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
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)
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@eriktorenberg Kodak used to run on a 13 month calendar.
This completely changed the way I move through time. Helped me shift from manager time to maker time during quarantine, something I had been struggling with immensely at first.
The one thing that I'm finding difficult about adapting to newDay is maintaining two calendars. Do you have any plans to integrate with gcal?
@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.
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
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.
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@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!
@cathy_chen no Cathy, thank you! for being the most motivating Early user in the history of half baked products.
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Hey, I love the concept. Here's what I suggest improving or adding: (1) Favicon for adding the PWA to the home screen, (2) the "set intention" is nice, but how about adding tasks or to-dos to it, i.e. by choosing every evening the most important priorities for tomorrow (https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_p...). (3) If you have the location and therefore sunrise/set data, you could add circadian rhythm events to it (let's say the best time to wake up, the best time to have breakfast/lunch/dinner, the best time for sports, the best time to start evening routine) (4) maybe even the option to use the same layout but with our current standard time (some people have meetings and cannot "switch" to 100 minute hours without getting some kind of confused. Good Job, I'll set it as my standard new tab page and see how it will work out :)
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And how about adding in the top bar a year/month/week progress percentage % (20% of the year passed)
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And obviously please encrypt the data so nobody except me can read the intentions etc.
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Maybe add a "backlog" for intentions and tasks, like a sidebar where I "brain dump" everything and I can draw back later on
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@marius_schober Tip: You can edit an existing comment instead of replying to it repeatedly ;) At first I thought this was a conversation between multiple people. Took me a few secs to realize it's all one person.
@marius_schober Hey! I am just seeing your remarks, thanks so much for your attention and thoughts on the product. I'm definitely looking to add in various overlays for things like the circadian data and 110% the choosing important priorities for tomorrow is a part of the practice that I do, I want to build into the tool. As for integrating with meetings and 24 hour time - I just finished building out of a google calendar integration which helps with that a lot.
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