SideSchedule is a Mac calendar sidebar that pushes your windows out of its way and saves meeting notes as Markdown
A one-person Austrian app fakes the Dock's reserved strip with one Accessibility permission, then writes every meeting note into your Obsidian-ready folder.
Most calendar apps lose to the window you’re working in. SideSchedule’s pitch is the opposite: the calendar stays put, and everything else makes room.
The developer’s page says it “reserves a strip of screen the way the Dock does,” built for “the fifteen times a day I need to know what’s next without hunting for it.” Apple never gave regular apps a way to claim screen space like the Dock can, the page explains, so SideSchedule fakes it. Any window that tries to slide under the sidebar gets nudged back out. That works through one permission, Accessibility, under System Settings, Privacy & Security, and the app says it never reads window content and only repositions frames. There are no background daemons and no kernel extensions.
The calendar side uses Apple’s EventKit, so whatever Apple Calendar can see (iCloud, Google, Exchange, CalDAV) shows up, and you can read, create, rename, delete and drag events to reschedule. It detects Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex and FaceTime links in the location, URL or notes field and gives a one-tap join, opening the native app when it’s installed. Auto-hide shrinks the bar to a sliver that still shows a live meeting’s join button and countdown. The header shows your next free 30 minutes, such as 14.
The feature that makes it more than a sidebar is notes. You type next to the invite during the call, and each note is saved as a standalone .md file with YAML frontmatter (title, date, time, calendar, tags) in a folder you pick. The page says Obsidian, Logseq or any local AI tool can read them, and recurring meetings get per-occurrence notes, so last week’s standup doesn’t overwrite this week’s. It can also run a Shortcuts automation when a meeting starts and another when it ends, by default only for events with a meeting link.
On privacy, the page says events and notes stay on your Mac, and the only network calls are license validation through Lemon Squeezy and update checks through GitHub, with no analytics or telemetry.
The limits are listed plainly. Native fullscreen apps don’t work properly yet: the sidebar draws over them instead of shrinking them. There is no refund promise, because the trial unlocks every feature. A license covers three Macs. After the trial, the sidebar stops appearing, but notes, settings and exported files stay where they are.
The maker’s own comparison table puts it against Sidebar at €19.99 once, Dato at $18, and free options such as Itsycal and Notion Calendar. The page notes its prices and features were checked in October 2026 and tells readers to confirm on each maker’s site. Treat that table as the seller’s own.
The roadmap on the page is marked as not a promise, including attendee names as wiki links and an on-device meeting summary that would ship only if it stays local. Buy it for what it does today.
A Dock for one app, written by one person, for the price of a lunch.