A calendar designed to help you spend time better

👋 Hello Product Hunt!

Mayday is a new kind of calendar that we've created to help people spend time in better ways.

The single most important tool we use to manage our time is the calendar (which might explain why there seems to be a new calendar or scheduling app announced on Product Hunt every week 🤷 ).

However, we don't believe that building just a prettier or faster version of the same old calendar will help address the challenges we're facing with our schedules.

For many of us, our calendars feel broken because we're in too many meetings or too many back-to-back Zoom calls. Or fragmented days that make it challenging to get deep work done. Or wasted time going back and forth trying to schedule a simple meeting. What's more, from personal events to undocumented to-dos, our calendars are not a comprehensive record of how we will be spending our time.

We're building empathetic productivity software, and I'm excited to share a bit more about what Mayday can do:

▪️ True Availability: Empty space ≠ free space. Smarter scheduling requires a deeper understanding of the events in your calendar and how you want to spend your time.

▪️ Adaptive Scheduling: We need to rethink how meetings are scheduled to facilitate more efficient and dynamic collaboration between people. With Adaptive Scheduling, meetings can be created using parameters (e.g., "this week" or "in the afternoon") instead of just being booking at specific times.

▪️ Calendar Shield: Your calendar should automatically protect your schedule, so you always have time to get things done before your day gets filled with meetings.

▪️ Unified Timeline: All of your calendar accounts should co-exist peacefully in a single timeline, without duplicate events or excess noise. Mayday currently supports Google Calendar, with Outlook and iCloud support in the works and coming soon.

▪️ Smart Notifications: Maintaining an effective schedule requires more than basic reminder notifications 10 minutes before your next meeting. Instead, your calendar should alert you of potential issues before they blow up your day.

▪️ Native Apps: Accessing your calendar from all devices is essential, and you shouldn't need to hunt for a browser tab to use it. We currently support macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. Windows and Android are coming soon.

▪️ Privacy-by-Design: Your data belongs to you. Mayday can help you take control of your schedule without needing to know every specific detail of what's in your calendar.

While Mayday is currently in private beta, we're onboarding new users each week, and we won't have a waitlist forever.

In the meantime, here's a post that shares more about our goals with Mayday and the way we're creating a new kind of calendar for the modern world: https://medium.com/maydaylabs/th...

😸 Thanks everyone - let us know what you think!