YearView

YearView - a calm planning tool that shows you your entire year at once. $1/mo. First 100 sign-ups get a month free.

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Most calendars zoom in. YearView zooms out.
See your entire year at once. Plan with clarity, not clutter.

PS: First 100 get 1 month free. Then it’s $1/mo.
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@PachoNids thanks pacho — the hardest part of building this app has honestly been resisting the urge to add features. every "what if we also…" gets a no by default.

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the longer i build a yearly planner the more convinced i am that the calendar's job isn't to fill your year. it's to protect the parts you didn't think you'd need to defend.

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@Krishna2008SR gonna push back a little here. planning is procrastination only when it's open ended. give it a 25 min timer and a single output (one page, one list, whatever) and it stops being a hiding place. the trap isn't planning, it's planning without a deadline.

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@nikolam_dev writing things down to track yourself is honestly the highest leverage planning habit there is.

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@VicksonETP yeah the calendar has basically become a rolling 90-day thing now. building a yearly planner i keep wrestling with this — people still want the long view, they just don't want to be locked into it. soft annual, hard quarterly is where i've landed.

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@PachoNids the framework you posted is solid btw — we just keep finding that the best operators add a column for what they're willing to *not* do that quarter. subtraction is its own kpi.

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@thekelechianita monthly plans almost always beat quarterly ones for me. closer feedback loop.

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@JulesMandoX kids force the constraint that turns most indie hackers into shippers. you stop optimizing for 8-hour deep work blocks and start respecting the 90-minute window. the plan gets simpler because it has to.

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the first feature we cut from yearview was the daily todo list. nobody opens a yearly calendar to plan tuesday. they open it to remember they have a life.

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@MsssCarr this honestly changed how i think about quarterly planning. retrospective > prospective.

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@MaxMusing honestly the shorter the team, the more a yearly view actually helps — not for tasks, just so you don't accidentally pivot four times in march.

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@HudBeer agree on shipping > planning, but i think there's a middle ground. a loose yearly view of themes (not tasks) keeps me from drifting without locking me into obsolete plans. the plan isn't the artifact, the direction is.

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@tech_summaries only at the top of the funnel. for the rest of us building small useful things, capital was never the game. the most durable apps i love still got there one careful feature at a time.

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@schoopydobloop honestly the thing that's worked best for me isn't promotion, it's just being a real person in conversations adjacent to the problem the app solves. people don't click ads, they click humans they recognize.

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@ant_murphy curious how AI changed the synthesis vs the surfacing. for me the value of quarterly review was always the act of slowly remembering. when AI does the remembering, does the insight still land the same way?

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@Hazel52389 @JacobHEvans true but i think there's a difference between planning and overplanning. 30 mins zooming out a year saves me from a hundred bad weekly decisions. the trap is when planning becomes the work.

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@MindXacademy neurological protection is the right frame. same reason zooming out to a yearly view helps me, less context switching between calendars, todo lists, and "what season am i in"

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weeks lie. months blur. but the year, when you can actually see all 12 at once, has a shape. you can feel where the heavy months are before they crush you. that's the only kind of planning that's ever worked for me.

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@MaxMusing weekly is real, yearly is shape. it's the messy middle (quarters) that always lies