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Re: Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles

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Post by browningstreet »

pmarreck wrote: post #24

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 meetin…

It's why I follow the "wake up early, work-out, get something done" organizing principle for my day. My day is usually in pretty good shape by 9am, even if nothing else happens.

Re: Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles

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Post by smoe »

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.

Fiddled around with it a bit and if you reduce the spacing between the boxes to a few pixels the illusion goes away for me or is barely noticeable. But, the aesthetics of the whole thing are quite different then.

Re: Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles

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Post by netsharc »

davchana wrote: post #22
leobg wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Do you find some years need 53 boxes?

If you're born April 1, 52 weeks after your birth would be March 31, and after 52 more weeks it would be March 30 (before considering leap years).

I guess it can stay 52 boxes, and the last box has a day extra (or two, on leap years).

Re: Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles

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Post by davchana »

netsharc wrote: post #36
davchana wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Do you find some years need 53 boxes? If you're born April 1, 52 weeks after your birth would be March 31, and after 52 more weeks it would be March 30 (before considering leap years). I guess it can stay 52 boxes, and the last box has a day extra (or two, on leap years).

Oh no, I don't go in that details, simply, every month, the weeks start on 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd.

Only Jan, Jun, July, Dec gets another week, 5th one, on 27th.

So all months have 4 columns, labeled 1,8,15,22. Jan, Jun, Jul, Dec have 5 columns.

Whole sheet is a fillable grid of 52 columns and 90 rows.

A pre column list the year like 2002, 2003, 2004 etc. Next pre column list my age like 0,1,2,3 till 90. Then above explained grid. Then again, first two pre columns copied.

Each cell has light grey border. Border darkens to black between months columns. Border also darkens at every decade row.

If an event (like travel) happens on certain date (like 13th), it simply fills the whole week.

I assume that in overall big picture of life, a rounding off of week will not matter much.

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