Second Inquiry: Practicalities

I’ve decided to use a GUI framework called Kivy to make Crampack. It’s a feature-packed Python 3 library that runs on most major operating systems and works on mobile. I’ve already made the suggested example project, and I have a basic grasp on how it works.

There’s a lot of resources available to learn from, but I’ve mostly been looking at the official Kivy documentation, and asking questions about it on the IRC.

I plan to draw up some design bits to outline the look of the application in the near future. These will give me a more concrete idea of Crampack’s final look, and all of the various screens, how they’re organized, and how control flows between them.

Overall, I’ve been spending less time on my inquiry than I’d like to, and I hope to remedy that in the coming days. The design drawings will be finished a day or so from now, and I’ve already got a basic layout to work with, code-wise.

Second Inquiry Details (Also a plan!)

I made a little post a while ago concerning an idea that I had. I want to turn this into my next inquiry project and make the things I outlined in the post a reality, so let’s get started.

First of all, what is this thing, anyway? My goal for this inquiry’s end product is a unique productivity application (another one for the sprawling pile) that runs on phones and computers.
(this is basically a reeeeaaaally rough reference document detailing most of the functionality that I want this thing to have. its implementation will be covered in another post, and the initial Crampack post takes care of the motivation.)

I want you to be able to:

  • utilize task management via cycles
  • add time-based and activity-based milestones for your cycles
  • add cycles quickly, in 1 click/tap/action
  • get notifications when your milestones trigger, or to remind you when to work on something/what to work on
  • look at all your cycles at once in a special screen (like 20+ at a time)

I want cycles to look something like this:

  • each cycle has a start timestamp and an optional end timestamp
  • cycles serve mostly as reminders to work
  • attach milestones to cycles for a sense of achievement
  • arbitrary colour to distinguish them
  • horizontal “timeline” view of all the cycles:

/-----|cycle1
---/------------:cycle2(ongoing)

There should be a (pomodoro) stopwatch to track activity on each cycle.