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Phil Emerson
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Riffing off this, Github's heatmap is really cool and would be a good fit for WIP.
We have something like this already: wip.chat/@emerson/stats
I'm actually in the process of improving it as the current implementation is a bit rough around the edges.
Not sure if this is the move, but maybe separate personal products vs work products?
Say we added a way to distinguish between personal and work products, how should we use that?
Perhaps streaks should not take into account personal todos. Anything else?
Are you interested in seeing personal products at all?
Yeah, it's definitely a tough call if you were to do this, how should it be done?
Some rapid fire thoughts:
The majority of people on this site have two "work in progress" categories.
The first being their businesses.
The second being themselves (Gym, meditation, whatever).
So I think it'd be cool to have two streaks, one personal, one business, to encourage some balance.
I think if this is done, and done right (The hard part), it could be really cool.
I wonder if a personal streak makes much sense though?
I think at that point product-specific streaks are more useful. So you can earn a streak for going to the gym regularly. But of course, having to do so daily would probably be too much for most people.
We could make those product-specific streaks customisable as they are more personal by definition anyway. You could just set your own goal (e.g. every other day). But then it's starting to sound quite convoluted.
Anyway. Adding a way to mark products as personal and not have them count towards the streak might get us most of the way there.
Possible suggestion: Allow products to be 'sunset' or discontinued, rather than deleted completely.
Ah yes, I want this myself as well. I've got a bunch of products I no longer work on but I don't want to delete them from my profile.
What if we call this "archiving" a product? They would be hidden under a "Show archived products…" link on your profile. And perhaps those product pages would include a prominent "Archived" label.
This would allow you to archive products that are sunset, sold, on-hold, etc.
Yeah, it's definitely a tough call if you were to do this, how should it be done?
Some rapid fire thoughts:
The majority of people on this site have two "work in progress" categories.
The first being their businesses.
The second being themselves (Gym, meditation, whatever).
So I think it'd be cool to have two streaks, one personal, one business, to encourage some balance.
I think if this is done, and done right (The hard part), it could be really cool.
I wonder if a personal streak makes much sense though?
I think at that point product-specific streaks are more useful. So you can earn a streak for going to the gym regularly. But of course, having to do so daily would probably be too much for most people.
We could make those product-specific streaks customisable as they are more personal by definition anyway. You could just set your own goal (e.g. every other day). But then it's starting to sound quite convoluted.
Anyway. Adding a way to mark products as personal and not have them count towards the streak might get us most of the way there.