Lightpad

Calendar for the visual thinkers

10 followers

Calendar for the visual thinkers

10 followers

Lightpad is a calendar that lets you use your excellent visual cortex for planning. Don't waste consciousness on stitching week rows in the table.

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The visual timeline idea is compelling because it treats planning as spatial thinking, not just data entry. That feels especially relevant when plans are fragile or far in the future and people need to understand the shape of the week/month quickly.

On Shareday we keep coming back to how families scan plans differently from teams. Did Lightpad users respond more to the visual layout itself, or to the calmer feeling of planning without dense calendar tables?

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1mo ago

I organize my side project todos with lightpad. I did not miss a deadline again. The UI is intuitive and the time organization is unique. I highly recommend lightpad.

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6yr ago

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@orolle hi Oliver! Whoa, thanks a lot for the praise! Do you miss any features?

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6yr ago

@spacegangster I think some team features would be nice. Some kind of tasks aggregation for tasks in the far future too.

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6yr ago

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@orolle got you! yeah, we want it too. How do you see tasks aggregation?

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6yr ago

@spacegangster tough question. maybe count the tasks and group by tags or summarize by tasks by text (google text summarization) for maybe weeks or months. But I am not sure whats better. it though question.

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6yr ago

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@orolle good idea! Yeah, thats worth a research.

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6yr ago

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Fellow dreamers, I'm so glad to see you here. How do you feel today? Personally, I'm both excited and scared. But after all, I like to feel good. And I like it when people around me feel good. I think that's the value of a good product – it makes you feel good. Sparks joy 😌 Similar to many of you, I enjoy planning and thinking about the future. But I never wanted to place any of that into common calendars, with their dry tables, my fragile plans didn't want to get in there. So, I decided to make my own calendar, with both lively and calm colors and a natural flowing timeline. Lightpad shows time closer to what we think it is – a continuous dimension. And it's natural for your visual cortex, so it can process time distance on its own and your consciousness can focus on the planning. And, to me, it feels right. I think it can be a good fit for dreamers and visual thinkers. This project has been a long road, yet I’m excited for the journey ahead. Lightpad will continue to be enhanced and updated – so stay tuned! Google Calendar integration is expected to arrive in July (or perhaps much faster) and additional extensions are soon to come. Cheers! --- Prospects –––– I would like Lightpad to be much more than a calendar. I sure would like to have collaboration features, tasks, robust structuring features with tree editing. Some of those already have backend ready and just wait for the UI. More extension points are shown in the Roadmap section on the landing page. Some are yet to be announced. Feedback welcome (even the most brutal !) –––– If anything isn't working, or unclear, or you see a potential improvement – leave a comment, I'll be happy to help, or accept feedback. Remember – there's no such thing as a dumb question. If anything is unclear – it's my fault, and you will only help by asking. Promo –––– Use code PRODUCTHUNT to get a 29% discount on next 6 months of service on any of the plans on the main pricing page. Use word "secret" in your comment to get a special secret code for an even better deal. On Table calendars –––– Many of you may be accustomed to table-type calendars and I respect that. But think about what – the time is a continuous dimension, right? Therefore, it can be presented spatially. And your visual cortex is extremely good at processing spatial information. Table, instead, requires some processing by consciousness, to stitch week rows into a continuum, thus leaves fewer resources to process the tasks at hand. Don't get me wrong: tables are great, I love them. But table calendars, they optimize for space, instead of optimizing for brain resources. They were made for the physical constraints of the time. Those constraints no longer apply. With the layer of virtuality, we can make a quasi-infinite time representation. That's why I think spatial calendars are a much less wrong approach for our time. They use more of the brain and allowing consciousness to focus on the tasks at hand. --- Credits: Video: Polina Lyubko instagram.com/jorgdavis Video track: KaiKaiWave soundcloud.com/rudtjr7281 App SFX: Slava Redov soundcloud.com/slavaredov Poll –––– Some of my friends perceive time as a spiral where each turn corresponds to a year, so if you're like my friends – you're not alone. So how do you perceive time? See options below

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6yr ago24 Answers

@spacegangster I find I perceive time on a log-scale, where the distance between today and tomorrow is very short, but the distance between 3 days from now and 4 days from now is very long. That would be very intuitive for me visually.

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6yr ago

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@xarlyle0 hmm, that's definitely interesting 🧐 Do you think it will scale for larger timespans?

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6yr ago

This seems pretty nice and I will definitely use it, cause hell this is so better than usual calendars or notes app. I was going through the introduction and there were some tasks created for today and I can’t figure out how to remove them. Can you please provide me with some instructions?

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6yr ago

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@daria_peters Hi Daria, thanks for the praise! Sure. Open a day, and click "expand all" button. Then you'll see "archive" button on every task. A bit confusing, I get it. I'll update the tutorial later or will try to make the UI a bit simpler. Don't hesitate to ask me again, if this isn't enough. I'm ready yo provide a personal onboarding if needed. You can always reach me on Twitter / Facebook / Insta.

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6yr ago

Very cool product. Suggestion: ability to add tag while typing tasks, using hashtag for example. And zoom in zoom out of flow. And keyboard shortcuts.

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6yr ago

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@trong_nguyen Hi Trong! Thanks! 🙏 Zoom and shortcuts are planned already, hash tag is a good suggestion, thank you for it!

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6yr ago

@spacegangster I have another observation, that Lighpad looks great on Safari, but the text is squeezed on Chrome (like the "Now" text and the date overlap each other sometimes).

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6yr ago

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@trong_nguyen thanks! what resolution and OS?

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6yr ago

@spacegangster Sorry, it is my bad. I was setting the font size to be large in Chrome. It looks normal when I set the font to be medium.

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6yr ago

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@trong_nguyen ah no worries! Ping if you'll find more stuff. Are you on Twitter? Also, just in case – there's a better promo code spelled "producthunt42"

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6yr ago

Im not sure if this product will work for me or not yet, but its easily the biggest innovation in calendar products ive ever seen - super excited to try it out! (secret)

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6yr ago

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@bs2889 thanks a LOT, Brian 😄😄 ! If you don't like anything or something will seem obscure – be sure to let me know. There's lots of polish to be done and lots of missing concepts and features! Ideally, I see Lightpad as something more than a beautiful calendar – I want teamwork and structure so that it could help communities.

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6yr ago

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@bs2889 sorry Brian, I've just noticed the "secret", my bad. Your promo code is producthunt42 ;) We'll update your subscription!

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6yr ago

visual marvel that is, definitely a gasp of fresh air after all those overcomplicated excel-like apps. some people need an inspiration, not an endless sheet 🤞 went off to clean my room

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6yr ago

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@evgeniy_shiryaev awesome! Glad you like it Evgeniy! Ping if you encounter any issues or will need any features! ❤️

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6yr ago

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