The Verge: There’s another company vying to be the place you go to manage your time. It’s called Amie, and it’s one of the best-looking calendar apps I’ve used. It’s available today for iOS, Mac, and the web after four years in development and many months in beta testing. I’ve been using it off and on for a long time, and I like it a lot.
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This looks super helpful to me. As someone who is unorganized and late to everything, this would really help me out. It is a calendar as well as a to-do list. But when I really think about it, I have tried planners, reminders calendars I even hang on my wall, but nothing helps. I think that it is just who I am. I will never be that person who is on top of everything, and that will never be my strength, instead I think of myself as more of a creative. But at what point must I combine the two to form myself into a functioning adult. This is sometimes a thought in my mind, does being an artistic person excuse you from the logicisticals of everyday life? Probably not. Combining the two calls for restrictions on both sides, I would have to restrain my outlet to be more responsible, because a lot of art is being intuitive and using ones intuition to make choices on a piece. So will I be getting this new app? Probably not.
I think that this is a very interesting application and I enjoy seeing how people redesign organization tools. There are more and more organizational apps coming onto the market, but there are not many that are built for both calendar tracking and to-do list organization. I rely very heavily on a multitude of organizational strategies to keep me focused and on track, where I do not think that this app would be helpful to me but I am sure it would be nice to others. I personally use a mix of my google calendar, assignment spreadsheet, and a physical planner. I enjoy having different places for different things, as the separation helps my brain organize and take in the information better, but I can see how other people would like it. I’m not sure how it compares to other applications such as Notion, but maybe it's a more accessible tool that doesn’t have a learners curve.
I’ve been looking for a calendar app for the past week or so, but I haven’t found one that I really liked. Looking at the description and the website, this is one that I would definitely try out. I really like the ability to color code my things, as well as be able to overlap blocks, and this has that ability, and its easy to add events in this, which would be really helpful. The fact that I can also access the calendar from both my computer and phone is another helpful things about this calendar. When I read that you can even track your Spotify listens, I knew I want to try the calendar, I love keeping track of my songs, but I don’t want to maneuver my way through Spotify to find those stats. I like how there is also a way to use maps, and as someone who travels a lot, it will be really helpful.
I am obsessed with this new app and this was such a good article. I am a google calendar girli through and through, everything is on my google calendar, however, I have started to out grow the number of color options that you get in google calendar, and Amie seems like it will have more options. I am also really bad at making time for some things so the ability to easily time block sounds very intriguing to me. I like the ability to share your calendar with your friends and internal company. Something that I really like about the CMU calendar is that you are able to look up someone's calendar and make plans more easily. I am also obsessed that one of the motos of the company is pardon my french, “fuck around and find out” because that is also one of my mottos and I heavily enjoy it.
I discovered time blocking a few years ago, and I’m so glad that Amie Calendar is designing an interface that makes time blocking easier. As someone who gets overwhelmed leaving tasks in my brain, time blocking has allowed me to get everything out of my head and onto paper. I view it as the reason I’ve succeded at Carnegie Mellon thus far. I’m currently a purist for my Goodnotes iPad Planner which connects to my Google Calendar. While not a perfect method, the tedious process of entering every day's events manually gives me time to myself to just think about how I’m using my time. This being said, I might start exploring Amie as it seems much more automated. While I love a calendar app, every reinvention of one does cause me apprehension about how dependent our society is on productivity. Why do we have to have every minute of every day scheduled, emails automatically scheduled, etc? The notion of productivity, and its equivalency to success, is one this article made me think more deeply about.
I’ve never considered the idea of a “google maps” for a calendar, or planner before. The goal setting idea makes sense, as the “directions” part of google maps pretty seamlessly connects to intermittent goals about learning or accomplishing things. I like reading about these new apps, as it’s interesting to see the differences between them and the new ideas for organization that each comes up with. I personally don’t always work well with planning/calendar apps, as either they are too complicated or won’t arrange visually in the way that works for me. I used to use Canvas in high school, primarily their ‘calendar’ function however now I use a paper planner and google calendar to organize my assignments and classes. What I lack in my personal organization however is the ongoing motivation to check my planner, as when I get an assignment it kinda sticks in the back of my brain, so I always have it in my mind (even if to the side), and so often I can accomplish my work without writing it down, however I feel that’s an unreliable way to keep track of things. Anyway this new app seems like a promising way to keep track of scheduling (and scheduling meeting up with friends!) especially if you have new goals to accomplish.
This calendar app looks super promising, and I especially like the social aspects of the calendar. As someone who likes to plan things, it would be extremely helpful to be able to plan things with my friends in that way, without going through the whole Google calendar, invites, ‘Yes/No/Maybe’ song and dance. However, the idea of time blocking like this always stresses me out. I think it's a wonderful thing in theory, and I've tried to do it many times in my own life, but to middling success most of the time. I think that a calendar like this could work if you're able to accurately understand how long everything should take you, as well as the downtime you would need to recover, or the flex time you would need to add without throwing your whole schedule off because you've added too much flex time. Personally, I love organizing schedules. Organizing my own schedule has always been excruciatingly difficult because I always try to hold myself to a higher standard than I'm capable of, and I worry that many people would fall down the same rabbit hole.
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