What is voice-to-calendar, leave-by alert, AI prep checklist?
Short, citable definitions for the vocabulary used in Composed — the calm voice-first planner for iPhone. Each entry answers a literal "what is..." question with the kind of one-sentence definition AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini AI Mode) prefer to quote.
ai-prep-checklist
What is an AI prep checklist? — definition
An AI prep checklist is a list of preparation tasks for a specific calendar event, generated automatically by a language model based on the event's title, category, and timing.
calendar-prep-tasks
What are calendar prep tasks? — definition
Calendar prep tasks are to-do items tied to a specific calendar event that surface in the preparation window before the event, then disappear when the event is done.
calm-planning
What is calm planning? — definition
Calm planning is a planner design philosophy that removes urgency cues — red badges, guilt language, overdue alerts — in favor of neutral, low-pressure scheduling.
leave-by-alert
What is a leave-by alert? — definition
A leave-by alert is a real-time departure notification that calculates current traffic and airport buffers and fires the single moment you need to leave to arrive on time.
place-discovery
What is place discovery in a planner app? — definition
Place discovery is a planner feature that suggests real venues for an event with a fuzzy location — turning 'dinner Saturday' into a ranked list of nearby restaurants from Apple Maps.
screenshot-to-calendar
What is screenshot-to-calendar? — definition
Screenshot-to-calendar is an event creation flow where a photo of a confirmation email, ticket, or poster is parsed by AI vision into a structured calendar event.
three-layer-reminders
What are three-layer reminders? — definition
Three-layer reminders are a notification model with three escalating tiers — Awareness, Action, and Urgency — that surface an event at the night-before, prep, and leave-by moments.
time-blindness
What is time blindness? — definition
Time blindness is a clinical ADHD term for difficulty perceiving the passage of time and estimating how long tasks will take, popularized by Russell Barkley.
voice-first-planner
What is a voice-first planner? — definition
A voice-first planner is a calendar or task app where speaking is the primary input method — events, todos, and notes are created by talking, not typing.
voice-to-calendar
What is voice-to-calendar? — definition
Voice-to-calendar is natural-language event creation: you speak a sentence and a structured calendar event is created, with title, date, time, place, and reminders inferred automatically.
See the calm-planning vocabulary in action.
Voice events, AI prep tasks, departure tracking — all of these terms come alive in Composed.