Show HN: Flow Dashboard – open-source habit tracker and personal analytics app • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Flow Dashboard – open-source habit tracker and personal analytics app

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Post by onejgordon » Sun, May 07, 2017, 5:59 PM UTC

hokvel wrote: post #35

Very interesting. My main concern is that such systems should suit their owners very well. But, of course, everyone has their own preferences regarding task management, time tracking, app ecosystems, usage patterns etc. Consequently, it is very hard to make a single open source project that fits everyone. Me and my friend were working on a very similar project for the last 10 months, and we still hesitate to publish…

Your project sounds very interesting, and feature packed. Will it be open source, commercial, both? Thanks for sharing your insights on the agent interface, I've found that I (unexpectedly) use the messenger bot frequently for simple 'task completed' functionality and others.

Is there anything public on the web about your project at this point?

Re: Show HN: Flow Dashboard – open-source habit tracker and personal analytics app

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Post by nitemice » Mon, May 08, 2017, 6:14 AM UTC

onejgordon wrote: post #22

kfrzcode wrote: post #20

I like the looks of this, can I import all of my current time data somehow? I totally want to dig into the code when I have more time this summer because I've been wanting this exact tool. Thanks for posting this!

Thanks for taking a look! What kind of time data do you want to import?

Not OP, but I have a lot of tasks in Google Tasks, and goals & journaling etc. in Google Calendars. Being able to import, or (even better) sync with these would be a real winner for me.

Re: Show HN: Flow Dashboard – open-source habit tracker and personal analytics app

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Post by onejgordon » Mon, May 08, 2017, 7:27 AM UTC

nitemice wrote: post #42

onejgordon wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for taking a look! What kind of time data do you want to import?

Not OP, but I have a lot of tasks in Google Tasks, and goals & journaling etc. in Google Calendars. Being able to import, or (even better) sync with these would be a real winner for me.

I fully agree, and have the same need, in fact as I use gCal/goals frequently (which conveniently integrate with gFit), and end up having to double-mark currently.

It seems like Google's APIs for tasks/keep/goals, etc are in flux right now, which is not ideal, but I will be looking into an integration to remove that redundancy.

Re: Show HN: Flow Dashboard – open-source habit tracker and personal analytics app

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Post by hokvel » Mon, May 08, 2017, 9:21 AM UTC

onejgordon wrote: post #41

hokvel wrote: post #35

Very interesting. My main concern is that such systems should suit their owners very well. But, of course, everyone has their own preferences regarding task management, time tracking, app ecosystems, usage patterns etc. Consequently, it is very hard to make a single open source project that fits everyone. Me and my friend were working on a very similar project for the last 10 months, and we still hesitate to publish…

Your project sounds very interesting, and feature packed. Will it be open source, commercial, both? Thanks for sharing your insights on the agent interface, I've found that I (unexpectedly) use the messenger bot frequently for simple 'task completed' functionality and others. Is there anything public on the web about your project at this point?

It was started as a pet project with no plans regarding its future. As it turned out, recent hype around AI, personal assistants, privacy and wearables created some interest around such type of projects. It is definitely going to be OSS, if we decide to publish it. I see no other way to make it transparent and secure, also people who are ready to provide full access to their accounts and location to third party service aren't target audience =)