MultiLayered Calendars

The essay argues that calendars should natively distinguish event types and support multiple layers, so that time is managed in three dimensions rather than as a flat grid of mutually exclusive blocks. It proposes tasks, meetings, blocked time and activities as separate layers, and suggests that health, sleep and listening data could be visualized alongside them. Raphael Schaad, founder of Cron, is cited as pointing out the missing "activities" layer, which covers events like flights that need attention only at certain moments. The author notes that current tools such as Outlook and Google Calendar have changed little, and that Amie treats every calendar event as a task, which the essay considers insufficient.