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albertvaka / bettercounter

A daily counter to track habits
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Feature Request: Ability to retire/archive a counter #31

Open dariaGirl opened 1 year ago

dariaGirl commented 1 year ago

Great app. Popping in to request the ability to retire/archive a counter.

Which i guess would be some sort of auto-export/Import, store CSV in app folder, connected to a specifically named counter stored in the app.

albertvaka commented 1 year ago

So you would like to export a single counter before deleting it, right? It makes sense, but I'm not sure where this could fit in the UI.

Some brainstorming: Maybe we could add it as a question after you click "delete" (eg: "do you want to export this counter before deleting it?"). Or maybe we could separately add the option to export a single counter from the three dots menu... then you could use that option before deleting one, or in any other moment (which is a bit more versatile, but requires two actions for your use case: first export, then delete).

MikeStirner commented 5 months ago

Or to make it a more broad feature, the app could allow the user to move a counter off of the main list and onto another list. There could be an "Archived" list by default but the user can add more. Would also help people like me who have 100 counters from needing to scroll so far all the time haha.

And when you export data, the CSV could look like: counter_name,list_name,epochtime1,epochtime2,...

albertvaka commented 5 months ago

Yes, other people already requested categories/tabs. It could be used as a workaround for archived/old counters.

Although "retired" counter management is more complex than just that... Eg: the last time I retired a counter I actually wanted to merge it with another one. I don't think this is common enough that we need to support it in-app, though (given you can always export, modify & re-import) , but I'm not sure.

MikeStirner commented 5 months ago

Yeah, I've only wanted to do that one time so far, where I wanted to basically reset a counter, but I wanted to keep the original timestamps of the times I used that counter. But I just worked around it by doing an export, and then resetting the counter. And that's good enough for me.

And if I wanted to merge, then I'd probably just do an export. And I could probably figure it out in 10 to 20 minutes, and then re-import. So, probably not worth doing a bunch of coding when it might only happen for someone every month or two or never.

If I ever do this, in spreadsheet format, some kind of merge function, maybe I'll post it as a file here, and then people can just use that spreadsheet.

Another workaround is to have two different counters, so that you don't have to reset one of the counters. One of the counters is the number going up, and one of the counters is the number going down, and so then in your head you just subtract one from the other, and that difference is the current number.

An example would be... How many yogurts do I have in the fridge? And so I have a counter that counts how many yogurts I've purchased ever. And another counter next to it representing how many yogurts I've consumed from the fridge ever.