For designers

A calendar that protects the work

If you make things for a living, the hardest hours to protect are your own. Client work has deadlines. Your zine, your side project, your craft, they have only you. Renard is built to guard exactly that.

Most calendars help you fit more in. That is the opposite of the problem.

When you freelance, the trouble is rarely that you forgot a meeting. It is that the paying work quietly grows until it fills everything, and the work you actually left your old job to do keeps slipping to next week. A normal calendar will happily let that happen. It just shows you the slots.

Renard is not a scheduler that pushes you to do more. It is a companion that helps you notice what is being crowded out, while you can still do something about it.

It remembers what you wanted to protect

Tell Renard "I want to keep my mornings for the zine this month," and it holds onto that. Then, at the end of the week, it can tell you the truth:

"You spent fifteen hours on the Lume project this week, the most since you started. Your zine got none. Last week you said you wanted to protect your mornings for it. You also have not seen Sara in ten days." An example of a Renard weekly letter

There is no scolding in it, and no productivity score. Just a clear, gentle mirror, so the choice stays yours.

Your rhythm is yours

Plenty of creatives do their best work at hours the productivity world disapproves of. A music producer we designed for makes everything between midnight and three in the morning, and has no wish to change that. Renard does not treat a late start as a failure. It reads your real rhythm and gives you insights that fit your life, not a template built for someone else's morning routine.

"I am most creative between midnight and three. I do not want to fix that." The kind of person Renard is built for

A canvas, not just a grid

Design thinking rarely fits in rows and columns. Renard gives you a freeform canvas where a whole project can sit beside your week: a client build in one space, the personal project in another, the someday ideas off to the side. You arrange your life the way you arrange a moodboard, and the calendar lives inside that, instead of the other way around.

The details are considered, too. Renard is made by people who care about craft, so it is a calm and pleasant place to spend time, which matters when you look at it every day.

Common questions

Do I need to give up my current calendar?

No. Keep whatever you use for client invites. Renard is for the part of your creative life that a logistics calendar was never meant to hold.

Will it nag me?

No. Renard is a pal, not a coach. It shows you what is happening and trusts you to decide. No streaks, no guilt, no push to optimize.