A private household prototype
Project Little Orbit brings shared calendars, everyday routines and a little encouragement to one family board.
It runs on a household’s own hardware. Adults can connect their Google calendars, choose what appears, and keep the day in view.
How Calendar worksThe Google Calendar connection
An adult connects their Google account from the local Project Little Orbit settings and selects calendars, people and date coverage. Selected events can appear in the year, day and household views.
Other household functions can be used without connecting Google. This public website has no Calendar sign-in.
Calendars can be read-only. Where an adult allows board edits and Google confirms write access, supported one-off events can be created or edited in an explicitly selected calendar.
The shared Family calendar can be that destination. Recurring events and invitations remain view-only on the board in this prototype; manage those in Google Calendar.
Automatic refresh keeps connected calendars current while the board is online. Offline views retain the last successful data, and supported edits can remain queued until they can be sent. Check the board’s sync status before relying on an update.
Kept close to home
Calendar records and connection credentials live on the household’s Project Little Orbit server and in household-controlled private recovery copies. Household members with access to the board can see the calendars selected for it.
The public site explains the project and its data practices. Read the privacy policy for the permissions, storage, retention and disconnect details.
Read the privacy policy