Related free tool (mine) : https://crushentropy.com/ It's like markdown for planning your day.
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Show HN: A better way to timeblock your day
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Re: Show HN: A better way to timeblock your day
#52I've seen a lot of these kinds of tools come and go, and this one looks as good if not better than most of the others. However, they're all missing out on a huge market: people in delegate or what's normally known as "Executive Assistant" roles, who are managing someone else's calendar and need a way to control what calendar items, invitations, responses, etc. their executives are seeing.
I have yet to see any tool that serves that market at all. If there was a tool that could help people in those kinds of roles, particularly if there was functionality to 'automatically' setup meetings a la Doodle (which is garbage), it would sell like hotcakes.
Re: Show HN: A better way to timeblock your day
#53I've seen a lot of these kinds of tools come and go, and this one looks as good if not better than most of the others. However, they're all missing out on a huge market: people in delegate or what's normally known as "Executive Assistant" roles, who are managing someone else's calendar and need a way to control what calendar items, invitations, responses, etc. their executives are seeing. I have yet to see any tool t…
As someone with ADHD who was never taught how to handle time.. I think something like this would be very valuable.
I don't need _better_ ways to timeblock my day, I need _any_ way to timeblock my days that actually works...
Re: Show HN: A better way to timeblock your day
#54I've seen a lot of these kinds of tools come and go, and this one looks as good if not better than most of the others. However, they're all missing out on a huge market: people in delegate or what's normally known as "Executive Assistant" roles, who are managing someone else's calendar and need a way to control what calendar items, invitations, responses, etc. their executives are seeing. I have yet to see any tool t…
As someone with ADHD who was never taught how to handle time.. I think something like this would be very valuable. I don't need _better_ ways to timeblock my day, I need _any_ way to timeblock my days that actually works...
Hm, just today I did something I don't normally do, which is timeblock my day! As in not just the meetings I have, but wrote down my plan for all the time in between.
Now, I haven't gotten to all of them and some things slipped. I have the luxury of that not being a huge issue. Still, it felt good knowing that whenever I thought to myself "I should be doing something" I already had one and only one thing on deck at a given time, literally.
Re: Show HN: A better way to timeblock your day
#55I remember trying out Getting Things Done, really liking the idea, and then finding out I had only crappy ways to reference an email from my "todo list". Enough of my "work" is "respond to this email" that I've never been able to escape my inbox as one of my todo lists. Any ideas on how to build task planning that lets me include link directly to an email?
I guess that my setup is extremely tailored to my needs but it requires very little setup so here it goes.
I use Emacs Org-Mode for my todo lists and the default macOS Mail.app for email. On a Mac, Org-Mode has a tool that grabs the currently selected email and inserts a link to the message id into the Org buffer. Clicking on that link opens the message in Mail.app.
I try to clean out my email inbox every evening. I track emails that need additional work in Org-Mode and immediately move them to the email archive after I created the link.
Re: Show HN: A better way to timeblock your day
#56I've seen a lot of these kinds of tools come and go, and this one looks as good if not better than most of the others. However, they're all missing out on a huge market: people in delegate or what's normally known as "Executive Assistant" roles, who are managing someone else's calendar and need a way to control what calendar items, invitations, responses, etc. their executives are seeing. I have yet to see any tool t…
they're all missing out on a huge market
That doesn't sound like a huge market. Very few people have an assistant these days. That sounds like a few tens of thousands of potential customers, although admittedly ones able to afford a high premium.
Re: Show HN: A better way to timeblock your day
#57I've seen a lot of these kinds of tools come and go, and this one looks as good if not better than most of the others. However, they're all missing out on a huge market: people in delegate or what's normally known as "Executive Assistant" roles, who are managing someone else's calendar and need a way to control what calendar items, invitations, responses, etc. their executives are seeing. I have yet to see any tool t…
That's an interesting space. Our current users tend to be working at earlier stage startups so we don't hear a lot about EAs but certainly for enterprise clients I could see how this would be a killer feature.
Re: Show HN: A better way to timeblock your day
#58Looks like it could be helpful but after spending over two minutes looking for pricing and not finding it I'll never know. I refuse to even try a product that won't be upfront about pricing. Don't 1) tell me I can get two months free, 2) offer to let me take a test drive or 3) ask for my email address before you've given me a chance to review your standard price model. I'm sure in the long run I am missing out on som…
Big Amen from me, I was just about to write the same thing.
No pricing page means it’s possible I’ll end up needing to talk to a sales rep or they’ll end up wanting a subscription for any meaningful features.
Re: Show HN: A better way to timeblock your day
#59I remember trying out Getting Things Done, really liking the idea, and then finding out I had only crappy ways to reference an email from my "todo list". Enough of my "work" is "respond to this email" that I've never been able to escape my inbox as one of my todo lists. Any ideas on how to build task planning that lets me include link directly to an email?
Maybe search for Tiago Forte's "PARA" system and "one-touch inbox"; his workflows might not be precisely what you described ("task planning that lets me include link directly to an email") but I bet you'd find inspiration to facilitate your "escape". Good luck!
Re: Show HN: A better way to timeblock your day
#60I've seen a lot of these kinds of tools come and go, and this one looks as good if not better than most of the others. However, they're all missing out on a huge market: people in delegate or what's normally known as "Executive Assistant" roles, who are managing someone else's calendar and need a way to control what calendar items, invitations, responses, etc. their executives are seeing. I have yet to see any tool t…
As someone with ADHD who was never taught how to handle time.. I think something like this would be very valuable. I don't need _better_ ways to timeblock my day, I need _any_ way to timeblock my days that actually works...
What do you mean by “works”? You could do it with pencil and a piece of paper.