Code for Good: BalanceBoard

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  UI

Inspiration

As someone that quite struggles with their mental health, one of the things I most struggle with is keeping track of time and sticking to a plan. I find myself often grappling with keeping track of how much time I'm spending on my activities. This gave me the idea of creating a board where I can balance my time. It would help me reduce stress and help me with realizing which activities I should do more of if I have the time.

What it does

It's a gamified productivity and wellness planner that helps people build more balanced routines. It lets users color-code their daily routines, log their sleep schedules, receive pop-ups when starting and ending an activity and a system to rate these with a satisfaction scale. Throughout the week, users can view a summary of their satisfaction and sleep quality with a small wellness recommendation.

How we built it

I built it using Python and the tkinter library (Thank you Reddit) to create a small interface.

Challenges we ran into

It was hard to figure out how to create a scrollable timeline layout and making the light/ dark mode toggle for the UI.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I'm proud that I was able to figure out how to do much of this since I had never used this library before. I liked how I made the UI and implemented the light and dark mode toggle along with the emoji feedback.

What we learned

I learned how to structure a tkinter UI around real-world and real time routines. I also learned (more or less) how to make emotional tracking more engaging.

What's next for Code for Good: BalanceBoard

If I wanted to add more I would add more data visualization with charts and mood trends. I would also like if I was able to save all the information in files.

Built With

• python