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Products that do what We built an uncomplicated calendar tool for low-fidelity planning does
My partner and I do a lot of planning around things like holidays and trips, which involves a mix of firm, tentative, and overlapping plans, and normal calendars are the wrong fidelity for that kind of planning. We often found ourselves drawing on top of screenshots of calendars with tools like Miro or even printing out calendars we could draw on. We're both product designers, and so we're used to working in low fidelity tools like Excalidraw and FigJam. We decided to try and make a low-fidelity equivalent for calendars, and built Walnut. It's just lines and stickies, with a few different…
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I love the looks and UX of the Google calendar. But I wanted to have a version I could use more freely in my own projects, still looking similar to the one from Google.
2024 · schedule-x.dev
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Inspired by Minimal[1] and Netnik[2] printable calendars, I wanted a way to fit as many habits on a single sheet of paper as possible. This is very much a work-in-progress, so beware of bugs. I will flush it out over the next few days. Happy New Year, everyone! [1] https://useminimal.com/habit-tracker [2] https://neatnik.net/calendar/
2024 · habitcalendar.co
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2020 · pomodorocalendar.com
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Hi HN, I built a tiny tool because I couldn’t find a clean, distraction-free monthly planner that: 1. shows a clean monthly task view 2. doesn’t require an account 3. doesn’t sync or store anything online 4. works offline 5. is printable 6. and keeps a minimal, distraction-free aesthetic So I made https://printcalendar.top/ — a minimal monthly task planner. It’s intentionally simple. No logins, no integrations, no dashboards. Just a small tool for people who want structure without clutter.
Dec 2025 · printcalendar.top
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Hey Hacker News! To test implementing AI (and paywalls tbh) in software for the first time, I made this simple calendar creator (no mail address required) that lets a person create a calendar based on his needs and availability and export it to his calendar app, pdf or receive a daily newsletter with his daily tasks (and more). After wrestling with different models (f.e. with huggingface) and encountering different problems, I decided to use ChatGPT's models, tune them a little and see how the result works out. ChatGPT's low price enables me to give users the opportunity to create calendars…
2024 · calendarplusai.com
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2019 · spase.io
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I got the idea of [mindmap.so](http://mindmap.so/) out of my own frustration of managing my personal notes in Notion and Miro in parallel. I have built it 3 months back on top of excalidraw, posted it in Reddit a couple of times, and never looked back (was using it only for personal use). Little did I know that the small and nimble tool that I created has crossed 2000+ users (was so surprised when I saw the dashboard last week). It was all organic and word of mouth . Having 2000+ users trusting a product is no easy feat. That’s when I thought may be I should put some more…
2024 · mindmap.so
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2015 · nevra.net
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Quick project to solve an annoying problem, calendly scheduling with 3 or more people. Stupidly hacky code https://github.com/fbergen/findtime
2023 · findtime.fberge.com
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2020 · dailymap.app
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Care to share a screenshot and the 'killer feature' of any of your personal, self-built productivity tools? eg. I made my own calendar and money-tracker last year - there are no other users, it makes no money, I have no plans to make it public, but it holds my life together :) http://i.imgur.com/h2keJDg.png GREAT BECAUSE... it tells me how much I'm going to get paid this month. Absolutely no ulterior motive here (ie. I'm not canvassing opinions for a productivity app startup or anything), just interested.
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For years I've used paper and a printed clock to organise my day. Found it way better than any list or timeline app. Played around a bit and made a digital clone to speed things up: Reassign.app (best experience is on desktop) Anyone else think of their day as a circle rather than a list? edit: it also has MCP integration (https://reassign.app/api/mcp) — my Claude already connects to Linear and Calendar, so I use it to start and plan my day. I can quickly get a skeleton of a day out and then polish until done.
May 2026 · reassign.app
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Hello and Happy New Year HN! Hope all the bests in 2022. So I've been working on a minimal calendar app , named Clendar (Calendar without an 'a'). I know, it's not a good SEO name, but I will go with it :) I've been building Clendar on my spare time. At first, it's just a side weekend project so that I can learn new Apple technologies, but, the app came to the point of usability that I think I should publish on the App Store anyway for the world to know and use it. Besides, I have been trying to design the app for minimal and usability in mind. Also, the app is fully open-source, as a way…
2022
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If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment! For additional information, click the link provided. I decided to present the extra details on a webpage because it’s easier to organize and format the information in a way that’s clear and more digestible.
2025 · running4-m.github.io
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Hello fellow hackers! I love creating products that solve people's needs. One day, my wife asked me if I knew of any tools that could help plan a week-long company getaway. The requirements were fairly straightforward: - 14 people - A 7-day trip - Sometime in the next 6 months They weren’t concerned about choosing the exact time yet; they just needed to know which dates would work for everyone—or put another way, when does it NOT work? I searched but couldn’t find anything that met this specific need, so I decided to build it myself. The concept is simple: think of it as an inverse Doodle.…
2024 · whennot.com
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Hello! For the last year I've been working on a side project, a booking management system. Among others, it allows anyone who owns a business that accepts bookings to manage them, to communicate with customers, to easily create a personalized website or to embed a calendar widget on any existing website. Link: https://www.planorio.com There is still a long way to go, but I feel that now it is ready for some very direct feedback. :) It mainly consists of an Angular frontend, a backend written in Node.js and some small tools written in PHP and Kotlin. I also created a hybrid mobile…
2019
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Hi! I'm launching https://intentions.life, a calendar designed for small habits. I used Google Calendar for 6 years, but found it hard to put small habits there, because everything takes up at least 15 minutes worth of space. It was one of the reasons my health deteriorated whenever I was too focused on writing code and talking to users for my startup. So since 2022, I spent my holidays building intentions.life. It lets me configure all my habits/chores in one place, and display them as compact bullet points. You can see the in-depth demos without logging in, and use the…
2024
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With the new year around the corner I was looking for a habit tracker. None of the ones I found off-the-shelf had the simplicity or the kind of visualization I was looking for. So I built a simple tool that visualizes your habits in a circular wheel, similar to the GitHub contributions graph but in a radial format. This was inspired by the Activity Rings on iOS. It's built with vanilla JavaScript (no frameworks) and works entirely in the browser. Features: - Visual wheel interface for daily habits - Weekly and monthly habit tracking - Data persistence using localStorage - Import/export…
2024 · github.com
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Hey HN This project took almost two years and is probably one the best alternatives for tools like Miro and MindMeister Let me know what you think
Nov 2025 · nodeland.io
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I got tired of trying to figure out my vacation balance throughout the year, so I made this website to be a stupid simple solution. It was pretty satisfying to bang it out over a weekend. * not all holidays are supported, and probably will do some custom-holiday-in-cookie functionality, but this is a common US list. * basically only looks good on 'normal' sized browsers
2023 · daysoffplanner.com
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Jul 2026 · github.com
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