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newDay Planner ā We redesigned time itself to help you build a better day.
newDay reimagines time as you know it, providing a unique way to plan, live, and remember your 1000 minute days in 100-minute-long hours.
Styled with local weather and astronomical data.
Builds an ongoing record of your days.
Navigate with vim-like hotkeys.
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Anna Filou
That's FANTASTIC but you only reserved 7 h 20 min for sleep? š± I sleep 8.5 to 9 h a day š
Oh, juts noticed it's in the FAQ:
> What if I sleep more than 7 hours and 20 minutes each night?
ā That's fine. Please consider using hours 0 and 9 as a buffer. Wake up during 0 and fall asleep during 9.
I love how you use your furniture to work out by the way š
Breaking a day down into smaller parts makes sense, considering the way we live and work now. 60 min is usually too little to get meaningful things done and the way we keep track of time is generally confusing (60 min, 24 h, 28ā31 days, 12 months, 364 1/2 days.... Um, where's the consistency?? š)
Yours seems like a great solution and I'm looking forward to using it!
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@anna_0x Thanks for this and thanks for the awesome designs that you sent. I've shown to a lot of friends and the love it, they want me to make a style that looks like that
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)
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.
I really like this new concept of breaking down the day into 10 chunks, and setting the intentions for each! Very clean interface and weather is a great touch. Some suggestions from my end:
- Ability to create Templates which would be really cool, as some tasks are recurring
- Ability to add reminders on certain times
- More keyboard shortcuts, such as toggling between days or 'the number chunks' (for example, pressing "CMD + 2" / "CMD + 7" will bring me to the 2nd or 7th time slot respectively)
- (Also suggested by other users) create a checkbox feature which will allow checking off completed tasks, and integration with apple calendar perhaps?
- More display font options
I am excited to use this promising app further, to help me fight off procrastination during this period!
@lee_yi_wei Hey! I am just getting to your comment now sorry for the delay. Great ideas and feedback, this is really helpful and appreciated. There's a secret hotkey for day toggling: "control + comma" and "control + period" I also just integrated google calendar, haven't done Apple yet.
It's insane how little time we spend building tech to improve the way we interact with time. Can't wait to try it! +1 on the gcal integration.
I really like the creativity and boldness to re-think how we track time. I'll be trying this out during the lockdown. Congrats on the launch @the_esc !
This is so intriguing and unique -- love the snark of "I ain't signing up" on the homepage š¤£ Deeply creative & thought-provoking, Evan!
@shriyanevatia haha thanks for recognizing my little i ain't signin link. In fact the entire site can run just off of cookies so I wanted to give people who really don't want to create an account a path forward, given it might be a little rocky.
My OCD is loving the round numbers (100 minutes, 10 newHours) š¤ Thanks for helping me make the best out of quarantine :)
@cathy_chen no Cathy, thank you! for being the most motivating Early user in the history of half baked products.
This is really cool. I've been moving around the past few weeks with no meetings and more intuitive schedule, this feels like a shift that could help focus. Giving it a shot.
Literally 10 minutes ago I was telling myself I need to start using my calendar much more aggressively to survive this lockdown and split up the day into more usable segments. Super excited to start using this and even the first 5 minutes have been worth the setup
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
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
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.
@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!
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 :)
Maybe add a "backlog" for intentions and tasks, like a sidebar where I "brain dump" everything and I can draw back later on
@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.
@catmean I'd never heard of time blindness. Your comment made me look it up ^-^ Interesting. I wasn't aware such a thing was an issue for some people. I tend to get carried away and lose track of time, but that only happens when I'm really into something. I'm guessing it must always feel kinda like that for people with time blindness. š¤
This is awesome Evan! There's something very interesting about the concept of dividing the day into blocks. The light feature is pretty awesome! Can't wait to see how this evolves
There isn't a way to leave feedback in product, but it seems the font is turning 'fi' into a dot on my OSX chrome browser.
@david_furlong Thanks for the feedback. When you say fi do you mean the three dot thing or something else?
I've been using this for the past couple weeks and really love it! One thing I wish it had was notifications for when the time block is ending so that I can switch context better
@nivlife I am working on that now! I want to add sounds each time the block ends, and other types of notifications might also be possible.
This is awesome! I've been looking for ways to restructure my day and be more intentional about how I spend my time. My normal calendar often feels like a tool for other people to use, but newDay creates a space just for me that actually mirrors how I work!
Would love to see a lock screen and smart watch integrations next so I can more deeply integrate the blocks into my day-to-day activities.
Keep up the great work!
This is such an interesting take on the oldest technology, time! Really excited to try it out and see how my behavior changes