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Focus Book — A 13 week habit and priority tracking notebook
Focus Book combines habit tracking, a to-do list of your weekly priorities and brief reflection to help you get stuff done. Each pocket-sized notebook in a 2-pack covers 13 weeks and is printed in the U.S. on 100% recycled paper.
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lunamoth
Where is the web version?
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@hellotylerhill Thanks Tyler! We made it flexible enough that you can use the different UI-like elements to track progress in different ways.
@jeffrey_wyman Thanks Jeffrey! That would be a good fit 🙂. Though I use Todoist to track all of my projects and tasks and find Focus Book is a great tool alongside it.
Eric did a great job on these as a way to track habits in an easy, tangible way that matches a lot of mental models but also allows for flexibility on doing things how you'd like. His work is always beautiful and high quality.
This is beautiful! Eric what's the core human insight that drove you to work on this?
@rishigb Thank you Rishi! It was a few things... one, writing things down is an effective way to actually focus on them vs. just adding yet another task to an app (even if you use an app on top of the notebook). Second, having a limitation of space forces focus on what's most important.
Third, a combination of the 3 components of Focus Book is a framework for productivity, and a flexible one. Habits create good routines, priorities are actually tasks that can be worked on once a routine is established, and a little reflection encourages improvement from week-to-week.
We created a new video to show you more about Focus Book for the launch today. I've been using a prototype of the notebook for a few months and it's really helping to create habits and remember those key things I normally jot down on paper. Happy to answer any questions!
I created Focus Book to help you get things done in the face of distraction. The design comes from my own experience managing work and life while working from home the last 12 years, and running our design studio for almost 20. The notebook gives you a 3 part framework of habit tracking, a to-do list of priorities and brief reflection while staying flexible so you can adapt it to your workflow. While many of us use some form of to-do app, having those key items on paper, and on your desk, makes sure they won't be forgotten.
See it here: https://uxkits.com/products/focu...
I set out to design Focus Book with 3 goals in mind:
1. Make it useful, while many of us are facing new challenges at home.
2. Support other small businesses by printing locally in the U.S.
3. Make it (extremely) environmentally friendly. Focus Books are offset printed in the U.S.A. on 100% recycled paper with vegetable-based inks on machinery powered with renewable energy.
I also made Focus Book now to help boost our sales for our family business (we're a husband-wife team) during this difficult time... but I hope you'll check it out and it will help you too.
Lovely idea! I’ve found bullet journals to be a bit too much for my needs. I use apps to keep track of smaller day-to-day tasks and this little notebook seems like a good place to keep track of the bigger picture and reflect.
Paying for shipping to the EU and customs would make it too expensive for what it is though. Not your fault, but it’s unfortunate.
@anna_0x Thanks Anna! Yes, this was meant to fit in that sweet spot of “a notebook but not a journal”. Sorry to hear about the shipping. Always something we deal with and always researching solutions.
@lecoupa Thanks so much Julien! Let me know if you have any questions when you get it.
@giorgio_g Thanks Giorgio, so glad you like it! I'd love to hear how they work for you over the first few weeks.
Very handy! Recently experienced burnout and this might help organize myself better.
@alissabonisch Hi Alissa! I hope so :) I use it myself, of course, and really helps keep me focused... hence the name!
