An event starts as a sentence. "Dentist next Thursday at ten." "Standup every weekday at nine." "Rent, last day of the month." You already have the whole thing in your head, in order, done.

Then most calendar apps make you take it apart. Title in this box. Tap the date field. Spin a time wheel. Open a second screen labeled "Repeat" and hunt for the right radio button. You arrive knowing exactly what you meant and leave having filled out a form about it. KashCal just reads the sentence.

Software has one move: get you to do more, faster, with fewer gaps. Calendar apps are the sharp end of it, and we make one. So the obvious thing for us to build is another way to pack your day tighter.

Instead we built a feed whose only job is to put a note on your calendar that asks for nothing. No time, no place, no task. We called it Unscheduled Thoughts, and we are giving it away. Probably no calendar company has put out a joke as a subscription feed on purpose. We are not proud. We are a little proud.

Most apps greet you with a wall: sign in, or create an account. A calendar app doing that is quietly asking you to route your dentist appointments, your interviews, and your "lunch??" through a stranger's servers so it can hand them back to you later. KashCal never asks. There is no account, because there is nothing to sign into.

Since the beginning of KashCal, your events have been sorted the way a coat check sorts coats: by which calendar you flung them into, and not one thought more. This release lets you label them yourself. Meet tags.

Your agenda finally learned to read the room. Day in, day out, its top bar proudly announced "Agenda," heroically confirming that the agenda screen was, against all odds, the agenda screen. Thank you, brave label. It has now been reassigned.

Last release we gave you KashCal Teal and were very pleased with ourselves. Then someone pointed out the obvious: we had spent a whole update letting you choose your color, and then chose it for you. A calendar telling you your favorite color is teal is a bit like a waiter ordering for the table. Bold. Rarely correct.

This release is about making KashCal yours. Two new choices, both in Settings, one for how the app looks and one for how it shows up on your home screen.

For a while now, KashCal has had a quiet flaw: you could only use it by looking at it. It worked beautifully with your eyes, and went silent as a stone the moment you turned on a screen reader. A calendar that only works when you're watching it is, on reflection, a poster. So this release taught it to talk.

Dispatch from the lab, best known (of all things) for a calendar.

We keep meaning to invent something important. Then July 22 rolls around, the annual Pi Approximation Day party starts (the one where 22/7 gets to cosplay as π and nobody files a complaint), someone gets ideas, and we end up improving the calendar again. Here is what escaped this time.

Your calendar is the nosiest app on your phone. It knows about the dentist, the interview you told nobody about, and the event you just labeled "lunch??". It is a diary that schedules your life.

It is also the app that is wide open when you hand your unlocked phone to a friend to "just look at the photo."

KashCal now has App lock. Turn it on, and opening the app throws up a curtain.