Calendarist

Where's your time going?

Calendarist gives you a clear picture of your daily life and keeps you on track for your long-term goals.

Calendarist

How it works

Tips for getting started

  • Calendar as usual

    We’ll fetch the events that you put on your Google Calendar instantly.

  • Categorize your way

    Calendarist uses #tags to label events on your calendar and lets you sort them the way you want.

  • See how you’re spending your time

    We’ll take a look at those tags and tell you how much time you’ve spent on them.

How it works

Features

How Calendarist helps you track time

  • Seamless integration

    No setup, just use your existing Google calendar and Calendarist syncs your new events whenever you log in.

  • Predictive tagging

    After tagging a few items, Calendarist can suggest tags for new events on your calendar, shortening the process to a few seconds every week.

  • Goals

    Create ambitious goals and stick to them. Calendarist tracks the time you spend toward these goals, so you know if you’re on track to achieve them.

Features

Easy to use

An all-in-one dashboard

Tag events, track your time, and see your progress in one place. Calendarist shows your weekly breakdown immediately.

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Inspiration

What is time blocking? How do I know what to track?

Effective time blocking starts with having goals for how you want to spend your time. Whether it’s personal milestones, hobbies, or family time, track what you want to prioritize in your daily life. Here are some sample tags from our own calendars:

  • #sleep
  • #work
  • #food
  • #friends
  • #boyfriend
  • #family
  • #chill (social media, Netflix, etc)
  • #errands
  • #workout
  • #sideproject (this app! so meta!)
Inspiration

Why we built this

Why we built this

We started time blocking after listening to an episode of the Indie Hackers podcast with productivity author Nir Eyal, where he discussed how various mindless tasks like scrolling social media and responding to emails occupied his life. Nir solved this far too common problem by proactively scheduling his day on his calendar. Instead of letting those activities take control of him, he would keep them in check by mindfully limiting them to a healthy dosage. At the same time, this strategy allowed him to prioritize the work that created the most value in his life, by simply setting aside time for it.


Relating far too well to the days he described, we started calendar blocking too, scheduling sleep, work, exercise — almost every single activity that took more than half an hour. And with enough data, we started to wonder... What could we learn about the time we were spending? Were we prioritizing the activities that were most important to us?


We built Calendarist to analyze all the events we were scheduling on our calendars. What we learned surprised us — mostly, how much of our lives were consumed by sleep and work. It showed just how precious those hours between 6pm and 12am are, and how important it is for us to make the most of them. Calendarist started as a tool to keep us accountable to the lives we wanted to lead and the goals we wanted to achieve, and now we’re sharing it with the rest of the world in hopes that it does the same for you.

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Designed and built in New York City.