No AI Calendar needed

CLIs are all you need

Do you know about those AI calendars that promise to take control of your schedule? Here’s how to do something similar in a very simple way.

Let’s say you have (a) deadline(s) and there’s a bunch of stuff you need to complete before that deadline.

WLOG, your deadline(s) could be (an) exam(s), and your checklist could be the syllabus.

Without any fancy AI calendar and/or other MCP bs, you can just use any LLM CLI to create a simple schedule draft and import it to a new temporary calendar in the client of your choice.

1. Install Claude Code, Gemini CLI, or whatever your favourite LLM CLI is

2. Ask something like

   Today is October 10th, 2025. I have a Multivariable Calculus exam on October 30th and an Astronomy exam on November 4th. I am currently preparing for the exams. I will attach a sample Multivariable Calculus exam. I am familiar with Single Variable Calculus but I’m pretty much starting from scratch for Multivariable Calculus. The Astronomy exam will be an oral exam about the entire syllabus. Create a day-by-day hour-by-hour schedule for me to get ready and ace both exams. In the end, create an ics file ready to be imported in any calendar client.

   

3. You will now have an ics file in your working directory, so you can just go, for example, on Google Calendar, create a new calendar, and import it

   

4. Now you can visualize a draft of your schedule, which will make it look less intimidating and make you more effective

   

   

Boom. No AI calendar needed.

Let’s work on more crucial problems, not AI calendars.