Core Philosphy
Most planning tools are built around tasks, meetings, and deadlines. YearGrid is built around something deeper: the human need to see time clearly both in the longterm and short term.
Question | Answer |
|---|---|
What problem are you really solving? | Not “calendar UX,” but disconnection from time. |
What is your philosophical stance on time? | Time is finite, visual, emotional, seasonal, strategic. |
Why does seeing the year matter? | Because humans make better choices when time has shape. |
What is YearGrid? | A visual year-planning interface that lets you see, mark, and shape an entire year at once. |
Who is it for? | Founders, creators, teachers, athletes, project leaders, self-improvers, anyone living by arcs instead of isolated tasks. |
What does it replace or complement? | Calendars, planners, Notion boards, whiteboards, spreadsheets, yearly reviews. |
What is the simplest user action? | Look at the year, select dates, mark phases, track arcs, understand where you are. |
The Problem With Normal Calendars
Question | Answer |
|---|---|
Why are monthly calendars insufficient? | They fragment the year into disconnected pages. |
Why do task apps fail here? | They focus on completion, not perspective. |
Why do people lose track of the year? | Time is usually experienced as a stream, not as a landscape. |
What does this cost people? | Poor pacing, forgotten goals, reactive living, missed seasons, burnout. |
The modern calendar is optimized for appointments. YearGrid is optimized for orientation and strategy.
YearGrid.io as a SaaS App
YearGrid is a Software as a Service (SaaS) style program, meaning its available to anyone with an internet connection via the website YearGrid.io, updates automatically, has no downloads, and remembers your data by letting you log in via a familiar account to you (like your Gmail, Outlook, or work email.) Like most SaaS software, its revenue model is a simple cancel-anytime subscription which at this time is $9.99 per month, or $95 for the year (20% discount from monthly).
Most planning tools are built around tasks, meetings, and deadlines. YearGrid is built around something deeper: the human need to see time clearly.
The core insight: Time as Landscape
You ever see things like a War Map or War Table (Game of Thrones has many scenes featuring these) that generals use to plan a battle? It's a visual way of looking at the battlefield and surrounding landscape, the resources available, the units, etc. Well that in a way is what YearGrid attempts to do - just with your time. With your year, and the years behind it. Can through software, we create a visual landscape where you can see the distances and size of blocks of time, down to the level of the individual day, so that you can plan and manage your preparation as effectively as possible.
Considerations
ICS Files
An ICS file (file extension .ics) is a universal calendar file format used to store and share calendar events. It contains critical event details like the title, start/end times, location, description, and time zone.
https://fileinfo.com/extension/ics
LLM TXT
https://www.framer.com/marketplace/plugins/llm-text-generator/
https://llmstxt.org/
SEO
Filtering
We've added the ability to filter your collection lists in the CMS. This allows you to keep your content in a single collection, yet customize how that collection is presented on each of your web pages. For example, if you're creating docs for your app, you might want to filter articles per topic on your homepage. Or when creating a blog, you might want to filter your blog posts per category.