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The Planner: your family's week on one screen

· 3 min read
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If you're the parent who knows when swimming is, that the dentist is on Tuesday, that Friday is a school holiday and that Saturday's birthday party still needs a present, you've been carrying the family's week around in your head. KashCal 2026.10.15 gives it somewhere to go: the Planner.

A week, the way a paper planner shows it​

Open the view menu and pick Planner. You get seven boxes, one for each day, plus an eighth we'll come to. Each event shows its time and title. All-day things, like a school closure or someone's trip, sit at the top of their day as coloured bands, and Saturday and Sunday are marked so the weekend can't sneak up on you.

The Planner showing a family's week: seven day boxes with events, and a Different this week box

A busy day shows what fits and counts the rest in its corner. Tap any event, or the count, and the whole day opens in a sheet. Tap empty space to add an event on that day. A day with nothing in it shows a sun and "Free day". Guard it.

The box to read first​

The eighth box is called "Different this week". It doesn't repeat football practice; you know football is on Tuesday. It lists what breaks the pattern: the trip, the school closure, the lesson that moved, the class that was cancelled. In an ordinary week it says "The usual week." and leaves you alone.

That's on purpose. Researchers who studied family calendars found that their real job is awareness: helping everyone notice activities and changes so the family can coordinate (Neustaedter and Brush, 2006). Another study found that coordination breaks down far more often on the days a family departs from its routine (Davidoff and colleagues, 2011). So the Planner says where a moved event used to be, "was 5 pm" or "was Tue", and collects every change in one box.

Small things​

  • Pinch to make everything bigger or smaller, and KashCal remembers the size.
  • Swipe for next week, tap the title to jump to a date, pull down to sync.
  • It follows your settings: the day your week starts on, 12- or 24-hour time, emojis, declined events, and the calendars you've hidden in the drawer.
  • On a phone held sideways, or a tablet, the boxes spread out into four columns.

The present is still your job. At least now you'll see Saturday coming.