The product around it

Multi-user from the first line of code

Your stuff is yours, and the database itself enforces it.

Keeping your data apart is the database's job, not something our code has to remember to do. 18 automated tests sign in as one person and try to read, edit, delete and plant another person's rows — Google tokens included. Every one gets refused.

The honest version

Two real people haven't used the live app side by side yet.

No cron, no background jobs

Nothing has to stay awake for your schedule to be right.

Your calendar refreshes when you actually look at it. Fewer moving parts, and nothing that can quietly stop working at 3am.

The honest version

The iPhone does let iOS wake it now and then for a quick look, so the Inbox count on the icon, the widget and your reminders don't go stale while the app's closed. iOS decides when. Nothing depends on it happening, and your plan is still worked out when you look — including when you come back to the app after more than a minute away, so there's no need to pull down to catch up.

Put it on your dock or Home Screen

YWGSD can sit on your dock and your Home Screen like any other app, from the browser, today.

The web app does everything, but living in a browser tab means hunting for it among forty others, and it goes wherever your tabs go. Installing it gives YWGSD its own icon, its own window and no address bar, so it opens the way an app opens. Nothing to download and nothing to sign into twice — it's the same account you're already using. While the iPhone app is still in review, this is how to have it on your phone.

How to use it

Sign in first, so the installed app opens on your calendar rather than the sign-up page.

  • Chrome or Edge, on a Mac or PC. Look for the install icon at the right-hand end of the address bar and click it. If it isn't there, use the browser menu: in Chrome, Save and share → Install page as app; in Edge, Apps → Install this site as an app. It lands in your Applications folder, and you can drag it to the dock.
  • Safari, on a Mac. File → Add to Dock.
  • iPhone or iPad, any browser. Open YWGSD, tap the share button, then Add to Home Screen. Safari, Chrome, Edge and Firefox can all do this (iOS 16.4 and later).

Install it twice, if you want. Do it from the Inbox and you get a second icon called Jot it down that opens straight to the capture box — a thought takes one tap and three seconds, with nothing else in the way. Do it from anywhere else and you get YWGSD, which opens your calendar. Both are the same account, and you can keep one or both. On a Mac or PC you can also right-click the YWGSD icon in the dock or taskbar and pick Jot it down.

The honest version

This is the website in its own window, not the iPhone app. You don't get the Home Screen widget, the Siri and Action Button capture, or the icon's inbox count, because those are things only an installed app from the App Store can do — the Jot it down icon here opens the Inbox in one tap, which is close, but it still opens an app rather than capturing without one. Everything else — the calendar, the Inbox, the once-over, your tasks and settings — is the same. An installed web app also needs a connection. The iPhone app is the one that works offline.

One scheduling engine

The web app and the iPhone app can't disagree about your day, because only one of them decides it.

One piece of code decides where work goes, covered by 176 tests — most of them written from the spec by people who never read the code. The apps draw what it says and send changes back. Neither one works out a plan of its own.