The Pomodojack Application

Contributors: Peter Tan, Sandra Martinez, Magdalene James, Nick Gluch

The Why?

There are a lot of different task applications out there right now, but none of them has the Pomodoro Technique integrated within the application architechture. This application aims to create a tool to allow users to persistently store their tasks in a fun and visually relaxing way while applying the Pomodoro method to their general workflow. For more information on the Pomodoro Technique, Click Here.

The How?

We will be utilizing the following technologies in order to achieve the functionalities that our application aims to achieve:

• MySQL for back end server
• NodeJS for Express.js usage and pathing as well as backend routing
• Handlebars for website templating engine
• Materialize for CSS and Javascript library

So what is the workflow like?

• At this point of the development, the full functionality of the application has not been achieved. However, we will attempt to show some functionality that we were able to achieve in the two-week development period that we had available for this project.

• For the purpose of showing our available functionality, we have two versions of the working functionality shown below:

  The Mobile functions before back-end interference:

  

  The previous Desktop experience, workflow and bugs:

  

• Disclaimer: the latest commit to this project caused an issue where the backend requests intercept each other thus causing different bugs, which will be shown below:

  Current version bugs and workflow:

  

  The Login functionality:

  

Possible Future Feature Implementations:

• [ ] The Pomodoro Timer: The core timer feature for the Pomodoro Technique, should be able to move task cards forward following the Pomodoro workflow

• [ ] Better and Smoother animation: The animations need to be smoother and more responsive

• [ ] Getting rid of back-end request interference: The back-end interference needs to be fixed so that the cards can be responsively moved and removed.

• [ ] Better Responsiveness of the Application: Application front-end design needs to be more responsive and work better on a mobile platform, since the application design started out based on Mobile First Design.

Motivating Ourselves:

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. --- Linus Torvalds