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A calendar that knows some hours are harder than others
Google Calendar thinks a job interview and a lunch break are the same object: a rectangle with a start and an end. For a lot of people that is simply untrue, and it is why a day that looked fine on screen can be unsurvivable in practice.
The hours around it are the problem
A hard thing at 2pm does not occupy 2pm. It occupies the morning you spent unable to settle, and it occupies the rest of the afternoon you spent recovering from it. On a normal calendar all of that time reads as free, so it gets booked — usually by you, in advance, being optimistic.
The result is a familiar and avoidable shape: three commitments in a row where two of them were fine and the middle one meant you were no use for any of them. Nothing was overbooked by the numbers. It was overbooked by the reality.
What Meloa reserves
Lockout time before
A reserved window ahead of the event where nothing else can be booked. Not a reminder — an actual block, so the hour you needed to get ready doesn't quietly get filled by something that looked free.
Decompression time after
The same again on the other side. The meeting ends at three; you are not a person who can start something new at three. That gap is a real requirement, and it usually only exists if something puts it there.
Transit, both directions
If the thing requires travel, the travel is on the calendar as its own block — including the trip home, which is the one everybody forgets and then resents.
Scaled to the rating
You give the event a number out of 100 for how hard you expect it to be. The harder you said, the more room you get. A dentist appointment and a coffee with a friend stop being the same shape.
All of it is free, permanently, and none of it requires a card. It is the part of the product that has to work for anyone, because a guardrail you have to pay for is a guardrail that fails exactly when someone is least able to justify the spend.
Seeing the day as a shape
A vertical list is a poor way to answer “how much room do I actually have.” The Sun Dial lays the whole day around a clock face instead — guarded windows, open space, and the thing you are dreading, all in one glance. If you lose track of time, or a list of rows never quite becomes a sense of a day, this is the view built for that.
There are day, week, month and year views as well, and unlimited events on every plan.
Then it asks how it went
The rating you gave beforehand is not only used to size the buffers. Once the event is over, Meloa asks for a second number — how it actually landed. Over a few events those two numbers become a comparison, and the comparison is usually the most useful thing the app ever shows you. Why the two numbers rarely match, and what the 0–100 scale is.
Put the next hard thing on a calendar that plans around it.
Free to use, every day — no card, ever.
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