A next-generation personal time management tool focusing on hyper-customization, insights and reflection, and ai assistance.
timing.isMaker
📌Hello everyone,
Excited to launch our product with you all today 🚀
tl;dr
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timing is a personal productivity app that brings together your calendar, to-do list, and reminders in a beautiful mobile-first experience. It can be optimized to match your unique needs based on how you choose to navigate life!
Most calendars are basic appointment-keeping tools but ironically they’re not great for planning our time. So we turned to Personal Knowledge Management software to help us manage the daily grind. But as much as we enjoyed the flexibility (at first), maintenance became difficult and we noticed a crucial element missing – time! So — we decided to build a modern-day planner that embraces the flexibility of PKMs while keeping things straightforward like a calendar. Everyone’s relationship with time varies, but one thing is clear, the when matters. This is why we’ve built a product founded on one notion: “timing is everything”.
Our core beliefs:
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💪 Plans should be flexible (something about time being fluid) – we wanted to build something that made the input side as frictionless and efficient as possible. So we made every field optional except the title. You can add a date to create a reminder, add a time to make it an event, add a person to make it a meeting, etc (and in reverse order too!). If you don't know "when exactly", schedule it loosely as an "anytime" task for a given day or week, or just leave it as is... "unscheduled". The important thing is that it's captured and you can reference it contextually when you need it.
👨🎤 Everyone's life is unique – color-coding wasn't cutting it for us so we added support for optional fields like hashtags and emojis to bring out a bit more... ahem, color :) Later we decided to build out the library by adding support for less common fields like energy-level, time estimate, priority... to more advanced options like Eisenhower Matrix and LNO-framework. These fields are great for filtering purposes and getting insights into how you spend time, giving you a unique perspective on your future (or past) events. Decide which of these work for you and turn everything else off.
🧘♂️ Inspiration built right in – it's about time our calendars stepped up and did a little more to keep us engaged. If all we ever capture in them are things we "have to do" or worse, what other people need us to do, then it's no wonder we don't like our calendars. The modern calendar should help us discover what's happening around us and recommend things to plan. At the same time, it should help us discover what's happening within us and help us prioritize our mental and emotional well-being. The equation is simple, we are the sum of how we spend our time.
A bit about us and why we built this
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We're childhood friends that now have our own (small) children. We discovered the web together back in the 90s and decided to team up once more after 20 years, and across an 8-hr time difference, to work on something we believed should exist in the world.
We spoke to so many people on this journey of discovery and we were amazed at the diversity in how people manage (or mismanage) their time. It's a constant struggle and there is no perfect system, but our tools can certainly go further in helping us be more intentional about how we plan our time. The early feedback we've received has been highly encouraging and we thank all our early users for helping us shape the product.
What we hope we can do with this community
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If any of what we said above resonates with you, we'd love your input. We are still very early on in our journey and have a lot of things we still want to build. Either leave us a comment below or find us on twitter, discord, or email. We'd love to chat with each of you... timing.is/open if you want to schedule something in the future, or visit timing.is/now to hop on a zoom with us (we'll try to be as available throughout the day as possible based on engagement).
Cheers...
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VideodeckHuge congrats on the launch! 👏 My team and I always have so many things to focus on when making videos for our clients, we could really use something like timing.is to help us keep track of everything we have to do. Is it possible to track and analyze time spent on different activities or projects?
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timing.isMaker
@heleana and an even bigger thank you for the positive feelings Heleana!
Combining custom fields with filters, you sure can. You’ll need to annotate different activities with tags, emoji and/or project, and also have an estimate set for each entry (this can be corrected retrospectively too). And then through the filters, you should be able to get a fresh perspective on what’s coming up that’s relevant. You’ll toggle insights on how much time exactly is being spent on whatever you’re focusing on, as well as glanceable widgets (on the week view) of what your week _feels_ like.
All that said, we’re only scratching the surface in the current version. We hope to add more custom fields (including giving you the ability to create your own), and hope to surface these insights more prominently throughout the UX.
Would be a win-win possibly if we can get on a call to discuss your needs specifically. We want to build the most mindful calendar app for you, with you. Gathering intel will empower us to build something uniquely personal. https://timing.is/open always :)
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timing.isMaker
@heleana also just to say, happy to personally onboard you (and everyone on here) on the experience so you can maximise your effectiveness as well as efficiency with the app from day 0. Over time, we hope to publish docs and media to help with this but we are still at the stage when it makes sense to do things that can’t scale (:
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timing.isMaker
@heleana Thanks so much for the feedback. Yes, you can certainly do that! The first step would be to annotate your activities or projects using any of the custom fields like #hashtags or projects and so on. Then you have a choice of either using the Filters to look at your upcoming (or recent history) to get a perspective on how many instances of each exist (and how much time they take up) - OR - you can go to the Week view to see it automatically summarized based on those same annotations. The data layer and the views are fully abstracted, so presumably we can create any type of output. Happy to chat more if your team has specific requirements: timing.is/open.
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CoatailsI really like the idea of how different events can have a lot of attributes like energy required. If you are looking for feedback, I would say the UI is very busy(no pun intended) and could be cleaned up. Lots of potential here!
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timing.isMaker
@evanwherchek hi Evan – appreciate your feedback, we've gone through a ton of iterations trying to simplify (and arguably made a lot of progress). Would love to hear your thoughts on where else you think we can optimize. timing.is/open in case you're open to a chat.
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timing.isMaker
@evanwherchek @faridh yep, it would be fantastic if we can learn more around the specifics of what about the UI you find to be too much. Over time, we intend to give users more control on both the appearance and visibility of items, but we know defaults matter most. And through hopefully deeper engagement with helpful users like yourself, we are more likely to set sensible ones :)
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Coatails@faridh @mtrostyle It may just be because I haven't used the app and can't because I don't use an iPhone but I would say, there's a lot of UI elements in the screenshots I have seen. The aesthetics of the app are also pretty unique to anything I've ever seen so that might be throwing me off as well.
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timing.isMaker
@faridh @evanwherchek thanks for the clarification. I can see where you’re coming from, but judging from screenshots vs actual use _might_ lead to a different opinion. We’re constantly re-evaluating what should always be visible/easily accessible vs not. Some prefer more dense UIs and others not (me for example). As Farid mentioned, we’ve streamlined quite a lot on the back of feedback (re-did our entire navigation) and will continue to where it makes sense. And over time, we’ll introduce more settings to give users more direct input on presentation.
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I was looking for a personal calendar for my apple environment that combines reminders and calendar apps as well. I have downloaded almost all of them and tried and paid for some of them. Fantastical and reedle calendars fit my needs more then others. I was subscribed both of them and was using fantastical as my verdict leaded. Fantastical is a very powerful and well designed for ios and mac but didnt stopped me finding alternatives. By chance I have downloaded timing.is app and really loved the innovative design and simplicity without loosing the power. I recommend this app thumbs up.
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timing.isMaker
@nezih_durmazlar thank you for your support. We hear you on the "not stopping you from finding alternatives" point. We had a similar feeling, our tools were adequate, but either too rigid or too fluid. Hopefully, timing strikes a good balance between the two worlds.
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TinkerfontCongrats on the launch here!
Going through your website and checking the Notion docs rn.
Can't wait to give it a whirl later today.
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timing.isMaker
@verfasor thank you for checking in and the interest <3
Will be great to learn what your first impressions are once you have taken it for a spin :)
(The Notion docs are due a refresh to account for some of the more recent changes made to the app’s navigation based on ongoing user feedback. It should still give you an accurate idea of what we’re building and how it works though.)
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TomeI've used it from early alpha days! The UI shows a lot of attention to detail. The animations are slick and make the app look effortless! Congrats on the launch.
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timing.isMaker
@zaki_shaheen awesome to have had you on the ride from the go. It’s been at times bumpy, but we feel we’ve come out better as a result! Thank you for your kind words. We got a lot of cool things planned, so please stay on board :)
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Narrated Tours (On Demand Audio Guides)Many congratulations Farid!
With 2 small children I can relate to the need of a mobile-first productivity tool & plans being fluid and flexible.
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timing.isMaker
@byhazellim thanks so much!
Hazel, we’re both parents of 2 small children too, so we know exactly what you mean. It’s actually one of the main reasons why we gravitated towards building a calendar. Parents wear the most hats, and we wanted a calendar that makes hat-switching as seamless as possible :)
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