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Re: Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles

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Post by pan69 »

jmstfv wrote: post #7
aplc0r wrote: post #6

It is a good idea, but the layout hurts my eyes due to the Hermann grid illusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_illusion

It wasn't intentional! I experimented with different colors, but seems like all of them produce this illusion :/ I'll see what I can do.

Reduce the contrast, i.e. make the black less black.

Re: Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles

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Post by davchana »

leobg wrote: post #14
erenst wrote: post #8

I see that I'm not the only one inspired by this blog post [1]. I did a similar visualization with blocks to display my working hours [2]. [1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/10/100-blocks-day.html [2] https://github.com/am-on/work-timer

I did the same thing when my grandfather died: A grid with each square representing a week of his life, and each row representing one year. Then, we mapped as many events from his life as possible.

I am doing an excel sheet, 52 boxes per row, one row per year. Inspired by waitbutwhy article.

Re: Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles

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Post by bombcar »

jzer0cool wrote: post #20
setr wrote: post #2

I am grossly offended by this .grid-item { ... height: 4.5rem; width: 4.5rem; } That's a square. Fine, a square is a rectangle. But that's a square. There's no media queries to eliminate the square. There's no JS that affects the square-ness. It's all squares. 144 squares.

Can someone clarify?

It’s tongue in cheek - the original site had squares not the advertised “rectangles” - even though a square is a type of rectangle most people consider rectangles to be the non-squares.

Re: Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles

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Post by pmarreck »

And yet the vast majority of these rectangles will be spent JUST on maintaining you so you can spend a minority of them on either work or things you actually want to do.

Sleep, eat, exercise, shower, dress, undress, shop, drive (often in traffic), errands, poop, pee, fap (or sex if you are so positioned), then theoretically get a few hours of work done (hopefully productive and fulfilling but often filled with meetings and other drudgery), then babytime if you have one, and THEN there's maybe 1 row of rectangles left for you to spend how you actually please!

Re: Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles

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Post by randyrand »

jmstfv wrote: post #7
aplc0r wrote: post #6

It is a good idea, but the layout hurts my eyes due to the Hermann grid illusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_illusion

It wasn't intentional! I experimented with different colors, but seems like all of them produce this illusion :/ I'll see what I can do.

Or add the circles intentionally? At least they wont pop in and out then.

Re: Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles

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Post by lkbm »

Those perspective items don't really provide perspective. I don't hate them, but a Jupiter day means nothing to me. The "average workday" is good and meaningful.

Some thoughts on good "perspective" items:

* Average runtime of a film

* Average commuting time (US, presumably)

* 15-minute standup

Re: Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles

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Post by rahidz »

erenst wrote: post #8

I see that I'm not the only one inspired by this blog post [1]. I did a similar visualization with blocks to display my working hours [2]. [1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/10/100-blocks-day.html [2] https://github.com/am-on/work-timer

Reminded me of https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html from the same website. One of the few things on the Internet that changed my entire outlook on life.
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