The Guide

The Problem

Calendar apps show appointments but not shape — what is protected, what is actually next, what the week looks like at a glance. The Guide renders the week as a programme schedule with a live now-line, carries unfinished tasks into the following week, and keeps working with no connection at all.

The Solution

A personal operating system for time, built as a single hand-written file. Five views: a concierge Today page, the week laid out like television programming across Work, Life, Wellness and Travel channels, a paper-style weekly list, local events, and day-by-day trip itineraries.

Features

• The week as television programming — four channels on a shared timeline with a red now-line
• Concierge Today view: On Now with a progress bar and leave-by, what’s protected, and what’s next
• Weekly list that inherits its groups, carries unfinished tasks forward, and resets habits each week
• Repeating events expanded on read rather than stored, so changing a series leaves no duplicates to clean up
• In-browser .ics export with real VTIMEZONE blocks, so multi-timezone flights stay correct
• Stable calendar event IDs, so re-importing updates events instead of duplicating them
• Checklist sharing over the Web Share API with newest-wins per-field merge
• Two themes from a single block of tokens, and offline support from a precaching service worker
• ~2,700 lines in one file: no framework, no dependencies, no build step

Tech Stack