My Personal Trackers
You may have read my previous post about my need for a specialized ‘accountability and reflection’ morning tracking system, well, as I used it I realized I really needed a follow up evening tracker. By the way – I have come to loathe the name tracker but I cannot think of anything better… lol.
The reason for the personal tracker is to feel less like this:
And more like this:
How it works:
Well – as I started writing this I realized it stopped working – lol. But theoretically it is meant to help me plan (or commit) to certain activities for the day. First I created the Morning Tracker send and fetch system but then I realized I would ‘commit’ to certain activities and do exactly the opposite (explains a lot about my MO 🤔🤭 lately). Thus, I decided to create the Evening Tracker and Combined fetch system so I could have a snap shot of ‘what I planned’ and ‘what I actually did’ for several days looking backward. Just the reflective action of inputting the information has already added a layer of self-accountability to my day. However, it will be nice when I get the fetch functions (review pages) to work correctly!
NOTE: this was all inspired by the work I did creating Time Management Leadership Toolkits for T-Mobile.
After creating these xAPI, html/css/javascript pages…
- Morning Tracker
- Morning Tracker 21 day review page
- Evening Tracker and,
- Combined Day Tracker 21day review page
…I decided I should share. At first I thought to just share the code publicly here and then it dawned on me, I’d finally created code (with the help of Claude.ai) for a GitHub repository!
Apparently I’ve been on GitHub since I joining the xAPI Learning Cohort back in 2019 but I’ve never used it! So this definitely ups my cool kid cred. That is once I get it to work!!
What I learned?
🗣️While you do not need to be a coding expert it sure helps to know enough to ‘troubleshoot’. My html/css is pretty solid but my data exchange/javascript brain is still learning. All and all this harkens back to the first rule of learning – you must know the ‘language’ and/or vocabulary before you can even start to comprehend any type of education you are starting. Hence why HigherEd invented 101 courses.
🦮 You are the guide on the side! Especially with ChatGPT! Claude timed out on me so I tried to continue a debugging project with ChatGPT and man, how over complicated can you get. First off – yes – the code I was using was not highly secure. However, for all intents and purposes, whether or not I had a good morning or bad morning does not qualify as ‘highly classified’. That being said – I got an education on creating a proxy. Conclusion (for a novice like me): Coding with Claude 👍, coding with ChatGPT👎. 😉
🔬 If you are into the learning aspect – creating a project like this is a great way to both test your knowledge bank and your ability to work with genAI platforms. I was pretty impressed with how easy it was for me to troubleshoot the html/css. It also became clear that I possess enough knowledge ‘hooks’ with javascript that I could start to figure out what was working and what was failing enough to discuss that with Claude well enough. With ChatGPT it was more difficult as the latter seemed to assume I hirer level of working knowledge of the code than I actually have and so the instructions were too complicate for me.
I may add to this later but that is enough for now. More to come when I actually debug this completely! lol.
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