Compass Calendar - The keyboard-first calendar to get organized quickly
Compass is a simple, keyboard-first calendar that helps you manage your time. It's built around vim-style shortcuts that make scheduling feel like a fun game of Tetris. If you live at the keyboard and in your calendar, Compass will make your life easier.
Although Compass is built around speed, sometimes the most productive thing to do is nothing. That's why we also have a "life" view, which shows your life as a grid of dots. This visual will help you filter out non-essentials.
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Hey PH, I started working on Compass Calendar in 2021 after quitting my job and squandering my time on silly things. I wanted an app that'd give me some needed structure. But my first iteration had too much bloat: notes, tasks, tags, events. It was trying to be an "everything app" like Notion, but it wasn't doing any job well.
I needed to simplify, so I decided to focus on two goals:
1) speed
2) judgement
A calendar with speedy UX puts you back in control, because adjusting things as life changes is no longer daunting. That's where the keyboard-first approach comes from.
Deciding what to work on in the first place is the judgement part. That's why I added the "life" view, which shows your life as a grid of weeks. Seeing your whole existence on one screen really puts things into perspective. It's still you who decides what to do with your time (no AI here), Compass just gives you a unique way to visualize it.
It took longer than expected, but I'm finally proud of it, especially its simplicity.
Excited to hear what y'all think.