Protect free evenings
Your week fills up because nothing is holding any of it back.
Every single thing you said yes to was reasonable. That is the problem: no calendar has ever been on the side of the evening you were saving. Livnly holds one to three a week for you.
Nobody books a full week on purpose
It happens one yes at a time, three weeks out, when the evening is still an abstraction. Your calendar shows you an empty Thursday and answers the only question it knows how to answer: is anything else on. Nothing else is on. So you say yes.
Then the week arrives and every night has something in it, and not one of those things is the thing you would have cut. A calendar built for work does this to you honestly, because at work an empty slot really is availability. In the rest of your life an empty evening is often the entire point of the week, and it is the only thing in your calendar with nothing defending it.
How Livnly holds an evening
You give it a number. It works out which evenings have to stay free for that number to still be reachable, and marks those.
- You pick a number
- One, two or three evenings a week. It is off by default and stays off until you turn it on, because a calendar that starts refusing things you did not ask it to refuse is a calendar you fight.
- They stay spread out
- Livnly keeps your evenings non-consecutive: three protected evenings means three separate nights across the week, not Friday, Saturday and Sunday in a row. A free run at the weekend is not the same thing as a free week, and the second one is what actually rests you.
- It holds as little as possible
- An evening is only held when holding it is the last way left to reach your number. Early in the week, when there is plenty of room, almost nothing is held and you book as normal. The holds appear as the week fills, which is exactly when you need to see them.
- Evenings already spent still count
- A quiet Monday you actually had is banked toward the week. Livnly is not asking you to protect evenings you already enjoyed, so the arithmetic only runs over the nights still ahead of you.
- You can pin a specific night
- If Thursday is the one that matters, say so, and Livnly fills the rest of your number around it rather than negotiating with you about which nights are yours.
- It never actually stops you
- A held evening is marked in the day and week views with a small chip that says what it is holding and why. Tap it and it explains itself. Book over it and it lets you, every time. It is a hold, not a lock: the point is that giving the evening away is a decision you make rather than one that happens to you.
What it does not do
- It does not decline anything for you, or answer anyone on your behalf. Nothing is sent, nothing is refused, and nobody on the other end of an invitation ever learns that your Thursday was being held.
- It does not put a block on your real calendar. Nothing is written to iCloud, Google or Outlook, so a held evening is invisible to your colleagues and to every other app you own. It exists in Livnly and nowhere else.
- It does not scold you. Booking over a held evening costs you nothing, is never held against you afterwards, and does not turn into a number you are asked to feel something about.
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