Cumulus

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  Cumulus review page

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  Our coded menu (simulating home page)

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  Cumulus home page

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Inspiration

We were inspired by David Allen's book "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity.

What it does

The process laid out in his book (and https://youtu.be/wLjgUYm2wpk 8min) is called CPR: Capture, Process, and Review. To develop this app, we would make a user-friendly and innovative way of "capturing" to-do ideas, as well as the other two stages. The premise is any time you think of anything you might want to do, you quickly write it down and come ack to it later during the Process stage. The process stage is where some fun stuff comes into play. At a designated time every day (say 5pm) you filter through all the items that have pilled up on your capture list over the past day. With each item you ask "Is this something I want to do?" If no, move it to the Someday/Reference list. If yes, ask question 2. "Can I do this in two minutes?" If yes, do it. If no, move it to the Next Actions List. At that point, we are potentially done for the day. At any point you're looking for something to do or figuring out what you will do that day, reference the Next Actions List. If this list gets too long, say over 30 items, split it up by location (ie school, work, home) or project (ie internship, senior design, summer trip). That goes all fine and dandy, but there is another step. Review. Once a week, you sit down for about 45 minutes and evaluate your tasks, projects, and goals. You ask yourself a series of questions that help prioritize your projects and tasks.

How we built it

We utilized java to make a simple menu of how our app would work, and used Figma to showcase the visual aspects.

Our challenges

Unfortunately we were unable to combine the visual aspect and the coding aspect in time for the hackathon.

Built With

• figma
• java