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Re:Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months a... by ttul on Friday September 25, 2020 @01:55PM (#24592363)
This is an electronic version of a "bring forward" filing system that has been around for many decades. An older friend of mine showed me his "bring forward" file: it has a file for each month and also a file for each of the coming four weeks (labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 because some months have five weeks).

He just puts things - like bills, for instance - in the appropriate folder depending on when they're due. And then once a week or month has passed, it gets rotated to the back of the box. It's a great approach; a digital version would replicate the same concept and would be particularly useful if it incorporated the notion of attached documents such as invoices.

Re:Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months a... by jasonpeacock on Friday September 25, 2020 @03:55PM (#24593503)
Yep, that's called "43 Folders" or a "Tickler File":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickler_file

Re:Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months a... by wrentopher on Friday September 25, 2020 @02:20PM (#24592634)
I'd love to learn more and see about incorporating this concept. Contact me on the site if you'd like to contribute suggestions.
Re:Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months a... by Fnoord on Friday September 25, 2020 @07:05PM (#24594970)
How does this differ from week numbers (1-52)?
Re:Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months a... by ttul on Saturday September 26, 2020 @02:06PM (#24600822)
Perhaps it's harder to keep track of week numbers. I'm implementing the concept in Asana using their calendar project view. I put stuff in the calendar view as tasks and then in a board view of the same project, those tasks are simply in my backlog column.
Re:Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months a... by dkarp on Saturday September 26, 2020 @06:09AM (#24597649)
Week numbers a based on the start of the year, whereas as these are based on today?