The brand new productiveness app Amie began with an uncommon query: What would Google Maps seem like if it was designed to not take you from New York to Boston, however to take you from figuring out nothing about music to enjoying the saxophone?
Whereas this thought train might sound foolish, it’s how Amie’s founder Dennis Müller recognized a niche in current productiveness apps. He noticed loads of calendars, to-do lists, and scheduling packages in the marketplace, however only a few that mixed these features to function a highway map for reaching objectives—like studying the best way to play an instrument. So Müller spent 4 years creating Amie, an all-in-one platform for “designing your life.” As we speak, Amie is launching to the general public with a brand new characteristic that lets Google customers sync their electronic mail account with the app.
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Amie combines a full calendar, to-do record, and electronic mail server. Past these core features, the app additionally hosts distinctive integrations with different companies like Notion, Zoom, and Spotify.
“You may look again and see precisely what you had been listening to at 9 a.m. [on any given day],” Müller says. “Although that was extra for the giggles, individuals actually resonated with it, and it’s change into one of many favourite options that we’ve ever executed.”
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Following the success of the Spotify integration, Amie debuted a brand new collaboration with Apple Well being that lets Apple Watch wearers preserve a every day diary of their sleep habits and train routine, and even monitor how their coronary heart price fluctuates all through the day (and through anxious conferences). Regardless of the app’s ever-expanding catalog of options, Müller says considered one of his group’s high priorities is sustaining a easy, pleasant design. Every particular person can personalize their expertise on Amie by maximizing the options that they want probably the most. If a consumer simply needs to see their calendar, for instance, they’ll merely collapse the to-do record and electronic mail features. In response to Müller, Amie’s customizable design is the results of numerous rounds of real-world testing and suggestions from customers.
“Our technique boils right down to one thing quite simple, which is that, most frequently, we’ve redone every little thing 10 instances with little to no respect for deadlines,” Müller says. “We all know that nothing we do will succeed on the primary attempt.”
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Constantly constructing out Amie’s choices is an ongoing technique of imagining “every little thing {that a} calendar could possibly be” for Müller. His group is at present engaged on plenty of add-on prototypes, together with instruments that will let customers draw straight on their calendars, habit-tracking software program for enterprise professionals, and new integrations. And whereas Müller acknowledges that designing your life on a calendar doesn’t at all times imply your concepts will come to fruition, he does imagine that there’s energy in making a plan.
“Simply since you put in a run tomorrow doesn’t imply that you’ll at all times do it—that’s not how the world works,” Müller says. “But when it will increase the percentages by 20 %, it’s fairly vital to me.”
