My name is Sahil, and I'm excited to share this v1 of Spase.io with you. It's a 3D planner where time moves forward, instead of in 7-day loop-de-loops, so that when you see stuff in the future, it really looks like the future.
So if you have a project deadline, a birthday party, or a reminder to do laundry, that event will actually register spatially in your mind as in the future.
Spase.io clearly not as powerful as Google Calendar or Todoist but it does hack your brain to focus on the future.
What do you like about this v1, and what do you want to see it become?
Thanks for the compliment. In my mind the biggest advantage was - and reason for building it - was to help me take a Day 1 approach to life. That every moment is the youngest you'll ever be. Not quite so apparent when all the days of the year are projected on a flat surface and arranged in rows.
Sorry but this seems like a classic 'if you have a hammer everything seems like a nail'. There is no problem with the two dimensions that a traditional calendar has. Want to know whats in the future? Turn the page or look further to the right and to the bottom. This just makes it harder to see certain groupings like months/weeks etc.
So this is neat in terms of the technical prowess it took to put together. I really want to make that clear up front because its impressive in that regard. The animation is super smooth (at least on chrome), and it looks really cool. Its amazing whats possible on the web these days.
The actual functionality of this tool itself confuses me. Why would I ever want to visualize my schedule in this manner and with this kind of a UI? When I go to make a new appointment of visualize my week/month/year/life I have never yearned for a UX that looked anything like this. Furthermore, dragging to whatever I want to see (ala google maps) potentially way far in the future would make me pull my hair out. I don't really understand how it solves anything around this problem space. I dunno maybe I just don't get it. Regardless my hats off to the people who made this and I wish them good luck.
I have an idea that I haven't had enough knowledge to build, that is new visual for folders hierarchy based on physical sense ux.
This kind of visual navigation would help user to define their own physical nested shapes like House, Rooms, Desks, Folders Files etc. This eliminates the weak points of dumb nested folders. This also helps in real physical world in putting personal items somewhere in the house, because in computer world you can "search"!
It would be interesting to see urban visual to store items in weird hierarchy such as year > month > date > items.
Kind of 3D Explorer, the same way you put stuff in your house. Home directory is a whole house, then rooms for several categories, something like that. It's not a new idea I think some people had tried.
I'm sure this works great at impressing people who wear ties, or as demo reel for FUI work, but I couldn't even bother waiting for the intro animation to finish. Do not want.
Nice work. It's a little too heavy (not snappy enough) for my personal taste, but I like the concept and the site is overall impressive. Have you thought about making a desktop or mobile app? Might make it more responsive.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 101 ms ] threadTo get going, head to spase.io on desktop, make an account (with your handle of choice) then you're good to go.
Desktop is where you can create, read, delete events. Mobile is read only (for now).
My name is Sahil, and I'm excited to share this v1 of Spase.io with you. It's a 3D planner where time moves forward, instead of in 7-day loop-de-loops, so that when you see stuff in the future, it really looks like the future.
So if you have a project deadline, a birthday party, or a reminder to do laundry, that event will actually register spatially in your mind as in the future.
Spase.io clearly not as powerful as Google Calendar or Todoist but it does hack your brain to focus on the future.
What do you like about this v1, and what do you want to see it become?
- Sahil
For example, if you could have multiple calendars on top of each other (with transparency to view layers below) that would be some actual value.
Right now its just eye candy. I for one dont need eye candy.
Will add to feature list asap.
I'll be sure to respond in < 15min!
Any feedback at this stage will go a long way into improving the product.
http://fsv.sourceforge.net/
(High processor usage with both browsers, BTW, not just Safari.)
But on desktop you could make an account, create events, and then read events on your phone!
It revert to the /_phone
The actual functionality of this tool itself confuses me. Why would I ever want to visualize my schedule in this manner and with this kind of a UI? When I go to make a new appointment of visualize my week/month/year/life I have never yearned for a UX that looked anything like this. Furthermore, dragging to whatever I want to see (ala google maps) potentially way far in the future would make me pull my hair out. I don't really understand how it solves anything around this problem space. I dunno maybe I just don't get it. Regardless my hats off to the people who made this and I wish them good luck.
I found that with my previous calendar, a lot of attention was lost to the past.
Any thoughts about the "Grid" mode, and "Shift" which might speed up navigation?
Sahil sahil@spase.io
No way I would ever use this. But I have to admit that it is a nice demo and certainly a good portfolio project.
I'd suggest making it a little more clear which day is selected and a lot more clear which item is selected (plus editable text/color/date).
Also, is there a way to make my calendar private? Public-by-default doesn't seem wise.
Would love a tech write up :)
Super Medium? https://www.supermedium.com/
Btw the Supermedium guys are great. I think they worked on A-Frame, which was really key to making this.
This kind of visual navigation would help user to define their own physical nested shapes like House, Rooms, Desks, Folders Files etc. This eliminates the weak points of dumb nested folders. This also helps in real physical world in putting personal items somewhere in the house, because in computer world you can "search"!
It would be interesting to see urban visual to store items in weird hierarchy such as year > month > date > items.
Good stuff
Oh, and MS Bob. Not really 3D, but maybe a bit closer to the house/room/desk analogy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
If you like the time-distance mapping idea, this 1D calendar might be worth trying: http://www.oneviewcalendar.com/ (i'm not affiliated in any way, just used it for a while). Some old threads on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=oneviewcalendar.com