The keyboard-first calendar to get organized quickly
Compass is a simple, keyboard-first calendar that helps you manage your time. It's built around vim-style shortcuts that make scheduling feel like a fun game of Tetris. If you live at the keyboard and in your calendar, Compass will make your life easier. Although Compass is built around speed, sometimes the most productive thing to do is nothing. That's why we also have a "life" view, which shows your life as a grid of dots. This visual will help you filter out non-essentials.
Hey PH, I started working on Compass Calendar in 2021 after quitting my job and squandering my time on silly things. I wanted an app that'd give me some needed structure. But my first iteration had too much bloat: notes, tasks, tags, events. It was trying to be an "everything app" like Notion, but it wasn't doing any job well.
I needed to simplify, so I decided to focus on two goals: 1) speed 2) judgement
A calendar with speedy UX puts you back in control, because adjusting things as life changes is no longer daunting. That's where the keyboard-first approach comes from.
Deciding what to work on in the first place is the judgement part. That's why I added the "life" view, which shows your life as a grid of weeks. Seeing your whole existence on one screen really puts things into perspective. It's still you who decides what to do with your time (no AI here), Compass just gives you a unique way to visualize it.
It took longer than expected, but I'm finally proud of it, especially its simplicity.
Excited to hear what y'all think.
About Compass Calendar on Product Hunt
“The keyboard-first calendar to get organized quickly”
Compass Calendar launched on Product Hunt on August 14th, 2026 and earned 80 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #17 on the daily leaderboard. Compass is a simple, keyboard-first calendar that helps you manage your time. It's built around vim-style shortcuts that make scheduling feel like a fun game of Tetris. If you live at the keyboard and in your calendar, Compass will make your life easier. Although Compass is built around speed, sometimes the most productive thing to do is nothing. That's why we also have a "life" view, which shows your life as a grid of dots. This visual will help you filter out non-essentials.
On the analytics side, Compass Calendar competes within Productivity, Task Management, Calendar and GitHub — topics that collectively have 816k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Compass Calendar performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Compass Calendar?
Compass Calendar was hunted by Tyler Dane. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Tyler Dane
Hey PH, I started working on Compass Calendar in 2021 after quitting my job and squandering my time on silly things. I wanted an app that'd give me some needed structure. But my first iteration had too much bloat: notes, tasks, tags, events. It was trying to be an "everything app" like Notion, but it wasn't doing any job well.
I needed to simplify, so I decided to focus on two goals:
1) speed
2) judgement
A calendar with speedy UX puts you back in control, because adjusting things as life changes is no longer daunting. That's where the keyboard-first approach comes from.
Deciding what to work on in the first place is the judgement part. That's why I added the "life" view, which shows your life as a grid of weeks. Seeing your whole existence on one screen really puts things into perspective. It's still you who decides what to do with your time (no AI here), Compass just gives you a unique way to visualize it.
It took longer than expected, but I'm finally proud of it, especially its simplicity.
Excited to hear what y'all think.