Ask HN: I Think I Need a New Calendar App
Hi HN,<p>Sorry for posting this here, but since reddit meltdown I can&#x27;t post there.<p>Here is the deal:<p>I am working freelance with a very flexible schedule, and I also live in the woods and have two young kids. As a result, I have both things I normally do every day (driving kids to school, working, preparing lunch, etc) -- and a ton of non-work stuff to do that often need to interrupt what I normally do (doctors appointments, do stuff in the garden, etc.).<p>Now, I have a very hard time staying on top of it all. To the point where I am finding it difficult planning a time to go to the hairdresser. Since my freelance job pays me by the hour, I set myself to work x hours in the day (on average per week) to ensure a fairly constant salary. But with all the other stuff I need to do, I always need to catch up on work I skipped and end up getting confused about how much work I did and how much work I can put in in the following days. The whole thing means that I am constantly struggling about what I should or shouldn&#x27;t do.<p>So I am looking for an calendar app that&#x27;s different to all the ones I have seen on the internet.<p>I think I need an app where there is a &quot;default&quot; mode, or &quot;template week&quot; or whatever you want to name it. That would hold the &quot;regular things&quot;: work, driving kids to school, grocery shopping, etc. And then I could add &quot;exceptional tasks&quot;, that would &quot;interrupt&quot; the &quot;default&quot; thing I would normally be doing at that time. This is so i can know when I take an appointment at the bank, this will reduce my work time by 2 hours. If it could also take care of padding the time with driving times between places that would be a huge help.<p>Anyone knows anything like this?<p>Otherwise, I&#x27;ll just make a spreadsheet