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newDay Planner — We redesigned time itself to help you build a better day.
newDay reimagines time as you know it, providing a unique way to plan, live, and remember your 1000 minute days in 100-minute-long hours.
Styled with local weather and astronomical data.
Builds an ongoing record of your days.
Navigate with vim-like hotkeys.
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@davefontenot Hey Dave, thank you so much for your support. It is truly and deeply appreciated. We do plan on integrating with gCal - the reason we haven't yet is because it takes a long time to get Google to approve that calendar integration permission, but we absolutely see that as future necessary functionality.
I really like the creativity and boldness to re-think how we track time. I'll be trying this out during the lockdown. Congrats on the launch @the_esc !
So cool! I love how it makes you think about time in a different way. over time I wonder if you can do something similar to weekly/monthly/annual calendars...reminds me of The Wait But Why article where it puts into perspective how little time you have with your parents once you move out! (Writes this from my parents house, not how I thought my life would turn out)
as an engineer i've found the 100 minute hours to be a much better way of structuring my time, since they match the pattern of deep work much more clearly
This is so intriguing and unique -- love the snark of "I ain't signing up" on the homepage 🤣 Deeply creative & thought-provoking, Evan!
@shriyanevatia haha thanks for recognizing my little i ain't signin link. In fact the entire site can run just off of cookies so I wanted to give people who really don't want to create an account a path forward, given it might be a little rocky.
This is awesome Evan! There's something very interesting about the concept of dividing the day into blocks. The light feature is pretty awesome! Can't wait to see how this evolves
This is awesome! I've been looking for ways to restructure my day and be more intentional about how I spend my time. My normal calendar often feels like a tool for other people to use, but newDay creates a space just for me that actually mirrors how I work!
Would love to see a lock screen and smart watch integrations next so I can more deeply integrate the blocks into my day-to-day activities.
Keep up the great work!
Literally 10 minutes ago I was telling myself I need to start using my calendar much more aggressively to survive this lockdown and split up the day into more usable segments. Super excited to start using this and even the first 5 minutes have been worth the setup
As someone who is completely frustrated by the lack of adoption of the metric system here in 'Murica, I am super excited to give this re-imagining of time a go. I love the thinking behind it. Excellent job, Evan!
Scott Flansberg has been looking at time too. Have you seen his work? Here is a quote on his calendar: "The Human Calculator Calendar has 365 days divided into 13 months of 28 days each and the first day of the year is the Zero Day. The 13 months are numbered 0-12. Every month has 4 weeks. Every date falls on the same day of the week every month." http://www.scottflansburg.com/store
@davidsilvasmith I hadn't heard of that but sounds like it works on similar principles. 13 months very cleanly fits into 365 (364 is divisible by 13) and each would be 4 weeks exactly so yes, that seems like a better system to me haha.
@the_esc Yeah! I'd love to see us move to these types of systems. I'm trying out newDay today, thanks for making it!
It's insane how little time we spend building tech to improve the way we interact with time. Can't wait to try it! +1 on the gcal integration.
This is such an interesting take on the oldest technology, time! Really excited to try it out and see how my behavior changes
Hey Everyone,
Evan here, creator of the newDay Planner. It started with an experiment of organizing the minutes of my day differently, and ended up with stumbling on a suprisingly sensible alternative to the 24-hour day.
From there, I created a tool that I could use to help me plan and visualize the entire plan for my day in a way that wasn't as easy to do in 24 hour time. Having just 10 newHours to think about really is nice.
Most recently I added the weather integration so that your day is illuminated with local weather data. It can be very helpful to know when you are planning your schedule if it will be sunny out!
The newDay Planner has been critical for me in organizing my time while I am in quarantine. I sincerely hope that it will help you, too.
Intentionally,
Evan
I've had access to newDay for several weeks. It feels like a perfect quarantine project as I've got fewer anchors to the outside world. 100 minutes feels like a great size for productive work chunks (YMMV) and it feels more important than ever to set intentions for time, to avoid falling into mindless internet browsing for the whole day.
@matthew_bunday Thank you so much for the comment and all your support along the way. It also helps me to stay out of the mindless territory, which is... exactly where I don't want to go. hah.
That sounds and looks cool, I'll give it a try. One piece of feedback right off the bat: consider not using cmd + arrow to move from hour to hour, when writing a note, and it's already a useful shortcut to move from to the beginning or end of a line.
@robin_boutros Great point!! I noticed this recently and it is on my bug list. It is fine when you are going forward that there is this conflict but totally annoying if you go backwards
@robin_boutros I just updated the hotkeys so that they aren't overloaded in the way you mentioned and I added some new ones, like control + i to open and close the intention modal, control +, / control+. to scan days
This is neat, have been breaking my awake time into quarters. Excited to try this out.
@devankoshal Cool yes I think that quarters can also be a good system! I often feel like my day breaks down into 3rds or 4ths
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