The Concept of Calendars and Their Potential Evolution

Throughout the annals of technological advancement, some tools have undergone dramatic metamorphoses, adapting to the rapidly shifting needs of society. Kevin’s <a href="https://kwokchain.com/2019/08/16/the-arc-of-collaboration/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">depiction</a> of the evolution of digital collaboration offers a vivid snapshot of this progression. In the early digital age, a document was handed from one person to another through email. Person A would draft, Person B would edit, and then a Doc v2 would be sent again like a digital ping pong game. Then the paradigm shifted, enter Dropbox. Suddenly, the documents were in the cloud, floating freely and all the edits were on the same document, no more versioning nightmares. But while the document danced in real-time, communication lagged behind. Enter Google Docs. It merged the document’s dynamism with a real-time discussion. Just as we saw documents evolve in form and functionality, calendars too deserve a closer look. Have they truly progressed from their traditional forms? Sure, they transitioned from physical pages to pixels, but we observe the same grids, the same layouts. Yes, they now have notifications, color-coding and they are shareable, but can we confidently say this is an evolution comparable to our documents and the nature of collaboration’s transformation? One might argue that the essence of a calendar is so fundamental that the core cannot be changed. But isn’t communication equally, if not more, fundamental? The static journey of the calendars is not a testament to its perfection but an echoing silence of missed opportunities. When I stumbled upon Julian’s essay “<a href="https://julian.digital/2023/07/06/multi-layered-calendars/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Multi-layered calendars</a>”, it felt like a light bulb moment for me. I highly resonated with it because it felt like someone had taken my disorganized and messy thoughts and transformed them into a perfectly structured essay. I usually read Greeks and the Classics, I am not much of an article reader and I don’t exactly remember when or where I first encountered it. But I remember after reading it, I posted something on “<a href="https://posts.cv/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Posts</a>”, I was hungry for more insights on software and the digital tools and their potentials, it made me want to read more. Witnessing Julian’s essay about note-taking softwares and then observing it crystallize into a software like “<a href="https://lazy.so/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Lazy</a>” is a testament to visionary thinking. Same goes for Kevin’s essay about collaboration and later seeing them embodied in the “<a href="https://multi.app/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Multi</a>” app, it is truly remarkable. <a href="https://medium.com/@omeruzun/the-concept-of-calendars-and-their-potential-evolution-3f50a95bed68">Read More</a>