Creator of Progress Dashboard here. I've been working on Progress Dashboard for almost a year now. This is a simple chrome extension to replace boring new tab with a useful dashboard. With Progress Dashboard you can access progress bars for year, month, week, day and hour. You can also create one for specific tasks with start and end time. You can select a background from image, gradient or Trianglify. Progress Dashboard comes with a Distraction Free Mode to stay productive. This mode is very minimal and it's dark mode
A short question:
> Progress Dashboard comes with a Distraction Free Mode to stay productive.
Isn't the progress dashboard a distraction in itself? That's at least my experience with those kind of tool, but I didn't try "Progress Dashboard" to be honest.
Which part of it took you a year to write?
You should put an example of a use case for some of the task bars in your website photos. "Task Progress" doesn't really convey any type of value to me. Maybe a specific example like "Gym sessions attended" would help show new users what the app can be used for.
I don't mean it shouldn't be or whatever. I'm just interested to know what is your thought behind "Support the Indie Maker Movement" you've mentioned.
If anything, I'd be tempted to make a completely blank new tab page - for me that would avoid the normal routine of seeing all my favourite favicons
This way I can have a CI dashboard as my homepage, but I only see it when I switch to it explicitly or when I close the last of my other tabs. Also, Conkeror doesn't have actual "tabs" in its UI: like Emacs, the open tabs ("buffers") are only listed after running the `switch-to-buffer` command (`C-x b`); so there's less distraction there too.
Since there's a whole lot of space to fill in while doing that, it might as well show you a pretty picture and some task or something.
I would consider a completely white page as a waste of screen estate.
Call me a minimalist (or whatever else you'd like), but "might as well" isn't a good enough reason to add distractions for me.
In fact, the only organizational tool that has remained a constant for me has been Trello, and only for specific projects. As an example, when I moved mid-last year, I set up a Trello board and filled it up with everything we needed to get done, Kanban style. This was super helpful because it helped manage a sense of being _completely overwhelmed_ by the volume of work needed.
And that's where I basically draw the line now. I tend to not live in a way where I let myself be overwhelmed by things, and when I need an organizational tool to help cope with the busy times, I know where to find one that works for most workflows I could come up with.
Then I have the sheet automatically emailed to myself as a PDF each morning so I can keep track of where I'm at for the week based on my budgetary needs. It visually breaks down how close I am to achieving my goals, and shows on a per-expense basis how much I've filled up the meter for the week (think "The average citizen spends the first 3 months of the year working to pay for their healthcare" type of thing).
It's been a great tool for keeping myself on target, and automatically seeing it every day has been key to its success for me.
