For parents

Where did the week go?

Last updated 31 July 2026

Your calendar is already full, and most of it was put there by other people. What is usually missing is not organisation. It is any reliable sense of what the week contained once it is over, and whether the parts you actually care about got any of it.

First, what this is not

Renard is not a shared family calendar. There is no household view, no co-parent sync, no child accounts, no chore chart. If you came looking for one calendar the whole family can see and edit, stop here — a shared Google Calendar or one of the dedicated family apps will serve you better, and we would rather say that now than after you have spent an evening setting things up.

Renard holds one person's life: yours. That turns out to be the thing that goes missing when there are small people in the house.

You are not short of efficiency advice

There is no shortage of tools that will help you fit more into a day, and if you are a parent you have probably tried several. Renard is not one of them. It has no auto-scheduling, no streaks, no badges, and it will never suggest you wake up earlier.

What it does is closer to keeping records honestly. You use the calendar normally, and because events can be started, paused and resumed, the hours it holds are hours that really happened rather than hours you meant to have. You tell it what matters to you — not as goals, in ordinary sentences. Once a week it writes you a letter comparing the two.

"Work ran past seven on four evenings this week, which is the most since March. Bedtime happened twice. In February you told me being there at bedtime was the one you did not want to lose." An example of a Renard weekly letter

There is no advice at the end of that, and no plan. Some weeks work runs late because it has to. The useful part is knowing it happened four times rather than feeling vaguely that it happened a lot.

Things that are not appointments

Most of what parents want more of does not look like a calendar entry. Reading two chapters instead of one. Not checking your phone at the table. Being the one who takes them to swimming rather than the one who hears about it. These are not tasks, they have no deadline, and a to-do list makes them look like chores, which is the fastest way to stop wanting to do them.

In Renard they are values, written in your own words, and the weekly letter measures against them directly. Nothing gets ticked off. Nothing accumulates a streak that you can break.

There is also a freeform canvas alongside the calendar, so a house move, a child starting school and the thing you keep meaning to do for yourself can each sit in their own space, in whatever shape they actually have. A space can be shared with a link if you want someone to see it, and nothing else in your account can.

The part about yourself

The pattern Renard tends to surface for parents is not that the children are missing out. It is that the person keeping the whole thing running has vanished from their own week. Everything logged belongs to work or to someone else, and the hour that was supposed to be yours has quietly not existed since spring.

It will point that out. It will not tell you to fix it, because a week with a newborn or a hard term at school is not a personal failure. But it is easier to protect something once you can see the exact shape of its absence.

Common questions

Can I share it with my partner?

Only a canvas space, by link, if you choose to. There is no shared calendar and no ongoing access for anyone else.

Will it make me feel guilty?

It is designed not to. No streaks, no scores, no targets to miss. It reports and asks, and it does not chase.

Do I need to log everything?

No. Record the things you actually want to see. A sparse week just makes for a shorter letter.

Does it work on my phone?

Android has a native app; on iPhone it runs in the browser and can be added to the home screen. There is no native iOS app yet.

What happens to my data?

It is not used to train AI models and never sold. See the privacy FAQ.