Create a personal scoreboard which influence people to implement positive habits with consistency and to become more disciplined.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_StdhS7XI0

It is no overstatement to say that all people, even in different levels, have difficulties with the creation of positive habits and discipline. Although the ambition for big dreams and having the knowledge that the persistence is one necessary key for success, it is still common the feeling of frustration at the end of the day for spending more time than it should in the socials networks and less time than necessary with books, physical exercise and other important matters.

In the studies about work execution [[Covey, S. (2015). 4 disciplines of execution. Simon & Schuster.]] it is shown that keeping a compelling scoreboard is one of the pillars of execution, keeping people more engaged, motivated and focused on their goals.

This project was born from this idea. The first version was deployed on papers and pencils, in some months became a online spreadsheet and for the final project of CS50 course we developed an application with the same principals.

The main idea of this application is to be the compelling scoreboard for the daily tasks of the user. Also, it gives a quick access of the user vision, an overview if he is heading to a positive outcome towards his goal or if the user is just procrastinating.

The main focus of the application are:

• let the user define a main goal
• let the user define the rules that are derived from the main goal
• let the user to registry his actions, monitoring his progress

do-not-procrastinate is a web application to help to improve peoples discipline. Once you run the application via How to run, you can use the following steps to start:

1. Create a user to get started and login in the application

   The 'username' will be used in the login page, while the 'name' will be used only to personalize the user's home page

2. Create a Goal description

   Another pilar of execution from the book [[Covey, S. (2015). 4 disciplines of execution. Simon & Schuster.]] is to focus on the wildly important. Therefore, you should create the goal's description which is extremely valuable and concise.

3. Create the rules based on the actions that bring you closer to and further from your main goal

   The idea here is to understand what are the actions that you want to implement in your routine, and what are the negative habits that you want to stop. Also, you should weight the points for each one of the rules while and identify them as positive or negative action.

4. With all set now is time to add your tasks and monitor your progress

CSS + HTML + Javascript

Python + Flask + SQLAlchemy

• It is the main file of the application. Here, all the requests are handled and the proper html page will be rendered. Also, the database will be created once the app is started, using the models.py file.

• All models for the database are defined here. The database is composed by the tables: User, Tasks and Rules. Rules is used to store the set of rules in which the user will daily do to accomplish his goal. Tasks is used to store the user "rules" when they do them. The User table stores all relevant information for the user.

• This script contains only helper functions for the app.

In this folder it is located all the html templates that are rendered for the user.

• layout.html

  It's the basic html of every page in the application, defining the DOCTYPE and head tag, leaving the block body and block script to be filled by the others templates

• login.html

  Login page and form for the user

• login_failed.html

  Handle erros in the login step

• register.html

  Register page and form for the user

• register_failed.html

  Handle erros in the register step

• home.html

  This template contains the scoreboard combined with the registry of actions added by the user and the options to manage goal, rules and add more tasks.

• rule.html

  This page contains the table with the rules added by the user and the option to add and remove the rules.

In this folder is located the cascading style sheets file and the images that are used in the site;

• app.css

  cascading style sheets responsible to personalize the site layout

The following examples are for Linux machines. However, the commands are similar for Windows.

1. Create a python virtual environment with venv. Inside the folder /do-not-procrastinate:

python3 -m venv .venv

2. Activate the virtual environment:

source .venv/bin/activate

3. Install the requirements using pip and the requirements.txt file:

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run the app.py application with Flask:

flask run

Now you should be able to visit 127.0.0.1:5000 and see the login page of the app.

From this application there are several ideas of improvement, more features and better user experience. Some of them are:

• Add timestamps for the tasks
• Add the possibility to show other user tasks and points for comparison and competition
• Add graphs displaying the points over time
• Add onboarding to new users, for better experience
• Host aplication in a home server