Who it's for: people that are stuck getting their "engine started" and making daily progress.
What problem(s) it solves: Everyone eventually falls into a rut. To get life "back on track" gratitude journaling can often help. The problem for ADHD people: they can't remember what they did yesterday, nevermind last week. Its called "time blindness" in ADHD circles. So journaling all the little "wins" throughout the day can help with your own self-audit. I have a 35 day win streak so far since I rebuilt the app. 487 wins over the past year - and thats only for a few months of wins saved.
What inspired me: I was stuck in that rut (more than once tbh): I haven't been formally diagnosed with ADHD, but I know one thing for sure: "win journaling" has been incredibly useful. WIP is sort of based on this idea - but your wins are public. I think if WIP had a "private" option for posts, wins, lists, projects, etc there would be much higher engagement and app use. I would stop building my app if WIP had that option.
Back story: I actually started WJ (win journaling) last year on paper. Then I wanted to use a minimal app but couldn't find one. So being a hacker, I learned Bubble and built it. It was pretty good but not great. I tried to get signups but nobody showed up (my marketing wasn't great tbh). I closed the app several months ago but then re-booted in Wordpress a month ago after ChatGPT became a helpful pair programmer. The app is close to what I want it to be now. But I'm going to rebuild it again as a Mac native app next. Security and privacy are a concern and this next rebuild will resolve that.
@mayur thank you for answering the questions and giving us more insight about Win Journaling! I signed up for the beta test and am excited to test it out.
As someone with diganosed ADHD that I'm medicated for, I can assure you that I can't tell you what I did yesterday unless I look at my WIP profile 😹 Even then, I forget to document everything, so I lose out on essential dopamine hits.
PS You can make your WIP profile private in the settings. I document client project progress here, so I want to maintain a level of privacy. My account is locked down, so if someone who isn't a member navigates to my profile, they can't see tasks, projects, posts, or comments, BUT they can see my posts (just questions, not tasks or projects) and comments only if they have a direct link to the specific post/question.
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Who it's for: people that are stuck getting their "engine started" and making daily progress.
What problem(s) it solves: Everyone eventually falls into a rut. To get life "back on track" gratitude journaling can often help. The problem for ADHD people: they can't remember what they did yesterday, nevermind last week. Its called "time blindness" in ADHD circles. So journaling all the little "wins" throughout the day can help with your own self-audit. I have a 35 day win streak so far since I rebuilt the app. 487 wins over the past year - and thats only for a few months of wins saved.
You can see my stats here: imgur.com/a/58EYYTp
What inspired me: I was stuck in that rut (more than once tbh): I haven't been formally diagnosed with ADHD, but I know one thing for sure: "win journaling" has been incredibly useful. WIP is sort of based on this idea - but your wins are public. I think if WIP had a "private" option for posts, wins, lists, projects, etc there would be much higher engagement and app use. I would stop building my app if WIP had that option.
Back story: I actually started WJ (win journaling) last year on paper. Then I wanted to use a minimal app but couldn't find one. So being a hacker, I learned Bubble and built it. It was pretty good but not great. I tried to get signups but nobody showed up (my marketing wasn't great tbh). I closed the app several months ago but then re-booted in Wordpress a month ago after ChatGPT became a helpful pair programmer. The app is close to what I want it to be now. But I'm going to rebuild it again as a Mac native app next. Security and privacy are a concern and this next rebuild will resolve that.
Thanks Cat! You are awesome!
@mayur thank you for answering the questions and giving us more insight about Win Journaling! I signed up for the beta test and am excited to test it out.
As someone with diganosed ADHD that I'm medicated for, I can assure you that I can't tell you what I did yesterday unless I look at my WIP profile 😹 Even then, I forget to document everything, so I lose out on essential dopamine hits.
PS You can make your WIP profile private in the settings. I document client project progress here, so I want to maintain a level of privacy. My account is locked down, so if someone who isn't a member navigates to my profile, they can't see tasks, projects, posts, or comments, BUT they can see my posts (just questions, not tasks or projects) and comments only if they have a direct link to the specific post/question.