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Posted by
chernobai on Thursday February 02, 2023 @06:01PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://emery.to/?hnf
We're building an app that helps people organise their days.It brings together tasks, calendars and notes into a single UI, so one can easily plan their day, stay focused throughout it and review results later.Some key features:Integration with Google Calendar (multiple calendars/accounts supported), daily and weekly planning screens, separate section for the most important tasks of the day,...
Posted by
chernobai on Monday October 24, 2022 @10:26AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://emery.to/?d
We're building an app that helps people organize their days and weeks. In a nutshell, it's a workspace that combines tasks, notes, and calendar events.Emery users can see their days and weeks on a single screen, manage their personal and professional tasks, access a single schedule of all their calendars, and navigate through their days without switching between multiple apps.What we've built...
Thanks!
No, you'll retain access to your data. We switch accounts without a subscription into a read-only mode.
Posted by
chernobai on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:37PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://emery.to/?
We're building an app that helps people manage their schedules, tasks, and notes all in one place.The goal is to create a personal workspace where people can manage their days and weeks on a single screen, set their personal and professional priorities, access a single schedule combined of all their calendars, and navigate through their days without switching between multiple apps.At the...
Regarding credit cards – that's precisely our goal. To see how many people would be ready to pay (or provide a credit card at least). Of course, our product is not as developed as one would expect and we're going to see many cancellations. But it provides a useful data point for us nevertheless. Then we can act on the feedback and develop the product further to lower cancellation rate.
That's how it works now – you can book as many time slots as you need for your tasks. From my personal experience tasks take more than a single slot quite often.
For me using Asana as a personal tool wasn't really comfortable – there are no notes (at least there wasn't back then), you have to manually assign all tasks to yourself and there is no calendar integration.
Well, we started to build it for ourselves and our own needs. It all started from my personal experience being an Engineering Manager at Bumble where I had to manage multiple priorities/projects and go through 40+ meetings a week. Then we opened for the public access and started to see some interest from other people.
Anyway, you're right, it's a long road ahead of us if we want to be competitive on this market.
Yeah, that can be confusing. At the moment it's a web app only.
Wow! Thanks for the well-structured feedback, that's extremely helpful!
We'll add information about supported providers, thanks!
Just to reply here – at the moment we support Google Calendars only.
That's very true. Launching a basic MVP is getting harder and harder nowadays as the entire space is much more developed.
Regarding the first point – that's something I'd like to have personally as I have to manage multiple calendars. We'll come there at some point for sure.
The second point – just give us a go :)
That's a very valid concern. Given how often it was expressed in this topic, looks like we need to find a way to accommodate it (e.g. export option). We'll think about it, thanks!
Well, even if it comes to that, we'll shut it down in an ethical way – allow some time to transfer the data and add some data export options.
However, we personally use it every day and want to keep it alive even for a small user base. And of course, we hope to achieve more than this and build a decent and successful product.
Makes sense, we'll add a little bit background about ourselves.
It's still early days for us and we consider our current tasks, notes and events as very basic at the moment. Just want to see if the concept works at all for other people as it works for us. There is a long road ahead to get to the full functionality we envision.
We're thinking about introducing more accessible pricing models in the future, especially given the interest from student audience.
Given, that we're building this project in our free time with no investments, we want to get to a point where we can focus solely on Emery. That's why we're starting with a bit of a steep pricing.
That's actually how we do it. Once your trial ends, we switch the account to a read-only mode.
It'll be an Electron-based app
Wow, this looks interesting
Thanks for all the suggestions!
One thing that makes Emery different from normal calendars is that you can group things together with collections. For example, you can add project-related tasks, meetings and notes in one collection. Or group together tasks, meetings and notes that relate to your boss, a peer, a direct report.
We're planning to introduce a desktop app with offline mode a bit later.
Regarding syncing – it'll still be required for syncing between devices and Google calendar integration. Google calendar sync is being done on backend as it's the most stable way from our experience.
Regarding Google – we're planning to introduce other methods later this week.
Regarding credit card process – that's understandable. Unfortunately, that's the most robust way we know to measure how many people would buy a subscription.
Well, given the amount of interest in mobile apps here, we'll think about prioritising it higher on our list.
It's still in planning at the moment
Good idea, we'll think about adding it to the landing. Thanks!