We make a calendar. This feed schedules nothing.

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.

The opposite of an appointment

Everything else on your calendar wants something. Be here at nine. Leave by ten. Call the dentist you have been avoiding since the last note about the dentist. A calendar is a to-do list that learned to wear colored blocks and bill by the hour.

Unscheduled Thoughts is the one entry that wants nothing back. Every few days it adds a single all-day note and then leaves you alone. Some are kind ("You are not behind. Time is just ambitious."). Some are less kind ("You rescheduled it again. Bold. Committed. To not doing it."). One simply notes that "'Gym' has repeated weekly since March. The event is the consistent part." It means well, mostly.

It lives in the all-day row and marks itself transparent, so it never blocks your day and never argues with the meetings that do. Your free time stays free. It is a note in the margin, not another thing on the pile.

Why the scheduling people built anti-scheduling

We are the kind of people who fold calendar-feed lines at 75 characters because a spec from 1998 said to. We put that same seriousness into a feed that exists to tell you to drink water ("Coffee is an argument, not water"). Every note is a clean, standards-compliant calendar event carrying no productivity value at all.

A calendar is very good at telling you what is on. It has nothing to say about how you are holding up while you get through it. We sell the first part. Unscheduled Thoughts is a small and unserious go at the second, on the one screen you already check more than you would admit.

So take it as a gift, and we mean it. It is free. No account, nothing to install, no data leaving anywhere, because it is a plain calendar feed with nowhere to phone home to. We could not spy on you if we tried, and we did not build the part where we try. It is not here to sell you our app either. It works in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, and KashCal. Bring whatever calendar you already resent. This one comes with no strings, and with no us.

Subscribe in about ten seconds

Point any calendar app that does subscriptions at this address:

https://kashcal.onekash.org/unscheduled-thoughts.ics

In KashCal it is one tap. Our latest release opens webcal:// links straight from the feed's page, which is a fancy way of saying the button finally works. New notes arrive on their own every few days. No push notifications, no badge, no "you have not opened Unscheduled Thoughts in a while."

It is the only calendar invite you will never have to decline, reschedule, or pretend you did not see. Add Unscheduled Thoughts to your calendar. It asks you for nothing, which by the standards of your calendar makes it the kindest thing on there.