Thanks to everyone who's been using ScheduleHound early and helping me work through the kinks — it genuinely makes the product better. We (I) have updated our Terms of Use to support a set of new features designed to improve the usability and reliability of the program. These features are coming to everyone very soon (hopefully today).
Here's what they're about. The theme is trust: being able to see exactly where every deadline came from, and being able to count on it actually making it onto your calendar.
See where every deadline came from
The biggest usability change: every deadline ScheduleHound pulls in the Scanner and Inbox now shows you exactly where it came from in the document.
- Next to each date, you'll see the exact quote and page number it was pulled from, with a confidence badge (Exact, Located, Page only) so you know how precisely we mapped it.
- Click "Show source" and you get a tight crop of that spot in the document — the deadline, the date, and the surrounding language, nothing else to dig through.
- And if the quoted phrase doesn't match the document character-for-character, we hide the quote and show only the page, rather than ever show you something the document doesn't actually say. You check it yourself in seconds.
Verify right from your inbox
Confirmation emails now include image crops of the source document — one per deadline — embedded right in the message. You can check a hearing date against the actual court order without even opening the app. The crops live inside the email itself: no external image server, no tracking pixel.
Calendar entries you can count on
Reading a date correctly only matters if it actually lands on your calendar, so we've been hardening that whole path:
- No duplicate events. Every write is tagged so that if ScheduleHound ever has to retry, it updates the same event instead of creating a second one.
- Dropped writes get retried automatically — and any write that still fails shows up on your dashboard, so a failure is something you see, not something that quietly disappears.
- What's next: rather than just trust a "success" reply from Google or Microsoft, ScheduleHound will use its existing calendar access to go back and confirm the event actually landed — closing the loop on every entry. That's the next reliability step on the way.