3-Line Calendar for Watch Face

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I had a pain point with my watch, so I built something to address it.A watch should do one thing well, and today it doesn't: help me avoid missing my next meeting/event. That's it. Fashion and decoration are secondary. Even knowing what time it is is secondary. The original reason for a watch is to get to the next thing on time.And this wasn't really possible before smartwatches, since you couldn't connect the calendar. But now you can. Android Wear solved this a long time ago. For some reason, on Apple Watch I can't find a good native first-party or third-party option that simply shows the next few items on your screen.There's a one-line version built in, and I found a few third-party apps with a 3-line calendar. But most of them either ask you to pay, make you sign in, harvest your data, or trick you into some in-app purchase. I understand developers need to eat — so do I. But it's one thing to be transparent about it, and another to hide it.I'm sick and tired of that nonsense, so I built it myself — open source, Apache 2.0, completely free. No ads, no upsell, no nudges, no in-app purchase or subscription, nothing. You can audit the code yourself.It's a watchOS complication (accessoryRectangular) that reads from EventKit, and it now also ships iOS/iPad home + lock-screen widgets and a Mac widget (one universal app across platforms). Localized into 21 languages.See it here: https://threelinecal.apps.zzn.im/ and source code https://github.com/xinbenlv/three-line-calendar