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dracan / tomatoad

Pomodoro Desktop Application (WIP)
MIT License
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Rate and add notes to Pomodoro #30

Closed dracan closed 6 years ago

dracan commented 6 years ago

User should be able to add a note to a pomodoro for their future reference.

dracan commented 6 years ago

To expand on this, when you first start a Pomodoro, a window should appear asking the user to enter text summarising what they'd like to achieve in this Pomodoro. Then when that Pomodoro completes, a second window should pop up asking them what they actually achieved. This second window should also show the text the user entered from the start of that Pomodoro.

It's important to reflect on what was achieved in a Pomodoro to maximize the benefit. This journalling of Pomodoros can help with this.

There should be a setting to not do this, as some users might find this annoying.

dracan commented 6 years ago

Also, would be good if on that second window, the user can rate the Pomodoro. Perhaps have a 5-star rating control that they can click on. I'll update this issue now to reflect this.

Odonno commented 6 years ago

Or something like the upvotes system of Medium?

dracan commented 6 years ago

@Odonno I'm not sure I follow. Wouldn't that require multiple users to be involved? I'm more thinking of when you finish a pomodoro, you can personally rate it yourself as soon as it completes, based on how focused you were, whether you got what you intended to get done in it, etc. Remember that this is local storage only.

Odonno commented 6 years ago

@dracan Not necessarily, The advantage is that you only one button to push. And it gives you a single number to store as simple as having a star-rating system. The thing is to find the best rating system for Pomodori.

dracan commented 6 years ago

@Odonno Doesn't that mean you'd have to press that one button multiple times to have a higher rating? What would be the maximum? This doesn't really feel like the correct use-case for something like this to be honest. There's no defined and obviously max rating either for an up-voting system, so it's not clear what you'd rate an awesomely focussed pomodoro where you got lots done. For a 5-star system, it would be obviously to just click the full 5 stars....

The main idea behind this is that sometimes when I finish a Pomodoro, whilst I haven't been distracted as such - I sometimes feel that it wasn't a great one, either due to not being as fully in the zone as I'd have liked, or not getting as much done as I'd liked. This just means that I can rate the pomodoro as such. Whereas, sometimes I get a pomodoro, where I'm completely in the zone, get loads done, and am really buzzing at the end of it. So it's nice to be able to rate this as such too.

dracan commented 6 years ago

Re. notes: if a pomodoro is restarted or interrupted, then the note popup when you start your next pomdoro should be pre-populated with the same text. A lot of the time, you probably want to type similar.