PRODUCT CONCEPT · NOT FOR SALE (YET)

Almanac
refuses to glow.

It's the calendar from the fridge door. We just gave it Wi-Fi and took away the magnets.

Every "smart calendar" on the market nailed the syncing and forgot the actual point: nobody has ever fallen in love with a touchscreen. Almanac is matte, it's e-ink, and you write on it with an honest-to-god pen. Groundbreaking, we know.

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WI-FI MATTE E-INK MARCH 123 8910 1112 Sam's recital, 6pm SYNCED · GOOGLE · OUTLOOK · ICLOUD ALMANAC

THE COMPETITION

A $450 screen, another calendar app, and a magnet.

Skylight Calendar$450, and it needs charging
Other calendar appsFree, and nobody opens it
The fridge calendarA pen, a nail, undefeated since 1987


HOW IT WORKS

Type something. Watch it show up twice.

Pick a day, scribble an entry, hit add. It lands on the wall and syncs to the phone in your pocket. No apps, no logins, no "create an account to continue."

01 · SCRIBBLE

Write it down

Selected day: 24. Pick a different one in the calendar to the right.

try typing the word "birthday" 👀

02 · READ
WALL STYLE
Clean Handwritten

TAP A DAY.

03 · SYNC

It's everyone's problem now

CALENDAR

Nothing here yet.


THE HONEST BIT

This is a concept I made up on a weekend. Please don't sue me, Skylight.

I built this the way I'd approach any real product problem: figure out what the incumbent optimised for, find the thing nobody built because it wasn't obviously a screen problem, and get annoyingly specific about the one decision that actually matters: two-way sync. The handwriting recognition is honestly the easy part. Also yes, I know the pen will get lost within a week. The rest of my actual, fundable, employer-approved work is on my CV.

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