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🧭 Get Started Faster | February Update

Published 8 months ago • 1 min read

You can now go from being interested in Compass to using it for real in 3.94 seconds.

(Yes, I timed it.)

No long onboarding or signup process.

Instead, your changes are saved locally.

Once you're ready to commit, you can connect your Google account through the command palette.

Behind the scenes, we then sync your local changes with your GCal and our cloud servers.

Why do this?

  1. To make it easier to test out the app
  2. To pave the way to offline mode
  3. To make french aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry proud, who believed that "perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

If you've been meaning to try it out but haven't because you lost your trusty Google pw, now's the time.

Try it now: https://app.compasscalendar.com/​

Or

​Watch the 70-second demo here​

video preview​

A few tips for existing users

  1. Refresh the page if the code seems old.
  2. If the data is stale, type "z" to log out and then log back in.

Cheers,

Tyler

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