QTR is an all-in-one planner inspired by Amazon's "Working Backwards" approach—start with the big picture, work backward to plan your weeks, then time-block your daily tasks. Every action stays aligned with your quarterly goals.
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📌👋 Hey everyone, Swami here — one of QTR’s founders.
What inspired us was a principle that high-performing teams at Amazon use to plan their projects: “Working Backwards.” Start with the outcome, then map out the steps to get there.
We thought: why can’t individuals use this too? So we built QTR, a personal quarterly planner that helps you manage time, not just tasks.
The QTR System
Q – Quick Capture
Get tasks and ideas out of your head fast into broad time frames — no need to stress out about exact dates.
T – Time Framing
Our cascading-view planning process takes you from the big picture down to the day, so everything you do today stays aligned with your bigger goals:
1. Map yearly goals across four quarters
2. Plan quarterly items on a 13-week board
3. Spread weekly priorities across your days
4. Move daily tasks to your calendar
R – Review
Start and end your day with quick check-ins. Review what’s done, what’s pending, and adjust your plan to stay on track.
A final note: QTR is an all-in-one planner that brings together your goals, projects, tasks, calendar, notes, bookmarks, and journal into one seamless system. And because QTR is built around time frames, your notes and journals are also tied to year, quarter, week, and day contexts. It’s like having separate journals for your daily, weekly, and quarterly reflections.
Excited to finally share this with the Product Hunt community. Would love your thoughts 🙏
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I've started using QTR in its current form (had played around with it previously). I think the UI/UX is simple and intuitive. The way QTR maps your goals and tasks hierarchically from a year --> quarter --> week etc...is a great way to think about longer term goals. So I can start with a goal this quarter or year and work my way back to the tasks and sub-goals that will help me get there. It makes a lot of sense! One thing I wish the product had is an AI tool that takes my goal and plans out the tasks and helps me slot them in based on effort or auto-suggest timeframes based on inferred complexity. The QTR team said this is something coming in the next release. So can't wait to try it out! Great job on a putting out an easy to use and effective product out of the gates. Looking forward to all the future updates...
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Hey everyone,
I’m Rishi, co-founder and backend engineer at QTR.
I’ve been focused on building the foundation that keeps QTR fast, stable, and reliable as you plan and track your goals. It’s been amazing seeing how people use it in different ways, from journaling to detailed goal tracking.
We have a lot of exciting updates coming soon, including an AI sidebar that takes your planning experience to the next level with the support of LLMs that understands your goals and plans. All your planning and journaling data is fully encrypted, so your information stays private and secure.
I’m looking forward to sharing more and hearing what you think.
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@rushikesh_sargar Rishi is our other rockstar! I cannot imagine building QTR without this guy.
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Hi everyone 👋
I’m Prabha, frontend engineer at QTR.
I put in a LOT of effort into making QTR feel intuitive. Clean and minimal is our philosophy, and almost everyone who tried our beta told us the UX looks simple and beautiful. We want the tool to get out of your way, so you can focus on the actual work.
Would love your thoughts and feedback on how we can make it even better! 🙏
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@prabhakaran_rajendran1 In my 20+ years, I haven't worked with anyone of Prabha's caliber. It's why our UX rocks. I'm so proud to work with him. He's also an amazing wildlife photographer, check out his Instagram!
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Love how intuitive this feels and where y'all are heading in terms of thoughtfulness around planning. Excited to see where this goes, cheers!
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Hi, I’m Jag, co-founder and DevOps engineer at QTR.
Since day one my focus has been getting QTR into people’s hands quickly and smoothly, from API integrations to cloud deployments. We’ve built around principles like shift-left, platform engineering, and DevOps automation, using Azure StartupHub credits to move fast, learn faster, and keep improving from user feedback.
Would love to hear your thoughts as we keep rolling out new features.
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@jag_m_shetty Jag and I go back a long way. We’ve worked on more than 4 projects and more importantly, won awards together, including at TechCrunch Disrupt. I still remember walking in our neighborhood park with Jag and discussing the idea of QTR with him…this was about 2 years ago. Can’t believe that dream is real now.
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I've been using QTR to help accomplish my daily work goals, and I have to say—it really makes a difference. By the end of my workday, I always feel like I've truly achieved something. It keeps me focused, on track, and gives me a clear picture of what I’ve done. Since I started using it, my productivity has noticeably increased. It’s a simple but powerful tool that helps me stay organized and motivated every day.
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@madhura_shetty1 Thank you, Madhura. Your input has been very valuable to us over the last few months.
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Thanks Rakesh! QTR is definitely better because of all the valuable suggestions you've given us.