Note Details
- Stage: seed 🌱
- Type: link
- Topics: time, tools, productivity
A note exploring how calendar applications shape our relationship with time and temporal orientation.
Calendar applications are more than productivity tools — they are interfaces that fundamentally shape how we perceive, organize, and orient ourselves to time. The design choices embedded in digital calendars (weekly grids, hourly blocks, linear timelines) encode specific cultural assumptions about time as a scarce, divisible resource to be optimized. Alternative approaches to temporal orientation, such as cyclical calendars, seasonal rhythms, or task-based time awareness, offer different ways of relating to the flow of experience and the rhythms of life.