Events: use important moments to feel, think and plan ahead
Mark the moments that matter, a launch, a trip, a big meeting, and give each one a page to prepare, think, connect and follow through. A milestone planner that grows out of your notes.
What you can do with Events
- Prepare, think, connect, complete. Every event page has four sections, and one click starts what you need for each: a prep task or checklist, a note or mind map, or a debrief note and follow-up task once it's over.
- Born from your memories. Select a line in a note, or right-click a mind map node, and make it an event. The event keeps a link back to where it came from.
- Bring in what's already booked. Turn upcoming events from a subscribed calendar into Xale events you can build around.
- Worth knowing: Events are part of Xale Pro. Time blocks, quick blocks and activities on your day stay free.
Why I wanted a milestone planner that starts from my notes
The dates that matter most to me, a launch, a trip, a family milestone, a big meeting, aren't just rectangles at 3pm. They're a reason to think, plan and act. Before one, there's preparing to do; after it, there are follow-ups and things worth remembering.
And they usually start somewhere else: a line in my notes, a branch of a mind map, an item on a list. I wanted each event to have its own page, so the thinking around it has somewhere to live.
Rachit, founder of Xale
The ideas behind Events
Make the moments that matter visible
A few moments shape a year far more than the hundreds of ordinary days around them.
- Worth reading: Chip Heath and Dan Heath, The Power of Moments (2017). Defining moments don't just happen; they can be noticed, prepared for and made to count.
- The usual way: a milestone that's just one more entry on a busy calendar.
- In this release: each event gets its own page and a countdown, so it stands out from the everyday.
Every event has a before and an after
The preparation and the follow-through are where most of the value is.
- Worth reading: Daniel H. Pink, When (2018). Beginnings, midpoints and endings each change how people act; paying attention to them helps you use them.
- The usual way: preparing in your head the night before, and follow-ups that never leave the meeting room.
- In this release: Prepare before, Complete after, both one click from the event.
Further reading
- Peter M. Gollwitzer, "Implementation intentions: Strong effects of simple plans", American Psychologist (1999). Deciding when and where you'll act makes you much more likely to act. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.54.7.493
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