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!

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.

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 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.

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.

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!

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.

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 really like this tool for how it links longer term goals to daily to dos. I have used the paper versions of the Momentum Planner for years and have been very excited to work with the app for the last few months.

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!