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Sketchy Calendar

Can we have a calendar that combines the convenience of a digital calendar with the simplicity and expressivity you get from pen & paper?

It is easy to ignore: Users can draw arrows, doodle, and mark rough timeframes for activities, without being forced to fit a predetermined schema. This versatility extends way beyond scheduling events—the same pages can accommodate things like meeting notes, meal plans, to-dos, and habit tracking. While certainly an improvement over regular calendar apps, they remain constrained to the limits of the ‘app’ paradigm: users cannot customize their experience in ways the developers didn’t anticipate, they’re stuck with workarounds or feature requests that — if implemented — will inevitably lead to feature creep, which will add complexity for all users.

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