from a fixed grid. Weekday schedules work too, for the things that really do belong to Tuesdays.

Unfinished rolls forward

What you did not get to moves to tomorrow by itself, instead of sitting in yesterday going quietly red.

Clashes are named as you pick

Choose an hour that collides with something — including busy time in another profile — and the task panel says so there and then, without giving away the other profile's titles.

What

Sorting a week's worth of work

Projects, including for other people's events

Group tasks under a project, and attach a meeting from your synced calendar to a task or a project — so the hour you spent on somebody else's invitation is filed against the work it belonged to.

Priority and your own categories

Low, medium, high — plus task types you define yourself, each with a colour and an icon. Both show on the list and on the block in the calendar, so the shape of the day is readable without opening anything.

Ticking off is reversible

Show or hide what is done, and put a mistake back with one click. Un-ticking a repeating task takes the occurrence it spawned with it, so a fumbled tap does not leave a duplicate behind.

Where

Three devices, one day

Mac

Where the dragging happens: the full list and calendar side by side, which is the view the app is designed around.

iPhone, with widgets

The day in your pocket, and on the home screen without opening anything.

Apple Watch

What is next, and ticking it off without getting your phone out.

Straight answer

What is not finished

The app is in development and has had no public release. What is described above is what it is being built to do; here is where that currently falls short.

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One payment, when it is ready.

No subscription, and no account to log into — the calendars you connect are yours, and the app is only a way of looking at them.