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🏔️ New Generation Calendars

and how it changes productivity

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Vlad Oleksiienko
March 28, 2023

Hey there,

Welcome to the SaaS Hill, a weekly newsletter that tries to predict the future of SaaS.

Let's discuss New Generation Calendars 📅.

⭐️️ Intro

In a world where productivity is essential for success, we are seeing more and more tools emerge that strive to transform the way we approach our tasks. From note-taking apps to no-code workflow automations, there seems to be no limit to the ways in which we can optimize our time. However, what's fascinating to see that there is a new category of new generation calendars that are challenging existing calendaring tools that compete with well-known and established brands.

Here is what we will discuss today:

  • 7 predictions about New Generation Calendars

  • 19 products in this category

  • 13 stats about productivity

  • 3 experts to follow

  • 2 Twitter threads

  • 3 useful links

🤔 Predictions

  1. We will see more SaaS products that will try to unify and consolidate all the to-do tools and calendars you use into one easy-to-manage place. (Akiflow, Morgen and Routine integrate with ClickUp, Notion, Todoist, Google Calendar, and Asana so that you can take care of all your tasks in one place)

  2. More likely we will use super-calendar apps that integrate with 100s of SaaS apps, pull task information from different sources and help prioritize them. Thus, it should help increase productivity.

  3. Currently, these tools market to early adopters like professionals, entrepreneurs, busy tech workers, students.

  4. New generation calendars and productivity tools will increasingly integrate with AI. They will use machine learning algorithms to suggest the best times for scheduling tasks, predict how long tasks will take, and automate repetitive tasks. Check out Morgen’s TimeTo.

  5. Users will be able to customize their calendars and productivity tools to suit their preferences and work styles. They will have greater control over the layout, color schemes, and features.

  6. Collaboration will be a key feature of new generation calendars and productivity tools. Checkout Clockwise

  7. New generation calendars and productivity tools will have more intuitive interfaces that are easy to use and navigate. E.g. Amie, Morgen and Routine

🏢 Products

  1. Amie > The joyful productivity app. Schedule time for todos, events, and contacts

  2. Morgen > One app, your time managed

  3. Routine > The most advanced calendar for productive people

  4. Sunsama > The digital daily planner that helps you feel calm and stay focused

  5. Cron > The next-generation calendar for professionals and teams

  6. Daybridge > Make time for what matters

  7. Rise > a next-generation calendar that helps find time for what’s important

  8. Hypercal > Do more impactful work with a calendar that plugs into all your apps at work

  9. Akiflow > The ultimate Time Blocking platform

  10. Reclaim > Smarter scheduling for busy teams

  11. Ready > The calendar you need to meet

  12. General Task > Build like never before

  13. KosmoTime > Smart calendar for time blocking & focused work

  14. vimcal > Fly through your calendar

  15. Magical > Schedule smarter. Work faster

  16. Motion > There are now 13 months in a year

  17. clockwise > Rework your workday

  18. Taskable > Manage your top priorities with a personal, unified to-do list and calendar

  19. Fantastical > Events. Tasks. Meetings

📊 Statistics

  1. The average employee is only productive for 2 hours and 53 minutes per day (Source: Inc)

  2. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average American works 8.8 hours every day

  3. Engaged employees are more productive, resulting in a 21% increase in profits (Source: Gallup)

  4. More than 31 hours per month are spent in unproductive meetings (Source: Atlassian)

  5. 64% of senior managers say meetings come at the expense of deep thinking (Source: HBR)

  6. 8 out of 10 Americans agree/strongly agree there should be one day a week with no meetings (Source)

  7. 24 billion hours are wasted each year as the result of unproductive meetings (Source: Zippia)

  8. The average employee participates in at least 8 meetings per week (Source: Zippia)

  9. Net productivity of an average American worker has grown by 253% in the last seven decades (Source: World Economic Forum)

  10. Switching between tasks will cost up to 40% of the productive time (Source: APA)

  11. Multitasking can have a detrimental effect on your short-term memory and artificially lower your IQ by up to 10 points (Source: Forbes)

  12. It takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to refocus on a task after a distraction (Source: Toggl)

  13. The average employee is distracted every 3 minutes (Source: Zippia)

📖 Experts to Follow

  1. Raphael Schaad > Founder at Cron

  2. Christian Reber > Founder Pitch, Superlist, Wunderlist

  3. Dennis Müller > Founder at amie

🖼️ Pitch Deck

Amie grabbed $7 million for its opinionated calendar and todo app (TechCrunch article)

🔗 Useful Links

  1. clearspace > eliminate digital distraction

  2. Tool finder > Find Productivity Tools

  3. Dockhunt > Discover the apps everyone is docking about

🐦️ Twitter Thread

1. Notion acquired Cron

2. Amie is in beta now

🤝 Related SaaS Trends

  1. 🏔 New Generation Spreadsheets > and how it changes no-code landscape

  2. 🏔 Command Bars and Unified Search Interfaces > or how to find any information blazingly fast

  3. 🏔 Productivity Browsers > a new browser or tab for work

Thanks for reading. See you next time 👋

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