You’re doing school calendars the hard way
TL/DR:
If you have kids in school, read on.
If you don’t, feel free to skip this one.
I’ve built a tool for you to get a PDF calendar into your digital calendar in just a couple clicks. And I’m sharing it with you (for free).
The Whole Shebang:
Every year, your kid’s school sends out a PDF calendar of “important dates”.
And then you have to spend an hour of your precious time painstakingly adding all these events to your digital calendar so you don’t accidentally send your kid to school on a teacher “in-service” date.
Or realize you’re booked for an important meeting on school conference day.
Or that you’ve bought plane tickets on the wrong dates because you thought that Spring Break was the week after.
Seriously, this PDF calendar (and it’s always a PDF) has been the bane of my existence for 10+ years.
(And I 100% recognize that if this is the bane of my existence, I’m leading a pretty good life!)
Every year, I ask for a digital calendar I can subscribe to.
Every year, they say no.
Every school, same story.
One year I even offered to make the subscribe-able calendar so that other parents could have it easier and I was turned away.
But no more!
A month or so ago I got a bee in my bonnet that said “if other people can vibe-code, why can’t you?”
And, so, ta-da!
I present you with a tool I built (my very first vibe-coding project!) to solve my own problem: getting that annoying PDF into my digital calendar in one fell swoop.
How does it work?:
You drop your PDF calendar into the tool.
It gives you a file that you can import into any digital calendar (Google, Apple, Outlook).
That’s it!
Ah the wonders of AI!
(Yes, I know there are lots of scary things about AI, too. But vibe-coding did feel pretty magical!)
And, I thought, I can’t be the only parent annoyed at this annual data entry ritual so, I’m sharing it with you.
And you? You can feel free to share it with anyone you want!
The only thing I ask:
If this tool makes you as happy as it makes me, will you shoot me a quick note to let me know.
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