I Forgot I Had a Recording on Tuesday

By Junaid Ahmed

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Not forgot in a way that cost me anything. The guest showed up, I showed up, we recorded.

But I'd spent Monday planning my week around a Tuesday that I thought was open. And it wasn't.

The booking was right there in PodGlue the whole time. I just hadn't opened it. That's the honest version, not a bug, not a missed notification, me not checking a page.

After 700-plus episodes I know what I do here. I check the calendar when I'm about to record. I don't check it when I'm deciding what my week looks like. Those are two different moments, and only one of them was covered.

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What shipped

Monday morning, you get one email. It lists every recording confirmed on your calendar for the next seven days, grouped by day.

That's it. That's the whole feature.

The part I want to point at is what happens when the week is empty: nothing gets sent. No "you have 0 recordings this week." No cheerful nudge to go book someone.

That single decision is why the email is on by default for everyone. It can't turn into noise. If it lands in your inbox, there's something in it, and after a few weeks you stop reading it as a notification and start reading it as information.

I've turned off a lot of software's weekly emails. Almost always because they kept arriving when they had nothing to say.

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What it looks like

Monday, 8am Eastern:

3 recordings this week, Hacks & Hobbies

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 1:30pm, Robert Kennedy III · 45-Minute Podcast Interview

Thursday, August 13, 2026 10:00am, Sarah Chen · 30-Minute Discovery Call 2:00pm, Marcus Webb · 45-Minute Podcast Interview

Times are in your timezone.

That sounds obvious. It wasn't. PodGlue stores the timezone your guest picked when they booked, which is the right thing to store, and exactly the wrong thing to show you. A guest in Tokyo books a slot, and if I'd rendered your week off their zone, your email would tell you 3:30am for a recording you're doing after lunch.

So there's now a place to keep your timezone, separate from theirs. Your browser tells us once, quietly, the next time you open your notification settings. And every time the email prints a time it prints the zone next to it, EDT, PST, whatever you're in, because a bare "1:30pm" is exactly the kind of thing you glance at and get wrong.

If we don't know your zone yet, it falls back to the booking's, then to UTC, and still labels it. You'll never get an unlabeled time from us.

The booking type reads however you named it, too. If you've set up a "Strategy Session" alongside your interviews, it says Strategy Session, not our generic word for it.

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The bug I shipped and then fixed

The first version sent every email at the same moment worldwide. Monday morning if you're in the US. About 1am Tuesday if you're in New Zealand.

Which meant that for a host far enough east, the "week ahead" email arrived after their Monday had already started, and the seven-day window starts counting from the moment it sends, so their Monday recordings weren't in it. The email quietly skipped a day, and only for people on the other side of the planet from me.

That's the kind of bug you don't find by testing. You find it by someone in Auckland telling you, six weeks later, that the Monday email is useless.

It now runs every hour and only sends to hosts whose own clock says Monday morning. Same one email a week, on your Monday.

Small detail that decided the send hour: 8am. Not because 8am is special, but because daylight saving shifts happen around 1–3am. An hour near the switch either doesn't exist that day or happens twice, which is a host silently missing a week, or getting the same email twice. 8am happens exactly once on every Monday of the year.

You can turn the whole thing off in Settings → Notifications, and there's a link at the bottom of every email that takes you straight there. I'd rather you switch it off than start ignoring it.

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There's a version of this feature that's a dashboard. A page you open, with your week on it.

I didn't build that, because I already had one, and the problem was never that the information didn't exist. It was that looking at it required remembering to look.

The conversation is the product. Walking into Monday knowing what's coming is a small thing, but it's the difference between planning a week and reacting to one, and that's the kind of thing PodGlue is supposed to carry for you.