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Stable meaning
A color should mean the same thing in notes, calendar feeds, dashboards, widgets, and team workflows.
Organizational method
Color as an operational signal.
Super-Calendar uses color, emoji, glyphs, and calendar metadata as a compact language for work, notes, events, money, health, delegation, and uncertainty. The goal is cognitive compression: a person should understand the intent of an item before reading the full text.
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Fast triage
Urgency, ownership, cadence, and category should be visible before a person opens the item.
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Portable signals
The same concept should survive plain text, ICS, JSON, widgets, CLI output, and low-level devices.
Core Palette
Personal and operational categories
Red · Immediate Action
Urgent, high-importance, attention-demanding work.
Orange · Recurring Events
Periodic events, reminders, birthdays, and repeating obligations.
Yellow · Notes
Capture, memory, scratchpad, and post-it style information.
Brown · Work
Labor, companies, clients, operational context, and business records.
Green · Value
Money, exchange, finance, income, cost, and economic movement.
Purple · Learning
Formal study, personal learning, language practice, and knowledge work.
Blue · Projects
Longer-running subjects that deserve dedicated tracking.
Black · Personal Records
Identity, documents, personal context, and private reference material.
White · Health
Medication, exercise, nutrition, symptoms, and body routines.
Transparent · Other
Neutral catch-all items that should not distort the primary categories.
Calendar Layer
Extra signals for time-based systems
Pink · Home
Household, family logistics, home records, pets, and domestic responsibilities.
Gray · External Variables
Things the user observes but does not control, such as weather or provider data.
Cyan · Delegated Context
Items created, handled, or affected by another person, assistant, team, or system.
Markers
Compact calendar delimiters
Reminder
Short-horizon reminders and date-specific tasks.
Recurring obligation
Monthly or periodic items such as bills, rent, taxes, and planned obligations.
Milestone
Long-horizon memory, anniversaries, important personal dates, and historical anchors.
Workflow
From personal notes to team execution
The same model can power personal notes, company spaces, support triage, Kanban stages, booking events, and IDE-driven task updates. A meeting description, a calendar event, or a task checkbox can become a structured record without forcing the user to write administrative summaries by hand.
- Capture the item with a stable category and color.
- Attach time when the item becomes actionable.
- Expose it through calendar, dashboard, widget, CLI, or I/O projection.
- Let humans and agents update status without losing audit context.