ðŸ§Â Plan your day (beta feature)
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You can already plan your month and week in a lightweight way in Compass Calendar. Now you can also plan your …. day! *John Cena entrance music* It’s a task list next to your agenda. Pretty straightforward, but don’t underestimate the power of simplicity. Showing one day’s worth of tasks/events will help you turn off that monkey brain and lock in on what you need to do today. We also added shortcuts to help manage the tasks, which will keep your mind focused and your hands away from the mouse (ew). To use this feature, you’ll need to opt in to the beta program, which just takes two clicks. I walk through the feature and the beta program in this super serious 36-second video 👇 One caveat: Day tasks are currently stored in your browser, which means if you clear your browser history, they’ll disappear. This is the price of bleeding-edge tek. We’ll be storing tasks in our cloud DB with daily backups once we release this feature out of beta. (Events and weekly/monthly tasks are already stored in the DB.) Try it out and LMK what you think!
PS. Shoutout to our latest contributor: @PatrikH-01. Thank you all for making Compass better 🫡 |
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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...
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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...