The Agenda view & why there’s no calendar

StudiFoca doesn’t have a calendar view. That’s a deliberate omission, not a missing feature.

What a calendar assumes

A calendar’s whole layout is built around a grid of days that all look the same size, whether Tuesday has one thing due or six. That works fine for scheduling meetings. It works badly for coursework, where the real question usually isn’t what date is it but how much is actually landing on me this week, and where.

What the Agenda shows instead

The Agenda is a flat, day-by-day list — class meetings, then whatever’s due — that only shows you days with something in them, in the order they’re coming.


A day with one class and two items due. No empty grid cells, no need to scroll past a week of nothing to find the next thing that matters.

The workload heat map

Frequency and density are exactly what a list is bad at showing at a glance, which is what the heat map is for: a week, month, or full-term view shaded by how much is due each day.


A run of red days signals real crunch, not just “something’s due” — the same way a glance at a weather map tells you more than reading seven separate forecasts in a row.

Seeing the shape of a term this way — where the heavy stretches actually are — is the whole point. It’s meant to be looked at once and understood, the same way a temperature map communicates faster than a table of numbers would.

For how the scheduler decides which day a given step’s work actually lands on, see How the scheduler thinks.

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