Show HN: Progress Dashboard – A dashboard to stay productive with progress bars
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Re: Show HN: Progress Dashboard – A dashboard to stay productive with progress bars
#2Hi HN
Creator of Progress Dashboard here. I've been working on Progress Dashboard for almost a year now. This is a simple chrome extension to replace boring new tab with a useful dashboard. With Progress Dashboard you can access progress bars for year, month, week, day and hour. You can also create one for specific tasks with start and end time. You can select a background from image, gradient or Trianglify. Progress Dashboard comes with a Distraction Free Mode to stay productive. This mode is very minimal and it's dark mode
Re: Show HN: Progress Dashboard – A dashboard to stay productive with progress bars
#3I tried a new tab extension that lets you create to do lists and got lazy with it after a few days. Somehow these tools are not very helpful to me. I’m curious if anyone uses these things consistently day to day month to month?
Re: Show HN: Progress Dashboard – A dashboard to stay productive with progress bars
#4Some feedback:
You should put an example of a use case for some of the task bars in your website photos. "Task Progress" doesn't really convey any type of value to me. Maybe a specific example like "Gym sessions attended" would help show new users what the app can be used for.
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#5I did try "momentum" as a new tab for a while, but I've always found these kinds of things distracting - when you hit ctrl+T I'm not (and I suspect most are not) looking for inspiration, but I'm looking to find something. Maybe I'm alone in this view?
If anything, I'd be tempted to make a completely blank new tab page - for me that would avoid the normal routine of seeing all my favourite favicons
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#6I tried a new tab extension that lets you create to do lists and got lazy with it after a few days. Somehow these tools are not very helpful to me. I’m curious if anyone uses these things consistently day to day month to month?
I've found that most organizational/motivational tools aren't sticky. I suspect for me it's in part because I just don't care enough about being organized typically and don't lack in motivation as much as I do in free time (4 kids, 2 jobs).
In fact, the only organizational tool that has remained a constant for me has been Trello, and only for specific projects. As an example, when I moved mid-last year, I set up a Trello board and filled it up with everything we needed to get done, Kanban style. This was super helpful because it helped manage a sense of being _completely overwhelmed_ by the volume of work needed.
And that's where I basically draw the line now. I tend to not live in a way where I let myself be overwhelmed by things, and when I need an organizational tool to help cope with the busy times, I know where to find one that works for most workflows I could come up with.
Re: Show HN: Progress Dashboard – A dashboard to stay productive with progress bars
#7I did try "momentum" as a new tab for a while, but I've always found these kinds of things distracting - when you hit ctrl+T I'm not (and I suspect most are not) looking for inspiration, but I'm looking to find something. Maybe I'm alone in this view? If anything, I'd be tempted to make a completely blank new tab page - for me that would avoid the normal routine of seeing all my favourite favicons
I find it hard to believe that tech-savvy people click on something on a new tab page instead of doing Ctrl+T -> first two letters -> enter.
Since there's a whole lot of space to fill in while doing that, it might as well show you a pretty picture and some task or something.
I would consider a completely white page as a waste of screen estate.
Re: Show HN: Progress Dashboard – A dashboard to stay productive with progress bars
#8I did try "momentum" as a new tab for a while, but I've always found these kinds of things distracting - when you hit ctrl+T I'm not (and I suspect most are not) looking for inspiration, but I'm looking to find something. Maybe I'm alone in this view? If anything, I'd be tempted to make a completely blank new tab page - for me that would avoid the normal routine of seeing all my favourite favicons
I find it hard to believe that tech-savvy people click on something on a new tab page instead of doing Ctrl+T -> first two letters -> enter. Since there's a whole lot of space to fill in while doing that, it might as well show you a pretty picture and some task or something. I would consider a completely white page as a waste of screen estate.
Spliting hairs here, but it's not about clicking something, it's about changing what those first 2 letters typed are.
Call me a minimalist (or whatever else you'd like), but "might as well" isn't a good enough reason to add distractions for me.
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#9So... what's this for? I mean, I know what progress bars are for per se but I can't see any mention of a way to tie the meter to something concrete other than time - and we already have clocks and calendars for that. I must be missing something...
Re: Show HN: Progress Dashboard – A dashboard to stay productive with progress bars
#10Some feedback: You should put an example of a use case for some of the task bars in your website photos. "Task Progress" doesn't really convey any type of value to me. Maybe a specific example like "Gym sessions attended" would help show new users what the app can be used for.
Thanks for the feedback! Just updated the site