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Show HN: Essential – A weekly planner for work, personal and social life

40 points| fishsander | 7 years ago |essentialcal.com | reply

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[+] fishsander|7 years ago|reply
Hey HN,

Creators here. We've been using this planning method for a while and decided to turn it into a product to see if it's helpful for others. I struggle with focus a lot, while Joris (other creator) struggled to prioritise the right things. We both use this method by planning our week ahead on Sunday or Monday, where we set 3 priorities per part of the day (morning, afternoon, evening). Often we keep a few "dayparts" open as a buffer if something comes up.

We built the planner using Meteor, React, Styled Components, Reach UI, react-beautiful-dnd and react-tiny-virtual-list.

I explained a bit more about how we turned this method into an app on Medium: https://medium.com/swlh/finding-clarity-and-focus-as-a-maker...

While we feel like the product is pretty much finished (we've been using it for months already), the hardest part is to explain the method to people. So we're specifically interested in feedback on that part.

[+] qnsi|7 years ago|reply
Hey, I got Application error and heroku screen when trying to access your site
[+] choochootrain|7 years ago|reply
i love that i can try this out anonymously - how do i set priorities for the 3 parts of the day? right now i can only set the morning priority by clicking on the day