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https://www.bicycl.com

Bicycl is a calendar for your life's work. Record what you learn and accomplish each day (or week, month, etc). Organize these micronotes into stories of progress over time. See lots of cool data come to life.

Screenshots coming. I'm testing things out right now in beta, but if you want to give it a twirl, I can send out a few invitations to first comers.

A couple notes: As someone who's struggled with depression, I built this because I found at the end of a day, my mind was putting very little stock in what I had actually accomplished. Fixating on futures constantly would degrade my self-confidence. It's harder to ignore your progress when it's all right there in front of you.

I still journal by hand and use Evernote daily. But found I also wanted somewhere to put my "nuggets", epiphanies, things I learn, etc.




As someone who's struggling to not fall into depression, I think this will do wonders for me. I've come to believe that the trigger-activity-rewards cycle[1] is the best for productivity and improving my focus.

This product might come in handy in the "rewards" phase of that cycle. PS: Requested and invite through your website. [1]: http://www.ted.com/talks/judson_brewer_a_simple_way_to_break...


A tip for that, similar to the service:

Create a file, where each day you enter a list of positive things that occurred or that you did that day. Can be really anything like "got out of bed again :)", "didn't argue with my brother", "cleaned the dishes", "made a plan to get better".

I did it for about half a year, it does wonders for your self-efficacy.


Wow, thanks everyone for signing up. I was planning on sending out a few invites by hand... Yeah, so now I'm in the middle of writing up a script.

I'll send out the first batch of invitations here in a little.


Me too, thanks!


I would love an invite...I already asked for this a few days ago on HN and Reddit, post it there :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11166892

https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/47ct2k/how_do...


I'm curious when you say "publish to the web", do you have a specific output/platform in mind?

One key difference with Bicycl from those other tools is that it's based on micronotes (think tweeting vs blogging). This is intentional. I use Evernote to go into detail about my work. But that makes serendipitous discovery more difficult, when the jewel of your content is buried...

Also, this allows you to focus on just what's important. As any good procrastinator know how easy it is to sidetrack yourself in details. Of course, sometimes that's wonderful and creative. But there are lots of tools out there already for that.


By "publishing to the web" I mean an easy and automated way to show the world what you have accomplished, so for instance if you are getting hired, one can look at your page and have a feeling of your work process, what you care about, what you have accomplished, what kind of experiments have you done...

I agree that micro notes are the way to start this, but give the users ways to be able to extend these notes in oder to be able to further document their work or whatever they have accomplished.


Cool, thanks for the response. For now, want to make sure Bicycl is useful and empowering on an individual level.

Then, those ideas would certainly seem like a natural progression...


This feels like it would tie in extremely well with exist.io for reporting and trends analysis.


I'd love an invitation, gonna request an invite on your website to try out your product.


I would love an invitation too ! I just requested one through the website as well.


Sounds interesting, requested an invite


Love the design of the landing page.


I'd love an invitation too.


Invite would be great :)




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