Thanks! No interest in making things that have already been made - that's boring. We're here to put something new in the world. Our stuff isn't for everyone, especially those that like things they way they are, but for those who are open to something different, here we are! -JF
I don't think you understand the statement. I'm referring to the fact that they're innovating on how these things should look and work rather than building another copy of what already exists.@@trentguillory9808
This is wild how much this calendar concept overlaps with the weekly paper calendar I've been making the past 18 months down to the "Sometime this week" and habits. Really great first principles build up -- kudos to you and your team!
Thanks! Paper calendars, not digital calendars, served as much of the inspiration for the HEY Calendar. Flexibility and personality are key tenets. -JF
Reading all the comments, I must be in the minority here… it does look fun, it’s a cute and friendly design, but not what I signed up for. HEY as an email service feels stagnant. I thought the screener and bucketing concept would get more advanced over time but it hasn’t. The reader view for the Feed needs a lot of love. There should be an auto-screen-in feature based on an email’s content. Throwing out some random thoughts… I dont recommend HEY anymore, I just feel stuck here since adopting it wholeheartedly
We've been focusing most of our energy over the last few months on finishing up the Calendar and integrating it with HEY. Huge project, massive upgrade included for free. But we've also been busy with these improvements too: www.hey.com/new/ HEY keeps getting better in ways big and small, sometimes obvious, sometimes less so, but nothing is being ignored. 2024 is going to be the year of HEY. Lots more to come. -JF
I love how you guys set up your email and now you've got a great way to do calendars (you get me and how I like things). I can't wait to start using your email (now with calendar) again! Can't wait to see what else you guys do moving forward!!
I’m not too sure about this calendar at the moment. I might have to try it to see but at the moment it doesn’t jump out to me. UI feels a little cluttered and sort of “crazy”… I love the hey email client and the look and feel but not entirely sold just yet on the calendar - it’s great to see a team pushing the boundaries and the habit tracking feature is really neat. One thing you could add in the future is third party integration like seeing a small indication when a workout was completed or when you listened to music etc - probably best for a mobile version though.
So exciting to finally see this! Been anxiously awaiting it, and it did not disappoint. I love how much fresh thinking is represented here for such a familiar tool like a digital calendar! Can’t wait to get my hands on it, and see it continually evolve. Ever grateful for the sharp, innovative thinking from 37signals!
I love it, Jason and HEY Team! One suggestion, can you make the Day name recurring with a picture? For example your grandparent's anniversary you used as an example, you could add the picture and day name that will show every year - that would be nice.
Wow such a well thought out and refreshing approach. Even simple things like trqcking habits and uploading bg images to give context to a day makes so much sense. Excited to try it!
Looking forward to trying this out, although the switch from the vertical week view to horizontal day view seems a bit jarring to me. Personally, horizontal timelines only work well when they're static and finished, like on a printed page. For me it's much easier to compare two timelines presented in a vertical format. Also, horizontal swiping is just hard work comparing to vertical scrolling, and on mobile you will always see less events than when you'd see in a vertical mode - assuming the horizontal day view will also be present and only view in mobile app? Also, reading text set vertically is much harder even if it's only a short line. I'd be interested knowing the rationale that went behind the horizontal day view, if you are able to share? Thanks
Give it a shot, and give your brain some credit - you adjust fast and it's quite natural once you use it. This is especially true since the things on your calendar are things you're familiar with. There's a visual muscle memory when you see things you understand, even in vertical orientation. Further, books in libraries and bookstores have been organized vertically for well over a thousand years. It works. -JF
God damn, you guys just saved me from another yearly payment to Fantastical. This looks awesome. Was waiting for you to mention the ability to have outside calendar subscriptions shown so your work gcal events can show on there, and I'm sold!
Yup, you can add external calendars in as long as they offer .ics feeds (which Google Calendar, Outlook, and Apple Calendar do). I'm subscribed to a few external calendars, including all my events from our company's Basecamp account (which also offers .ics feeds you can subscribe to). It's killer! -JF
Thank you to a great v1 of something new. I have no idea how it will pan out on a daily basis. Curious to try it. One thing I am missing (and I am sure you are gonna refer me to some time in the future, which is totally fine): I would love to import the birthdays from my address book. Stay amazing
I LOVE the habits feature!!! So helpful! Also loving the labeling the day and the orange line tracking where you’re at in the day. Also the Sometime this week is genius! Just loving all the features! Can’t wait to use this calendar!!
thanks for the update, looks amazing ! One thing I am not too sure about : your event can be either "maybe" or another category ("family", "work" etc), but it sounds to me that an event could totally be a "maybe" AND a family event, a work event, or whatever else.
It all starts with Maybe. You don't need to distinguish beyond that until you're sure it's going to happen. Then you can change the category to the final category of choice. -JF
Love everything about this new calendar! I run a solo consulting business and use HEY for email but also maintain a Microsoft 365 account only for their calendar and Team's video call scheduling. If you can integrate with Teams and/or Zoom, I can eliminate having two email accounts (one for HEY and one for my Microsoft email/calendar account). The last feature that would be great for the calendar is something Teams has whereby I can share a link with someone that shows my availability and allows them to schedule a call with me. This saves a lot of time sending date/time options back and forth with clients. But these are nice to haves. Great job on v1 and I like how you've sort of reinvented the calendar just as you did in reinventing email with HEY!
You can paste in Teams or Zoom links into an event and you'll get a simple button to join, but we don't currently offer integration to create Teams or Zoom meetings from within the calendar. We have some original ideas around suggesting times. Not fully baked yet, but eager to get that in the product down the road. I don't like how the current systems work, and I feel like everyone's following the same models. Time for some new thinking. -JF
@@37signals Agreed on it being time for new thinking on calendar solutions. You nailed it with HEY and I can't imagine going back to an old-school email platform. Can't wait to use v1 of your new calendar once it's launched. Happy New Years!
I was waiting for this given how much I love the email, and the thoughtfulness is very apparent here too. But I find the horizontal day view (with flipped vertical text) hard to follow, I wish there was a vertical option we could switch to.
Would love to use it more that being said, one of the things I frequently use is CarPlay when I'm driving, and the Apple Maps destinations feature helps pull up all the event locations from my calendar and suggests them as routes. Wondering if and how will HEY Calendar provide access to this feature.
Looks great! Would be nice if there was any localization in it. For example the date formats with am/pm we do not use that over here . Also if we could create events in connected Google calendars that would be great.
Bet you surprise yourself. You don't have to turn your head any more than you do at a library or bookstore. Vertical text is much easier to read than you think. Give your brain some credit, -JF
Really love it, in particular the ability to personalise a day with a background image and a headline, the timer, the "sometime this week", and the habit tracker. One thing I noticed though is the inability to delete an event which is from a subscribed calendar. I understand it would be difficult to edit but could we at least be able to delete it? Otherwise one has to go to the original calendar to do the changes before then seeing them on the integrated Hey calendar.
Really enjoy the thought behind this calendar and hopefully it will be the one I actually use! Looking forward to giving it a shot once I get a chance to subscribe to Hey. Keep on being awesome 37signals.
Loving what I am seeing an testing it out. Only thing I don't quite understand is how to share the Hey! Calendar (read only) with my work Google Cal or Basecamp Cal (example). In you the video, you have your Basecamp work cal imported. But how can you schedule something on your Basecamp Cal without the overlaying of your Hey! Cal? Same goes with any other calendar. My office staff sees my calendar but not my Hey! Calendar. Is there a way to show a read only of the Hey! Calendar?
I love it, you guys make the best products. Your thoughtfulness is key. I want to move, so badly, but I'm so ingrained with the Big G. Do you have a migration feature? Or a process? Share calendar function? Like Calendly? What about API integration with my CRM? I'm thinking this is more personal (read: Human) than business.
I love this. I've never really been a calendar user, let alone been excited about a calendar, but this might change both those things. Has definitely already changed the latter.
I've never been a big calendar fan either, primarily because I've found digital calendars too rigid and stuffy. Paper has always offered more flexibility and personality, which I think is important when you're talking about your time, your days. With the HEY Calendar, we've tried to incorporate some of the whimsy of paper, with the advantages of digital. We're proud of where we landed, and of course there's more to come over time. Hope you enjoy it. -JF
I really respect the founders and frameworks of 37Signals and I want to like their products - but never do. The eclectic/crafty design aesthetic and decisions always feel incomplete and confusing. I appreciate the little touches (circling events 🎉, current time indicator ❤, maybe styling, etc) but overall look and feel seems disjointed (e.g. purple gradient asana like week drop-down ??😅) Either way congrats on pushing something new in endless flat and glossy saas landscape 🎉🎉🎉
Looks pretty great. I can already see possibilities for new features and flavoring added in the future. Simplicity and easiness so far is refreshing. Looking forward to the release 🎉 Vertical text in day view is a bit weird looking to me, but I guess it’s all about getting used to it. Overall very interesting mix of calendar, time tracking and reminder 👍
Time tracking is something that modern digital calendars lack: alarm clocks and timers essentially have to be built into the calendar because they too occupy some temporal space and have a coordinate in time. That's very cool. But what about events of indefinite duration? A live example: last week I scheduled a meeting with someone to invite them to my project and explain the details. By default, any calendar (I set Basecamp calendar in project to track this) assumes the duration of any new event to be an hour. But in situations like this I can't guarantee that. The meeting can go quickly (e.g., due to rejection or full understanding of my proposal) in half an hour, or it can drag on (as it did) to engaging conversations for four and a half. As a result, as with any calendar, I have to change the duration of the "Meet X" event retroactively. I was expecting HEY to solve this in some elegant way, like a strip of minimal thickness with a start time designation, no end time, which I would have to assign separately, like by editing the event after it had passed or same as stop button from time tracking or something.
Excited to track how I spend my time with less hassle, and I love the focus on have on looking forward to future events to form positive associations with our calendars. Ready to say goodbye to Google Calendar!
I wonder if you can just copy repeating events and paste it to another day (like a working shifts or special meetings in the morning and afternoon which come repeated in unregular intervals) instead of putting it in for each day with clicking and creating a new event. Is that possible?
I never had a calendar where things just been stacked up. What apple like pseudo (re)invention is that? I always saw empty areas with size dependent on the time in like EVERY calendar app ever?!? I always had a now needle even in outlook and teams. Sorry didn't see the big difference you claim.
Wow, I would love to know the list of features included in Hey calendar, and how long does it take to implement them with your "2 person team" approach. Thank you for giving us a glimpse into how you design the product.
So much to like about this calendar but, unless I can integrate with my work calendar I probably won't use it. And I'd never use the day view - just too wonky to get used to.
Can we have 2 countdowns active? For example, one countdown for an event in 5 days and another one in 10 days. Thank you for sharing. Very interesting, as always.
Hey! So excited to try it out when it’s released. A question about habits: will it only be possible to connect habits to specific days, or will it also be possible to connect habits to weeks? For example, if I want to work out three times a week but which days are not important. Will this be possible or will I then have to use the “some time this week” function as a workaround? 😊
Thanks! Habits are currently created on a daily basis. You pick the days. If you only wanted something once a week, just say "Wednesday" (for example). But you can't currently skip weeks or set up habits that only happen once a month. Maybe down the road. Wanted to start simple. We'll see how people use it. -JF
It seems like you might be able to just set the Workout habit to occur every day, then click the Habit (i.e., Workout icon) for the days you exercise. Then, in the Habit tracking (around 4:48 in the video), you'll get a nice overview of how you've been doing week to week against your goal. Would that work?
Great stuff! The flow of a day and a week which makes time feel more natural. 'Next month' feels far away unless you display weeks as is done in the Hey calendar. Love labelling a day or having a picture there to be more intentional about what a day is going to be. Time and habit tracking: so logical that it is strange that this is not a default calendar feature 🙂 @37signals, any thoughts on triaging incoming requests as you did with mail? Or a meeting wizard that warns when you want to plan something with more than 8 people longer than 30 minutes?
A lot of these features are things Fantastical has done for years, like tasks, the current time line, the endless scrolling view; ability to flag events as more important, sharing availability, etc.
Habits look cool. Daily timeline seems not legible. Other features not sure. Downsides to me are that it seems more complicated than the gcal and there’s no voice assistant. I barely create events by typing them up these days.
Curious, how much time do you spend preparing for this type of preview? i.e. did you write a lot of content / points down, or are you just freestyling the whole thing?
Nope, this is specifically designed for HEY. Entirely different product for a different purpose. You can bring your Basecamp schedule into the HEY Calendar though. -JF
I am not a user of Hey, just like watching these presentations :) Week view looks interesting. But vertical day view is not my cup of a tea. Probably would just use the week view. Maybe i just don't have that many events. But it irks me to read vertical text on graphs as well :)
Great stuff! Quick question - Why did your team decide on making the "change background picture" icon viewable on hover instead of making it a persistent icon? Wouldn't the persistent icon make the functionality more discoverable for the end-user. (Again just curious about your thoughts on the decision - this was a great demo video).
Because you'd see the icon over and over and over and over. It's a neat feature, but it doesn't deserve that kind of permanent presence. And once you discover it, you know how it works without it staring you in the face all the time. In our approach, we wanted to make it possible, not obvious: world.hey.com/jason/the-obvious-the-easy-and-the-possible-2e11a3fb -JF
Thanks to the A**le Review team, one can use this application without an account, to browse Events in Apple's History. Thanks to the developer team to implement these data. 😛
I love Hey! BUT, am I the only one that doesn't like the email fonts and size? When you send out an email, it is either too small or too bold. There is nothing pleasing to the eye. It goes against all email marketing basics. PS: I have been with Basecamp for at least 15 years . So, I am a huge 37 Signals fan :)
Don't need to apologize! FWIW, the week view is essentially a perpetual month view - it just depends on your screen size. Not only do you get to see what's happening week to week without truncation or minimization, but you get to see your *actual* days - the time between events, the relative length of events, too. So much better than a condensed month view where everything's scrunched together, displayed the same way, and free time is lost. -JF
Great job. It's refreshing to be a customer of a product team using their brain and not just building "another" something.
Thanks! No interest in making things that have already been made - that's boring. We're here to put something new in the world. Our stuff isn't for everyone, especially those that like things they way they are, but for those who are open to something different, here we are! -JF
I agree.
This is “another” calendar… and kind of a todo list. Arguably the most common “another” product out there
I don't think you understand the statement. I'm referring to the fact that they're innovating on how these things should look and work rather than building another copy of what already exists.@@trentguillory9808
As a software developer, I love these product walkthroughs! They're a great UI/UX learning resource.
Thanks! They're really fun to do. Will continue doing more as long as people like them. -JF
This is wild how much this calendar concept overlaps with the weekly paper calendar I've been making the past 18 months down to the "Sometime this week" and habits. Really great first principles build up -- kudos to you and your team!
Thanks! Paper calendars, not digital calendars, served as much of the inspiration for the HEY Calendar. Flexibility and personality are key tenets. -JF
Reading all the comments, I must be in the minority here… it does look fun, it’s a cute and friendly design, but not what I signed up for. HEY as an email service feels stagnant. I thought the screener and bucketing concept would get more advanced over time but it hasn’t. The reader view for the Feed needs a lot of love. There should be an auto-screen-in feature based on an email’s content. Throwing out some random thoughts…
I dont recommend HEY anymore, I just feel stuck here since adopting it wholeheartedly
We've been focusing most of our energy over the last few months on finishing up the Calendar and integrating it with HEY. Huge project, massive upgrade included for free. But we've also been busy with these improvements too: www.hey.com/new/ HEY keeps getting better in ways big and small, sometimes obvious, sometimes less so, but nothing is being ignored.
2024 is going to be the year of HEY. Lots more to come. -JF
I love how you guys set up your email and now you've got a great way to do calendars (you get me and how I like things). I can't wait to start using your email (now with calendar) again! Can't wait to see what else you guys do moving forward!!
Feature request: Option to default to week view when switching to calendar
YES. That would be fantastic
Went right on it the moment I got the email. This has been worth the wait. Thanks, I love it, the habits, the day naming etc!
Fantastic, thanks! Glad you're digging it. -JF
I’m not too sure about this calendar at the moment. I might have to try it to see but at the moment it doesn’t jump out to me. UI feels a little cluttered and sort of “crazy”… I love the hey email client and the look and feel but not entirely sold just yet on the calendar - it’s great to see a team pushing the boundaries and the habit tracking feature is really neat.
One thing you could add in the future is third party integration like seeing a small indication when a workout was completed or when you listened to music etc - probably best for a mobile version though.
So exciting to finally see this! Been anxiously awaiting it, and it did not disappoint. I love how much fresh thinking is represented here for such a familiar tool like a digital calendar! Can’t wait to get my hands on it, and see it continually evolve. Ever grateful for the sharp, innovative thinking from 37signals!
Thanks Jesse! Eager to get it in your hands. Almost there. -JF
I love it, Jason and HEY Team! One suggestion, can you make the Day name recurring with a picture? For example your grandparent's anniversary you used as an example, you could add the picture and day name that will show every year - that would be nice.
I like it, and we have considered that, but didn't want to complicate things for v1 with extra config and settings. Simple is best for now. -JF
Wow such a well thought out and refreshing approach. Even simple things like trqcking habits and uploading bg images to give context to a day makes so much sense. Excited to try it!
Thanks! Appreciate your comment. -JF
This looks amazing. I cannot wait to use it. HEY continues to add value. Much appreciated!
Your work has inspired me for years even though I'm just a lowly designer on a relatively boring SaaS app :) Thanks for putting these out. 🙏
Looking forward to trying this out, although the switch from the vertical week view to horizontal day view seems a bit jarring to me. Personally, horizontal timelines only work well when they're static and finished, like on a printed page. For me it's much easier to compare two timelines presented in a vertical format. Also, horizontal swiping is just hard work comparing to vertical scrolling, and on mobile you will always see less events than when you'd see in a vertical mode - assuming the horizontal day view will also be present and only view in mobile app? Also, reading text set vertically is much harder even if it's only a short line. I'd be interested knowing the rationale that went behind the horizontal day view, if you are able to share? Thanks
Give it a shot, and give your brain some credit - you adjust fast and it's quite natural once you use it. This is especially true since the things on your calendar are things you're familiar with. There's a visual muscle memory when you see things you understand, even in vertical orientation. Further, books in libraries and bookstores have been organized vertically for well over a thousand years. It works. -JF
This is the coolest calendar I've ever seen! Nice work! 👏👏👏
Wow! This looks like a solid calendar. As always, it feels like this is going to be another great application. Great job!
Appreciate that, thanks Darrin! -JF
God damn, you guys just saved me from another yearly payment to Fantastical. This looks awesome. Was waiting for you to mention the ability to have outside calendar subscriptions shown so your work gcal events can show on there, and I'm sold!
Yup, you can add external calendars in as long as they offer .ics feeds (which Google Calendar, Outlook, and Apple Calendar do). I'm subscribed to a few external calendars, including all my events from our company's Basecamp account (which also offers .ics feeds you can subscribe to). It's killer! -JF
Thank you to a great v1 of something new. I have no idea how it will pan out on a daily basis. Curious to try it. One thing I am missing (and I am sure you are gonna refer me to some time in the future, which is totally fine): I would love to import the birthdays from my address book. Stay amazing
I LOVE the habits feature!!! So helpful! Also loving the labeling the day and the orange line tracking where you’re at in the day. Also the Sometime this week is genius! Just loving all the features! Can’t wait to use this calendar!!
Glad to hear it, and looking forward to getting it in everyone's hands soon. -JF
thanks for the update, looks amazing ! One thing I am not too sure about : your event can be either "maybe" or another category ("family", "work" etc), but it sounds to me that an event could totally be a "maybe" AND a family event, a work event, or whatever else.
It all starts with Maybe. You don't need to distinguish beyond that until you're sure it's going to happen. Then you can change the category to the final category of choice. -JF
Wow! I can only imagine the work that went into working with dates in this product. And also maintain compatibility with the ICS format. Great work!
We're very proud of it. The team did an outstanding job. Can't wait to get it in people's hands.
@@37signals can I become part of the team?
This looks great! Very interested to get using it
You guys really design software for the way my brain works
Love everything about this new calendar! I run a solo consulting business and use HEY for email but also maintain a Microsoft 365 account only for their calendar and Team's video call scheduling. If you can integrate with Teams and/or Zoom, I can eliminate having two email accounts (one for HEY and one for my Microsoft email/calendar account). The last feature that would be great for the calendar is something Teams has whereby I can share a link with someone that shows my availability and allows them to schedule a call with me. This saves a lot of time sending date/time options back and forth with clients. But these are nice to haves. Great job on v1 and I like how you've sort of reinvented the calendar just as you did in reinventing email with HEY!
You can paste in Teams or Zoom links into an event and you'll get a simple button to join, but we don't currently offer integration to create Teams or Zoom meetings from within the calendar.
We have some original ideas around suggesting times. Not fully baked yet, but eager to get that in the product down the road. I don't like how the current systems work, and I feel like everyone's following the same models. Time for some new thinking. -JF
@@37signals Agreed on it being time for new thinking on calendar solutions. You nailed it with HEY and I can't imagine going back to an old-school email platform. Can't wait to use v1 of your new calendar once it's launched. Happy New Years!
Very exciting update/release but the big question for me is WHEN? When will I see this new calendar in my account? 🎉
As always, these product demos are incredible. Great inspiration!
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching. -JF
I was waiting for this given how much I love the email, and the thoughtfulness is very apparent here too. But I find the horizontal day view (with flipped vertical text) hard to follow, I wish there was a vertical option we could switch to.
Excited to try this, you have rethought the experience in a great new package.
I tried it on the desktop app, easy to use even without any introduction. Really cool concept!
Would love to use it more that being said, one of the things I frequently use is CarPlay when I'm driving, and the Apple Maps destinations feature helps pull up all the event locations from my calendar and suggests them as routes. Wondering if and how will HEY Calendar provide access to this feature.
Looks great! Would be nice if there was any localization in it. For example the date formats with am/pm we do not use that over here . Also if we could create events in connected Google calendars that would be great.
I love this minus the 90 degree head turn to read on the day view! Excited to try this out ASAP
Bet you surprise yourself. You don't have to turn your head any more than you do at a library or bookstore. Vertical text is much easier to read than you think. Give your brain some credit, -JF
I am back to my little experiment--replacing Basecamp with HEY. Now, possible with this cal and the time tracking! Thank you, team!
Yeah i got rid of basecamp too this year and just swapped for hey for domains + sunsama.
Really love it, in particular the ability to personalise a day with a background image and a headline, the timer, the "sometime this week", and the habit tracker. One thing I noticed though is the inability to delete an event which is from a subscribed calendar. I understand it would be difficult to edit but could we at least be able to delete it? Otherwise one has to go to the original calendar to do the changes before then seeing them on the integrated Hey calendar.
Wow! I guess I will have to become a Hey customer then...
Looking through a 26min product demo and loving every second... rare! 🎉
We'd love to have you! And glad I was able to keep your attention. -JF
Great Product and thank for the demo, it's v helpful.
Really enjoy the thought behind this calendar and hopefully it will be the one I actually use! Looking forward to giving it a shot once I get a chance to subscribe to Hey. Keep on being awesome 37signals.
Loving what I am seeing an testing it out. Only thing I don't quite understand is how to share the Hey! Calendar (read only) with my work Google Cal or Basecamp Cal (example). In you the video, you have your Basecamp work cal imported. But how can you schedule something on your Basecamp Cal without the overlaying of your Hey! Cal? Same goes with any other calendar. My office staff sees my calendar but not my Hey! Calendar. Is there a way to show a read only of the Hey! Calendar?
THANKS Jason, great demo!
I love it, you guys make the best products. Your thoughtfulness is key.
I want to move, so badly, but I'm so ingrained with the Big G.
Do you have a migration feature? Or a process?
Share calendar function? Like Calendly?
What about API integration with my CRM?
I'm thinking this is more personal (read: Human) than business.
Amazing gift for the start of 2024!
I love this. I've never really been a calendar user, let alone been excited about a calendar, but this might change both those things. Has definitely already changed the latter.
I've never been a big calendar fan either, primarily because I've found digital calendars too rigid and stuffy. Paper has always offered more flexibility and personality, which I think is important when you're talking about your time, your days. With the HEY Calendar, we've tried to incorporate some of the whimsy of paper, with the advantages of digital. We're proud of where we landed, and of course there's more to come over time. Hope you enjoy it. -JF
Would love the ability to purchase a subscription just for the calendar as the email client is not currently something I would use.
I really respect the founders and frameworks of 37Signals and I want to like their products - but never do.
The eclectic/crafty design aesthetic and decisions always feel incomplete and confusing.
I appreciate the little touches (circling events 🎉, current time indicator ❤, maybe styling, etc) but overall look and feel seems disjointed (e.g. purple gradient asana like week drop-down ??😅)
Either way congrats on pushing something new in endless flat and glossy saas landscape 🎉🎉🎉
I really liked the habits feature, great job! 🤩
Thanks, I'm enjoying it even more than I thought I would. It helps to keep me honest. -JF
Brilliant execution and a very helpful feature
I LOOOOOOOVE the "Sometime This Week" feature ❤️
Looks pretty great. I can already see possibilities for new features and flavoring added in the future. Simplicity and easiness so far is refreshing. Looking forward to the release 🎉
Vertical text in day view is a bit weird looking to me, but I guess it’s all about getting used to it.
Overall very interesting mix of calendar, time tracking and reminder 👍
Yes this is just v1. We'll keep making it better, while still keeping it clear. -JF
love it! can't wait to use it!
I just subscribed two days ago. Thanks!
Great video, very helpful.
Can you have recurring day labels? Like for anniversaries or birthdays? Nice to be able to do that withouth having to make them an event.
Can't wait to try this out
Very excited to give this a try!
I kept wanting to rotate my phone in day view. Not sure I could do horizontal.
Time tracking is something that modern digital calendars lack: alarm clocks and timers essentially have to be built into the calendar because they too occupy some temporal space and have a coordinate in time. That's very cool.
But what about events of indefinite duration? A live example: last week I scheduled a meeting with someone to invite them to my project and explain the details. By default, any calendar (I set Basecamp calendar in project to track this) assumes the duration of any new event to be an hour. But in situations like this I can't guarantee that. The meeting can go quickly (e.g., due to rejection or full understanding of my proposal) in half an hour, or it can drag on (as it did) to engaging conversations for four and a half.
As a result, as with any calendar, I have to change the duration of the "Meet X" event retroactively. I was expecting HEY to solve this in some elegant way, like a strip of minimal thickness with a start time designation, no end time, which I would have to assign separately, like by editing the event after it had passed or same as stop button from time tracking or something.
Thanks for uploading here as well!
Sure thing! -JF
Only companies I care about new product launches: Apple and 37signals. Great demo, Jason!
Nice - look forward to it!
Cool demo! One thing I'm not sure about is the text for events in the daily calendar being sideways. Looks a bit awkward to me?
agree with this, I can't read them all sideways!
I really like the ideas of thinking differently about a calendar. Looking forward to using it in everyday life. 👏🏻
Thanks! Hope you dig it once you dig in. -JF
Excited to track how I spend my time with less hassle, and I love the focus on have on looking forward to future events to form positive associations with our calendars. Ready to say goodbye to Google Calendar!
Amen! -JF
I wonder if you can just copy repeating events and paste it to another day (like a working shifts or special meetings in the morning and afternoon which come repeated in unregular intervals) instead of putting it in for each day with clicking and creating a new event. Is that possible?
I never had a calendar where things just been stacked up. What apple like pseudo (re)invention is that? I always saw empty areas with size dependent on the time in like EVERY calendar app ever?!?
I always had a now needle even in outlook and teams.
Sorry didn't see the big difference you claim.
Wow, I would love to know the list of features included in Hey calendar, and how long does it take to implement them with your "2 person team" approach. Thank you for giving us a glimpse into how you design the product.
Took us about a year to build the whole thing, including native apps for iOS and Android. -JF
@@37signals shipping a Google Calendar competitor in a year. Good job 👏
So much to like about this calendar but, unless I can integrate with my work calendar I probably won't use it. And I'd never use the day view - just too wonky to get used to.
Hey,.. eh.. love the new calendar, already planning to ditch Fantastical. Quick quesetion. how do I change the clock from am/pm to 24 hour clock?
24-hour clock isn't in version 1 of the calendar, but it's on our radar for adding soon!
Can we have 2 countdowns active? For example, one countdown for an event in 5 days and another one in 10 days. Thank you for sharing. Very interesting, as always.
Will you have some sort of integration between basecamp and hey calendar? And do you have a plan to add todos/simple project to hey?
When will the web version be available for users?
Hey! So excited to try it out when it’s released. A question about habits: will it only be possible to connect habits to specific days, or will it also be possible to connect habits to weeks? For example, if I want to work out three times a week but which days are not important. Will this be possible or will I then have to use the “some time this week” function as a workaround? 😊
Thanks! Habits are currently created on a daily basis. You pick the days. If you only wanted something once a week, just say "Wednesday" (for example). But you can't currently skip weeks or set up habits that only happen once a month. Maybe down the road. Wanted to start simple. We'll see how people use it. -JF
Would love that same option in the future too. But the daily habit is already a great start, thanks@@37signals
It seems like you might be able to just set the Workout habit to occur every day, then click the Habit (i.e., Workout icon) for the days you exercise. Then, in the Habit tracking (around 4:48 in the video), you'll get a nice overview of how you've been doing week to week against your goal. Would that work?
@@HarleyYoungisHere that’s what I do. It’s good for tracking your habit but of course you can’t have the pleasure of keeping your streak.
@@HarleyYoungisHere That sounds like a great solution! Thanks ☺️
Is it possible to import the Hey calendar into another tool (for example, my Outlook calendar)?
Great stuff! The flow of a day and a week which makes time feel more natural. 'Next month' feels far away unless you display weeks as is done in the Hey calendar.
Love labelling a day or having a picture there to be more intentional about what a day is going to be.
Time and habit tracking: so logical that it is strange that this is not a default calendar feature 🙂
@37signals, any thoughts on triaging incoming requests as you did with mail? Or a meeting wizard that warns when you want to plan something with more than 8 people longer than 30 minutes?
Or red flag words in invites like 'update' or 'catch up' (unless one on one)?
Really great stuff!
Can't wait for the Android version! I am all set now on the mac!
I like the countdown feature. Be interesting to see how multiple countdowns appear on the same day.
You can do that - they just appear with • between them. Countdown 1 • Countdown 2... -JF
I'm SO looking forward to using this! Is it going to be available on HEY for Domains too?
Eventually yes, but initially it's only for @hey.com accounts. -JF
@@37signals Thanks for the reply Jason! That's a bummer. Looking forward to it though!
😍 can't wait!
A lot of these features are things Fantastical has done for years, like tasks, the current time line, the endless scrolling view; ability to flag events as more important, sharing availability, etc.
How do you “flag events as more important” in Fantastical?
@@PeterAkkies Right click, go to Color, and pick a color that stands out for you.
If it’s a solo event I find it’s even nicer to add an emoji to the title, but that doesn’t always work for shared events.
@@coreyward Gotcha. Thanks Corey
Muy bueno!
Nice, can't wait to use.
Might just be my ocd but why are some calenders monday first others sunday?
Like the habit creator you start the week of sunday :S
So you use Fantastical and Hey Calendar ? :D
Nice overview of that neat new calendar! Any specific tool related to Hey for Domains/team work?
Habits look cool. Daily timeline seems not legible. Other features not sure. Downsides to me are that it seems more complicated than the gcal and there’s no voice assistant. I barely create events by typing them up these days.
Please bring this to Basecamp
Curious, how much time do you spend preparing for this type of preview? i.e. did you write a lot of content / points down, or are you just freestyling the whole thing?
love the ideas here but the day view is really hard to read sideways!
Does this calendar come to Basecamp too? It’s very much needed there, really.
Nope, this is specifically designed for HEY. Entirely different product for a different purpose. You can bring your Basecamp schedule into the HEY Calendar though. -JF
I am not a user of Hey, just like watching these presentations :) Week view looks interesting. But vertical day view is not my cup of a tea. Probably would just use the week view. Maybe i just don't have that many events. But it irks me to read vertical text on graphs as well :)
Great stuff! Quick question - Why did your team decide on making the "change background picture" icon viewable on hover instead of making it a persistent icon? Wouldn't the persistent icon make the functionality more discoverable for the end-user. (Again just curious about your thoughts on the decision - this was a great demo video).
Because you'd see the icon over and over and over and over. It's a neat feature, but it doesn't deserve that kind of permanent presence. And once you discover it, you know how it works without it staring you in the face all the time. In our approach, we wanted to make it possible, not obvious: world.hey.com/jason/the-obvious-the-easy-and-the-possible-2e11a3fb -JF
Thanks for the response!@@37signals
Just finished the article - it was dope! @@37signals
This looks so refreshing, is there a way to get on the beta?
Everyone with a hey.com account will have it shortly. We don't beta, we release finished software! -JF
Looks great, I hope the Android app comes with good widgets
Hey JF - what app did you use to record this video pls?
Screenflow 10 on the Mac.-JF
Will this calendar make it to the android app?
Yup, have a dedicated app for iOS and Android. -JF
@@37signals thanks
Thanks to the A**le Review team, one can use this application without an account, to browse Events in Apple's History. Thanks to the developer team to implement these data. 😛
Here's how I got my Google Workspace and iCloud family calendars to come in: th-cam.com/video/Tu9CAlnP70A/w-d-xo.html
Only 1 minute in and i wish you guys would add a month section. But maybe I wont want it after watching the whole video.
I love Hey! BUT, am I the only one that doesn't like the email fonts and size? When you send out an email, it is either too small or too bold. There is nothing pleasing to the eye. It goes against all email marketing basics. PS: I have been with Basecamp for at least 15 years . So, I am a huge 37 Signals fan :)
The lack of a month and year view is a deal-breaker for me, I'm sorry
Don't need to apologize! FWIW, the week view is essentially a perpetual month view - it just depends on your screen size. Not only do you get to see what's happening week to week without truncation or minimization, but you get to see your *actual* days - the time between events, the relative length of events, too. So much better than a condensed month view where everything's scrunched together, displayed the same way, and free time is lost. -JF
@@37signals actually, I think it is not as bad as I thought it would be. I'm enjoying it so far
cool. then you can give me hey email groups the same color as the hey calendar's.
I really love the background color of Hey email - really hoping this is carried over to calendar as well in some way. #1b2733