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If you want a sleek app that can help you manage your focus and events, and you're on your computer (not mobile), give the updated Compass Calendar another look: ​https://app.compasscalendar.com​ We’ve added lots of tweaks to make managing your calendar feel smooth. Dragging an event from Monday to Friday now snaps smoothly into place as you move it. Events make space for each other instead of overlapping. You can right-click to assign a priority to an event. There are more shortcuts. Recurring events work. Ya know, the basics. TBH, I still use a different calendar app when I need to set up meetings or see all my sub-calendars, but I like creating new events and tasks in Compass. It just looks and feels sleek. I talk about how it “feels,” because that’s how we’re setting ourselves apart. As a small and bootstrapped team, we currently can’t integrate with all your other tools. We can’t be on your phone, tablet, watch, or TV yet. We can’t work on 10 features at the same time. But we can do the basics well. We can line up every pixel correctly. We can use complementary colors. We can add algorithms to help you place the event into the perfect slot a millisecond faster. We’ll continue to stress over the little things, while also adding the big features you’ve been asking for (next up: sub-calendars and a daily planner workflow). Check things out for yourself: https://app.compasscalendar.com​ Tyler PS - Shoutouts As an open-source product, we really appreciate our new first-time contributors: @murilo9, @rhyslee211, @sarans-h, @akintewe, @chiefDevOvrlrd, @fogboots, @Amumug, @claudiahdz, @ru694, @DiegoMutre, @AzharAhmed-bot, @benjaminguma, and @hanzili​ Of course, our core team members have also done some great work: Muhammed (@that-one-arab) and Victor (@victor-enogwe). Thank you all for helping us create a better product 🙏 |
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PART I: PRODUCT Compass got a little better last month, especially the UX. Views. Things are more minimal and consistent across the Day and Week views. No one used the Now view, so I cut it. RIP. Styles. All these got better: colors, shortcut hints, layouts, toasts. You can also adjust the task list’s width so the titles don’t truncate. URL. The app and website used to live on separate servers. Now everything is at https://www.compasscalendar.com. Not even URLs are safe from Operation...
Compass got a little better last month, especially the UX. It feels smoother. I could get into the weeds about the layouts, grids, pointers, and geometry that come together to make that work. Instead, I’ll just link the PR for the curious. It looks better. We made things subtler so that you can focus on what really matters: your schedule. The sidebar got narrower, icons smaller, and the colors cooler. Here’s how it looks: Week view Day view This might seem like an underwhelming update,...
Compass got a little better last month, especially for developers. Things are faster and lighter. First-time builds for devs are 74% faster. Artifacts are 66% smaller. We ship 36% fewer dependencies. This makes working with Compass a lot more enjoyable. Self-hosting is easier. It’s been possible to self-host Compass ever since we went open-source in 2023. However, actually pulling that off took a lot of time (like, hours). We wanted to make it easier to get up and running. So, we added an...