What is a shared life planner?

It's easiest to define by what it isn't:

• Not a to-do app with sharing bolted on. To-do apps are built for one person; "sharing" usually means someone forwards you a screenshot of their list.
• Not a family calendar display. A calendar that shows the plan still leaves one person to do all the noticing, entering and maintaining. The calendar shows your week; it doesn't plan it.
• Not a work tool that follows you home. The moment dinner plans come with a board and someone to answer to, the relationship has a manager. Nobody wants to be someone's direct report at home.
• Not a scheduler that assumes your week repeats. Rosters drop, placements start, shifts swap. A planner built on "weekly recurring" breaks exactly when life gets hard.

The five criteria

A shared life planner is an app that meets all five. Weektide is being built to meet them, and this page says honestly how far along each one is.

1. A task and its time are one object.

   Shipped

   A to-do with a date isn't a note about time; it is time. In Weektide, tasks carry durations and sit on the same grid as events, so a 90-minute job takes 90 minutes of your week. List items land on the calendar in their list's colour, on both calendars when the list is shared.

2. Sharing is consent-based, with a privacy gradient.

   Shipped · deepening

   Sharing is an invitation you accept, not an account you're conscripted into. You choose which lists are shared; habits, focus and everything else stay yours. The first rung of the gradient shipped: mark a private task “Show as Busy” and they see you're busy from 3 to 5, but not why.

3. Plans are made against real capacity.

   Building

   A two-hour gap after a long shift is not two hours of energy. The first slice shipped: every day shows how much it really holds before you put more on it. The harder part is still being built: energy, commutes, recovery.

4. When a day collapses, the plan recovers.

   Shipped

   Instead of a wall of overdue red or a silent reshuffle behind your back, Weektide asks a calm question, “didn't go to plan?”, then walks you through a re-plan you approve, move by move. A bad day is something to recover from.

5. The app does the noticing, so no person has to.

   Shipped · v0

   The heaviest work in a shared life isn't doing the tasks; it's noticing them. “Add from Text” turns pasted emails, rosters and announcements into proposals you approve, on your device. Photos and PDFs come next, so the plan stops living in one person's head.