Optivity

Inspiration

The pandemic has forced many to work or study from home, and almost everything is online. Now, it's now more difficult than ever to maintain focus without being distracted by advertisements popping up. We wanted to create an application that provided a distraction-free workspace.

What it does

To-do list and timer for time management.

How we built it

HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for the site's GUI. We used Flask for URL routing, and Director to host the site.

Challenges we ran into

Flask. We had some issues with Director and Flask, so that set us back a lot for long periods of time.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Making it work (the site crashed a lot). Also, getting Flask to work.

What we learned

How to do basic Flask, some JavaScript, jQuery.

What's next for Optivity

An account system (we were planning to make it, but due to the many setbacks we had, we couldn't add it in time). The account system will allow users to save their to-do list and timer progress even when they leave the tab.

Built With

Submitted to

HackTJ 7.5

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I worked on the to-do list as well as the URL routing with flask. This was my first time using a web framework, so that was fun, although it was pretty challenging. I also tried adding the account system, but unfortunately we ran out of time.

Daniel Chua
I worked on the timer feature, and also created the logo, and name of the site. And I helped make the sign-in and registration system.

Chloe Carr

Updates

Daniel Chua started this project — Dec 12, 2020 05:39 PM EST

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