Momentum — The productivity coach in your pocket

Hey, Product Hunt! I’m jumping in here to say our team couldn’t be more excited about our Product Hunt launch today. We built Momentum out of a desire to help folks focus on what matters and set better boundaries. Life is moving at a pace that makes it difficult to keep up. External demands frequently outpace our internal sense of direction. 🧭 Nudges and visual cues in Momentum remind you to shoot your shot, move your priorities forward, and chunk projects down. It guides you to focus attention on what matters by turning big-picture goals into actionable tasks. And it helps you shift perspective so that you get the right amount of clarity of purpose or clarity of action that you need in the moment. 🎯 Hustle is no longer needed if you’re planning right. Your life and personal goals need to be on your schedule. Period. In building Momentum we were thinking: “Based on how humans are, how do we make it easier to make conscious choices to help us thrive?” Our answer was to bridge the gap between what we know we should do and what we actually do with our time. Underneath the hood of Momentum is a lot of application of the best insights and practices from behavioral economics, positive psychology, habit formation science, and productivity. We have plans to build machine learning into Momentum, too, so that it can better spot your patterns and usage so that you can plan, do, and be better — “better” based upon what that means to you, not us or anyone else. We’re offering folks who sign up via Product Hunt our standard 30-day free trial, plus a 20% discount on your monthly or annual subscription for the first year. Your monthly payment will be $8/mo rather than $10/ mo, for a total annual savings of $96 in the first year (versus $120). If you choose an annual subscription, that’s $80 for the first year, or $20 off the usual $100 annual rate. (After the first year at the discounted rate, your subscription will convert automatically to the standard $10/mo or $100/year.) 🤓 We’re excited to see your feedback — as well as any input or support to help us keep improving —- and seeing more people ready to make the life-changing decision to commit to their projects. Thanks for joining the nearly 1,000 customers we already have and helping us build Momentum together!

Aha... watched the video. Looks like its a "working backward" approach. Seems interesting. Congratulations on such a wonderful launch!

One of the amazing things about Momentum is that we’ve been able to build it with our community. From all the feedback we’ve used to refine the physical planners and the method over the years, to the Kickstarter in January, to the beta release and feedback this spring, our community has continually stepped up and offered feedback and suggestions, many of which we’ve already incorporated into the Momentum you see today. And there are still more features we can’t wait to build into Momentum (for our user community, of course, and selfishly, because we want them, too!). Here’s a taste of some of the features we’re considering for future releases: * Recurring events: this is our next big feature release; supporting recurring events and other actionables (like routine tasks) in the app. Enter it once, set the recurrence, and it appears every day or week or third Tuesday of the month. * Calendar sync: we’ve already implemented version 1 of calendar sync with Google Calendar. We plan to do the same with Outlook and iCal. * Planning workspace: a separate area (think mind map, but for Momentum Planning) for planning your best-work project, through all its time horizons, and either top down or bottom up. Once you have it exactly how you like it, one click populates it to your planner/dashboard pages. (And once there, our current drag-and-drop, defer, and archive features make it easy to update parts of the project when plans inevitably change.) * Integrated onboarding: a step-by-step walkthrough of how to create your first project and see how easy that is to do in Momentum. This is the first step toward building full machine learning into the app, where it can identify patterns in how you use the app and how you plan, and make suggestions that help you improve. The next level of “productivity coach in your pocket.” * Energy levels: We know that time is only one factor in creating your ideal schedule. We plan to add the ability to assign energy levels to events/tasks/project chunks, to help you indicate which of them require significant energy or attention, so you can plan those things when you have significant energy, and can plan recovery blocks around them when you need to. These are just a few of the more significant features we’re excited to build into Momentum. We’re also doing regular smaller releases to squash bugs and add other requested features, (like the upcoming “duplicate” function we’re releasing very soon). Your turn, Product Hunt! Please let us know: * Which of the features above are most important and/or exciting to you? * What are some other features on your “planner wish list” you’d like to see Momentum include? Your answers will help us continue to build the app that’s most useful to you.

I've had the opportunity to collaborate with this team over the past few months. Truly appreciate the amount of thoughtfulness and insight that have gone into this product. And I'm psyched that they've reached the point of sharing it with a broader audience. Nice work @angela_wheeler1 @charliegilkey and crew!

Cool approach with the different time views and the mobile-first approach! Will definitely test it out. 🚀

Ive been using Momentum since its beta, and Charlie's amazing products since the beginning (I am looking at my weekly planner sheet right now to get it ready for the week) this is an amazing product and I am so glad its finally launched and in other people's hands

Osheyana in Ops here, dropping in to give my 2 (or 3) cents. I feel like I need to say how incredibly important the Momentum Team has been to me over the last year that we’ve been working on this new journey into app-land. It’s wonderful, first of all, to be creating an app that’s dedicated to eliminating distractions and helping people follow the flow of their life. As someone who’s made 10,000 to-do lists in her life (in marker, on paper, of course), Momentum, and the methodology that’s baked in, has been a game-changer for me. I know what I need to do, I check it off, or I punt it to tomorrow’s list. I use a plethora of apps to help me maintain and keep track of the different projects and routines that are on deck, but a key to actually executing them is to connect the pieces in Momentum. No frills, no reminders inbox, no shiny things to distract me from why I’m there in the first place. The reminders app just won’t do it, and my Crayola-color-coded to-do lists would take 10x as long. It’s been a really nice transition. Also, “sparkly” is a theme option? Yes, please! I’ve leveled up because I know what’s on deck and I know what needs to get done. It feels good to be good at checking things off for once. Moreover, and to the point, this team is a force I’ve never encountered before. The care and compassion that this team shows to each other and to the community is both motivating and heartwarming. Awe-inspiring, even. I can’t wait to see what else we dream up for this endeavor, and how we can continue to help people like me find their best work and focus on the things that really matter. I truly appreciate all of the incredible support we’ve received on our launch today and I’m stoked to be a part of this beautiful crew of makers and doers. 😁👏🏼🎉

Congrats! Always enjoy following what you and your team build, Charlie. I like this in particular "focus on what matters and set better boundaries."

I’m a big fan of what Charlie and his team are doing with Momentum. Anything that can help us make more conscious choices that build momentum towards aligning our intentions with our attention is huge. Nicely done!

I'm having a lot of fun today getting to meet and get to know our new users. We are excited to hear from you about how Momentum is working for you. We truly want to see you get your best work out in the world and hope Momentum can support you in doing that. Let us know what projects you are working on, if you'd like to share.

I am so proud to be a Maker on the Momentum team because Momentum Planning has been a game changer for me over the last 4 years. Long before I was Team Momentum I was part of @charliegilkey and @angela_wheeler1 's Productive Flourishing community. They showed me that productivity isn’t simply a means of getting things done and checking items off a list but could be a path to a thriving life. Pre Momentum Planning I would have multiple to-do lists for the different aspects of my life that didn’t work because: * I’d have to continually rewrite my lists (beating myself up for all the things I didn’t get done) * The list would hold tasks that would take me 15 minutes and some that were month-sized. There was no rhyme or reason. (likely the reason why things didn’t get to “done”) * My lists focused more on the “shoulds” and “have tos” of work and life and little on the projects that I’d consider best work Momentum addresses all these issues (and then some). When I’m entering projects in Momentum I now think about the amount of time it will take me to realistically get something done (and that realistically can be a moving target some days). Instead of everything being on an endless and indecipherable list, it’s now organized by time horizon. And that shift between time horizons helps me get clarity on what needs to get done, why it needs to get done, and when it needs to get done (i.e. not everything needs to get done right now!). And because everything is saved in the app, there’s no need to rewrite things over and over. If something needs to shift (because reality never seems to line up exactly as we plan) I can easily move things around in the app. There’s less beating myself up and more celebrating the wins. Because at Momentum we are all about celebrating the wins, big and small! Momentum’s true magic is it’s centered around you. Think less about what is the correct way to use it and more about what best work projects you’ll move forward.

Definitely my favorite new app of the year, and the first productivity app to get me excited in a while. Really excited about the future of this app, this team, and the community that will doubtless gather around it all.

Love Momentum -- been using it since the beta. It keeps me on track with what I already promised myself I would be doing, instead of the thing my brain thinks I *should* be doing right in the moment. It helps me plan out quarterly projects and then break those down into monthly projects and in turn break those down into things I'm going to get done during the week, which is my planning comfort zone.

Wow…Momentum is an amazing App that not only organizes your life, but also has a”How” factor that encourages you to stay on task. It also simplifies life in a way where tasks, projects, events, etc. are complete efficiently in a timely manner. Congratulations to you @charliegilkey and your team for a planner app I could actually use. However, at this time I am best able to write in a calendar; so, I wonder if your planner is in a book/calendar form. If not, how can I effectively use your work sheets? Thank you!! And best wishes!!

Congrats on the Product Hunt launch! I'm a huge fan of Charlie, Angela and the Productive Flourishing team. This new Momentum product is a fabulous way to leverage and expand upon the great successes they have had with the paper version. I'd advise anyone looking for that extra something to sort out the chaos of daily life and get from fuzzy goals to actionable reality to check out this app!

Congrats on an amazing launch! This feels like such a great extension of Productive Flourishing's approach that will help a lot of people, well, flourish!

I was blessed to be a part of this app's beta launch, and it's a game-changer for my productivity. I've used Asana, docs, physical planners, the usual, but Momentum is built in a way that provides as much clarity (in time, task, and priority) as it does scheduling. I'm a fan of Charlie's book and company, and Momentum is great at distilling his systems and teaching into a fast, effective app that makes sense. No other planner, digital or physical, makes it so fast and easy to set goals and break them down into realistic timelines and actionable next steps. A great philosophy of usefulness, common sense, super smart features, and HEALTHY BOUNDARIES so you can actually focus and get the right work done. Highly recommended.

I have been a fan and implementor of Productive Flourishing's methods for planning and prioritizing for over a decade. I am SO excited about this app that will make integrating the methodology into practice much more seamless.

I really like this system and product. I've been using the paper version for years, now I'm using the app and the experience and results are even easier. Charlie and his team are great to work with mostly because 'they give a damn' and care. Great system, great team, great app.

I'm really excited to see Momentum here finally! Congratulations on the PH launch!