THIS PUBLICATION, as unlikely as it seems, is born out of laziness. Fussiness, crankiness and impatience, too.

Oh, and curiosity.

Despite being head over heels in love with Cambridge for a decade, I recently realized I wasn’t matching its creativity, or even recognizing its wonder in but the most distant way. There were fascinating, delightful events taking place daily within the city’s 7.1 square miles, but when it came to finding them and taking part or falling back on the trite and obvious, well, I fell back on the trite and obvious. There’s nothing wrong with seeing “Batman Begins,” but there’s no reason – here – to let such a thing become a habit.

The curiosity was about what alternatives Cambridge offered. The laziness, fussiness, crankiness and impatience were about not wanting to have to look to so many sources to get a good sampling.

Cantabrigians read about 45,000 newspapers a day, and another 69,000 a week. Each publication, from the Weekly Dig and Boston Phoenix to The Harvard Crimson and New YorkTimes, can offer clues as to what’s worth doing in Cambridge on a given day. None, not even the city’s combined weeklies, offered the amount of information I wanted or the format in which I wanted it. I would get one good idea from The Improper Bostonian and another from Craigslist, but what I really desired was a single publication that encouraged my laziest, most indulgent tendencies: an exhaustive calendar of Cambridge events that allowed me to wait until the last minute to decide what I wanted to do, or even what kind of thing I wanted to do.

I craved a friend whom I could ask, “What should I do for the next couple of hours?” and expect an answer other than, “I dunno. What do you want to do?” or “Let’s grab several publications, search through various categories of entertainment, struggle to find the pertinent dates and times and cross-reference them with how we get there and how much they cost.”

So listings in Cambridge Day are chronological, although there will be some events grouped by category as well, and there are keywords in each item to help readers do a quick scan and still find events of interest. If you’re looking for something to do Thursday at 10 p.m., there could be several things from which to choose; some of them would not be things you would think of on your own, but being offered them – and seeing they are affordable and only a walk or T ride away – may inspire you to attend an event you would otherwise ignore. Or never know about.

At last I will have the listings my laziness demands, every day, Monday through Friday. The trick will be finding the time to attend the events I have found.

It would be senseless not to take advantage of Cambridge Day’s daily nature to offer the city as much news, features and commentary as possible. So around the calendar listings giving Cambridge Day a reason for being will be, well, a tiny bit of all those things, even a crossword puzzle and weather report. Send your community news items to communitynotes@cambridgeday.com and we’ll try to publish those, too.

But Cambridge Day, obviously, is not in competition with anyone. Even calling it a “newspaper” is a bit of a stretch when comparing it with some of the real newspapers serving our community. A few small pages wrapped around a daily calendar, mainly staffed by volunteers with varying levels of experience but huge quantities of kindness and heart?

That’s not a newspaper; it’s really just another way to describe a community.

So don’t expect too much too soon. The promise of Cambridge Day is simply to do as well by its hometown as it can for as long as it can. (Still, all that being said, anyone with news tips can send them along to editor@cambridgeday.com and the contributors will do their best to track down the story. The same address can be used by anyone interested in volunteering their time, energy and expertise.)

What appears on these news pages may not follow all the tenets of traditional journalism. Cambridge Day will experiment, make mistakes, evolve. It will best serve its readers and itself, recognizing the dogmatists of traditional journalism have sometimes focused on minutiae at the expense of fundamentals and service – and the public is not roaring back its approval.

This is not to say Cambridge Day has journalistic breakthroughs to announce, only that it claims the right to look foolish.

By Marc Levy