Comment by hobo_mark
2 years ago
Ha, I just built something similar for myself over the winter holidays. It's just a Google Chat bot duct taped to Google Calendar with a bit of Apps Script, but seeing how I spend my days visually has been extremely motivating in adjusting my routine and habits. Best of luck to you.
This sounds pretty interesting to me, what exactly is the flow like?
I thought about making a google chat (or some other chat) bot message me every few hours and basically ask what I'm doing. That combined with some fancy logic like detecting when I'm not home/sleep/etc, could probably come up with a good personal timeline.
When you start doing something, you type `/do something`, when you are done, you type `/done` followed by an optional comment about what you did. Things are added to different calendars depending on what `something` is. I already have a separate database with sleep information, I am going to export it into the same google calendars when I get the chance.
Typing the command (or clicking a shortcut) are a bit of extra work, but I have been logging my working hours for over half a decade already and it's not a huge change to log everything else. It also means being mindful of what you are supposed to be doing at any given time which I find to be useful in practice.