Morning -Akane's Room, sit on the bench outside your home at afternoon and complete the date, this event is not indicated anywhere so I understand the confusion.
Been so long since I started the game, I kinda forgot this was the start of it heh.
Not really a way to know without the dev's own admittance, but reporting the links while disruptive it is not something anyone can do anything about.
Hover over the card (or click maybe on Android? I'm not sure), and it'll tell you what you need to do.
Affection rarely needs to be grinded here most of the time you earn enough points just following the events, though I don't remember every detail...
Hence the past tense. Before the first major blocking quest (I think it's 'Good News'), you need to unlock cards. Some of those cards required you to visit a handful of times without unique events. I'm fairly sure this applies to everyone in the village/town, and you might even have to do the H-scene hang out with Aoi. But it's the first experience we have in the game, and I don't think that was changed in the latest update. (Though the introduction re-flow is huge, and fixes a bunch of minor issues.)
There will ultimately be 4 quests.
