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Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by Groxx »

corry wrote: post #38
kyro wrote: post #27

I got really excited after reading the submission title because I thought someone had finally created a service I've wanted for a while. This is great, but you should take it further! Here's the idea: I've wanted a personal dashboard to track everything in my life at a quick glance, like weight/health metrics, financials, to-do, schedule, emails, twitter replies, etc; something that'll give me a quick and comprehensi…

Have you checked out http://daytum.com/ ? Simple tracking for lots different things.

I like the idea, but the app hasn't been updated in a year and a half (see also their "what's new" section - not a good sign for system health), and there are a lot of gaps in what I'd end up using such a site for. Would you happen to know any alternatives? They've always been hard to google for, in my experience :|

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by xyzzyb »

The resume should be a simple listing of your claimed skills and work history.

To really stand out write a cover letter that sells what you've done and makes the case for your benefit to the company.

If you want to go further, create a personal website and reference it from your resume/cover letter.

e.g. mine is http://stephenballnc.com

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by xyzzyb »

kyro wrote: post #27

I got really excited after reading the submission title because I thought someone had finally created a service I've wanted for a while. This is great, but you should take it further! Here's the idea: I've wanted a personal dashboard to track everything in my life at a quick glance, like weight/health metrics, financials, to-do, schedule, emails, twitter replies, etc; something that'll give me a quick and comprehensi…

Check out your.flowingdata: http://your.flowingdata.com/

It allows you to record and create beautiful charts from any arbitrary data you want to send it. It gets the data by you tweeting direct messages to it, so it's really easy to do from just about any device.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by TillE »

kyro wrote: post #42
krobertson wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds depressing... who you are summarized down to a status dashboard. I think the OP's idea is great and can go further. The distinction is between what I am doing/need to do and who I am.

What? I'm talking about glancing at a dashboard in the morning and being able to tell how much money I should or shouldn't be spending, whether I'm on track to hitting a weight goal and be reminded to watch what I eat, if my afternoon is free to hang with friends, if there are any events of interest in the area, if I've got any important to-do's, etc, etc. The point is it's all updated in real-time. We've got the ser…

Yeah, that sounds amazing. You'd have to integrate with a lot of services that don't necessarily expose APIs, though. Well come to think of it, most of them do.

Seriously, this is one of the most interesting software ideas I've heard in a long time, and I don't usually get excited about productivity software. Do it.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by mattwdelong »

1123581321 wrote: post #67
mattwdelong wrote: post #5

This is pretty neat, but it's not something I would enter my CC details for and pay for each month. I would however drop a one time ~$25 fee and self host it on my own server, and maybe use it. At least this way, I will see it running on my server and periodically update it. I'm just one person of many, but when I see neat little apps like this I would always much rather pay for it outright than pay for it each month…

For hosted, an annual fee is appropriate here. A $25 annual fee is quite similar to a one-time fee of $25 because once it is paid, there is nothing to do but use it for an entire year. After a year, it's very obvious whether the app is worth another $25 or not. Either way the developer's compensation is nearly the same assuming many accounts share the low cost of the servers.

There is a mental line between annual and "once and forever" type purchases. I think it comes down to the thought of getting more value and the fact that you own it..it's yours. Secondly, what if I purchase an annual subscription and forget about it the next year? I just paid another $25 for an app I stopped using over 10 months ago. I don't like that hassel of having to remember what my card is attached to and what random fees are going to come out each month, and that's why I don't like subscribing to anything.

I would rather drive a shitty used car at a one time $5k purchase price over a brand new car at $300/month. For the same reason, I also don't get into cell phone contracts and cable subscriptions. I don't know what subset of the population is like me, but I think it would surprise you.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by Cederfjard »

Groxx wrote: post #71
corry wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you checked out http://daytum.com/ ? Simple tracking for lots different things.

I like the idea, but the app hasn't been updated in a year and a half (see also their "what's new" section - not a good sign for system health), and there are a lot of gaps in what I'd end up using such a site for. Would you happen to know any alternatives? They've always been hard to google for, in my experience :|

How about https://www.lucidtracker.com/? I believe it was on here some time ago.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by natep »

mattwdelong wrote: post #5

This is pretty neat, but it's not something I would enter my CC details for and pay for each month. I would however drop a one time ~$25 fee and self host it on my own server, and maybe use it. At least this way, I will see it running on my server and periodically update it. I'm just one person of many, but when I see neat little apps like this I would always much rather pay for it outright than pay for it each month…

Especially for something like this. I might not need this to land a job for years, but when I do, I'll want to know that all the work I put into adding content to this won't have been wasted (i.e. service disappears for any number of reasons, OP is already 98% busy :/).

That's not so say that a hosted, subscription service wouldn't be useful for some, but self-hosing would allow users to solve problems for themselves that would otherwise be feature requests, and hard to design well for everyone.

I know OP doesn't want to be another LinkedIn, but there's no reason why he or someone else couldn't create an opt-in browsable database of these for better discoverability. How awesome would it be if you could click a link next to your hackathon entry and see the status page of other attendees?

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by tptacek »

incision wrote: post #20
patio11 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be wonderful to be able to provide a recruiter or similar with a link to a not necessarily public status chart to demonstrate myself. That is terribly against your interests, because your future employers do not burn with the need for more status charts. The contents of your existing work are not all that relevant to them. The results are much more interesting. How you are going to apply those experiences to…

I agree with essentially everything you're saying here, but I don't see how something like this couldn't be useful to show work behind my results progressed. Or at least easier to consume than a traditional resume or modern blog-as-resume for that purpose. I'm thinking of it as a simple tool for providing context and references to what I've done. The first step in making those claims of results credible. I'm not talk…

Why is your work relevant if you've created the results?

The mentality that carefully-documented work is a substitute for results is the bane of almost all professional managers. It's crazymaking when you set out to achieve a result and receive instead a detailed log of steps that failed to produce it. That happens often enough that I might not want to signal that particular "survival skill" to a prospective manager.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Post by qdot76367 »

kyro wrote: post #27

I got really excited after reading the submission title because I thought someone had finally created a service I've wanted for a while. This is great, but you should take it further! Here's the idea: I've wanted a personal dashboard to track everything in my life at a quick glance, like weight/health metrics, financials, to-do, schedule, emails, twitter replies, etc; something that'll give me a quick and comprehensi…

If you're already on emacs and org-mode, there's the memacs project:

https://github.com/novoid/Memacs

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