Calendar planning guides for a clearer day
Practical guides to combining calendars, preventing double-booking, protecting focus time, and planning work and personal commitments.
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Field-tested approaches to multiple calendars, daily planning, focus time, and privacy.
Calendar Craft
How to combine work and personal calendars
Bring separate schedules into one useful view without copying private event details into a work account.
Aug 25, 2026
10 min read
Calendar Craft
How to view Google, Outlook, and iCloud calendars together
See Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, and iCloud on one timeline while each provider keeps its own records.
Aug 24, 2026
10 min read
Practice
How to prevent double-booking across calendars
Use one complete view, honest availability, and a short confirmation habit before saying yes.
Aug 23, 2026
10 min read
Practice
How to choose the best calendar app for multiple calendars
Choose around your real provider mix, privacy boundaries, daily view, and conflict habits.
Aug 22, 2026
12 min read
Product Thinking
The calendar should help you leave it.
A useful calendar creates a stopping point. Once the day is clear, it should get out of the way.
Aug 8, 2026
7 min read
Product Thinking
Designing a Today view that knows what to leave out
A daily view becomes useful when it edits the schedule down to the decisions that matter now.
Aug 8, 2026
7 min read
Calendar Craft
Why open time deserves a name
Blank calendar space is capacity. Naming it makes the day easier to plan without filling every minute.
Aug 7, 2026
7 min read
Behind Tilly
Building across iPhone and web without shrinking either
The iPhone should make the next decision fast. The web should give the week enough room to compare.
Aug 6, 2026
7 min read
Practice
A weekly reset that takes fifteen minutes
A short calendar reset can expose the week's tradeoffs without becoming another planning project.
Aug 5, 2026
8 min read
Privacy
Useful context without a data appetite
A calendar product should be able to explain every permission it asks for and every action it takes.
Aug 4, 2026
8 min read
Product Notes
What we learned from the first month of Pro
Paid calendar features matter when they remove a real planning decision, not when they add another settings page.
Aug 3, 2026
7 min read