A Simplish Life: Our Founding Philosophy
Simplish was founded with a clear purpose: To contribute to the happiness and fulfillment of humankind by creating beautiful and inspiring tools to help organize how we communicate.
Almost everyone we talk to these days is pretty stressed out. Our friends, family, and co-workers are constantly talking about how busy things are, how they are having trouble sleeping, and how they feel overwhelmed. And yet somehow we all make the time to zone out on instagram or twitter which just distracts us more from what we need to do.
We wanted a way to bring simplicity, clarity and meaningful collaboration back into our noisy daily lives. We wanted to create a platform to help each other be happier and help each other do more of what we love.
So we created Simplish, a social productivity to do mobile app, to leverage our desire for social connectivity as a means to actually accomplish more. Using Simplish you create your TEAM or GROUP first — invite your best friend, your co-workers, your husband, your sister and then collect and organize all of the tasks you need to complete and easily assign them to the members of your team. We designed it with color psychology in mind to boost your mood (so yes, it’s colorful) AND just for you because we know how much you love daily planners it has a daily planner that helps organize your day.
But we also wanted a daily reminder that productivity and organization are not goal unto themselves. Their purpose is to clear time in your day so that you can spend it on yourself, your peace of mind, and having fun. So we incorporated inspiring quotes and words of wisdom to remind us.
Simplish can help you finish what you need to get done faster so you can make more time for fun. Take a tango class. Plan a trip to Thailand. Figure out the best preschools for your kid. Leverage the collective knowledge in your groups.
So we wanted to do a few things well:
Create a simple and easy to use productivity tool: We did not want to spend any valuable time learning an entirely new and complex system to help manage our already busy days. The problem with most to do lists and project managers (and trust us we know there are a lot out there) is that they primarily aim to capture and hyper organize a zillion tasks. But they aren’t very inspiring to look at. The minute after you excitedly upload all your tasks onto them, you don’t even want to check them because they are just a data dump. Complex tech solutions and processes can take away from creativity and flow. We didn’t want bulky and tech-y looking solutions. What we really needed was a way to easily organize and collect all of our tasks AND a way to prioritize what needs to be done on a daily basis. So we made something that we would want to use. A simple and beautiful group task and research tool.
Create a Community: Accomplishing our goals does not happen in a vacuum. We realized that most times, the things we need to get done are part of a larger context or team. Whether that team is a family, an author and their publishing and editing team, a small business owner and their employees or a digital nomad and their remote marketing team — all micro-teams as we like to call them — there aren’t many tools specifically designed with our needs in mind. By allowing for easier collaboration with the most important people in your life, we also wanted to create a community of individuals who are committed to steady progress while maintaining their peace of mind. This is why we created this publication, a space for digital nomads, creatives, small business owners, and families to come together to be inspired to live a simpler and calmer life. We wanted to create something that represents the creativity and passion in our community.
Build a Daily Positive Habit: Sure, we all have a lot to do, but the bottom line is that there are only so many hours in a day to get things done. So our daily planner helps you prioritize and execute- and repeat those important steps-at the beginning of each day. We realized that accomplishing more is really about cultivating good habits, which is ultimately about mood and inspiration. We are inspired by both peaceful and vibrant landscapes so we designed Simplish to remind us of the simple joy of watching a sunset . We also incorporated motivational quotes so that you start your day with a peaceful mindset.
Minimize the Stress In Our Life. At the end of the day, we want to maximize the fun. And we don’t say that lightly. Life will throw a bunch of crap at us all and we will have lots of ups and downs. The things that will help us through it are the experiences, trips, projects and passions that fulfill our soul. So we hope this will help all of us to have more of these.
We encourage you to follow this publication while we help create a community and space for all of us creatives, digital nomads, small business owners, and families to inspire us to simplify our lives and accomplish more of what we want with our days. We know life is complicated so let us help you make it a little simpler…simplish if you will.