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Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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post #113

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> What freaking standard is it to write dates as mm.dd? American.

As an American, I personally hate that standard, and usually use YYYY-MM-DD wherever possible, and only revert to MM-DD-YY on documents that require it in that format. I get that MM-DD follows the conventions of speech ("the event is on May 7th"), but it's really ambiguous when written in all numbers.

"The event is on the 7th of May"

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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So why can't your dashboard show different metrics each day? You can just configure the different widgets to show up at different frequencies. Perhaps your 401k widget only shows up the first time you log in each quarter. Your weight tracking widget only shows up Monday morning. Your banking and monthly budgeting widget shows up daily. Your Amazon order shipping widget shows up only when you have an open order. Your…

I already have a page where significant announcements show up at a wide variety of frequencies. It's called "webmail". Or an activity feed. The point of a dashboard is that no navigation is required beyond turning your head and glancing. Dashboards are for things that you want to see by accident, or while waiting for a phone call. A widget that usually isn't there when you turn your head might as well not be on the d…

The main difference in my eyes is that activity feeds and messages can create a backlog. The user experience isn't quite right either--different types of messages still look exactly the same. But different dashboard widgets could have radically different user experiences.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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I think it's a nice idea and I'm really interested to see how you execute on it. I mentioned it on the form but I'll say it again here. I think for prices around what you're talking about it makes sense to make them per month $25/year is about $2/month, if you ask me to spend $25 up front for something I might think about it but $2 just seems like nothing.

Would you feel the same if he had to raise the prices to cover the fixed fee per transaction that most payment processors charge?

I think so, if you doubled it to $4 it just still seems like less to me, I know it's not but that's how it feels...

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an American, I personally hate that standard, and usually use YYYY-MM-DD wherever possible, and only revert to MM-DD-YY on documents that require it in that format. I get that MM-DD follows the conventions of speech ("the event is on May 7th"), but it's really ambiguous when written in all numbers.

"The event is on the 7th of May"

Unfortunately, that's just not the way people talk about dates here. Maybe it's because we use a backward date order, or maybe it's a self-reinforcing loop, but that just doesn't sound natural, even to me.

Re: Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard

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post #71

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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.

Finally decided to poke at it a bit. I hit login bugs, an infinite redirect loop, really inefficient UI, unhelpful graphs (where they were graphed at all - I filled in a week of fake numbers, it just spit it back out in text, and didn't even validate a number field), and a cost that isn't even remotely justified. It looks like a short-term project that has been left to rot.

tl;dr: no thanks. Daytum is infinitely better, and cheaper.

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