Show IH: Scratching our own itch by creating a weekly planner

Hi Indiehackers!

@sanderfish and I just launched a product called Essential (https://essentialcal.com). Essential is a weekly planner that helps you plan your work, personal and social life.

Essential is basically a grid of 21 blocks, mapped over seven days. Each day has three blocks (morning, afternoon and evening). You can write down one priority in each block. You can break up your priority in smaller tasks if you want. To have an overview of all impediments in each block, you can connect your Google Calendar. That's it.

I have been using this method (on paper) for a couple of years now after my psychologist recommended it. The idea of digitizing the product came from a discussion we had back in April on how to get more out of a week as a founder, without going insane. @sanderfish wrote a great article about this and how to find clarity and focus here: https://medium.com/swlh/finding-clarity-and-focus-as-a-maker-by-using-a-planning-system-9baa96c0e075.

Although we created the product for ourselves, it would be awesome if it could help other founders getting their time back. We are now in the process of validating the idea and would love to hear your feedback. You can leave it in the comments or send me a PM.