Timey Wimey

Inspiration

With the increase in virtual learning, more people are studying online and it's easy to get distracted. A lot of study sessions are held through Discord what and it is sometimes hard to focus when studying with other people in a virtual environment. We wanted to create a bot that would time our study sessions and give us breaks to prevent burnout and eye glazing.

What it does

The Discord study bot is implemented into a discord server. A user commands the study bot to ask for a study session. The program asks how long you want to study for, how many breaks you want, and how long you want the breaks to be. Then it starts a countdown timer for your study session. Once it is time for a break the break timer starts and it will let you know when the break is over. This process will repeat until you reach the number of desired study sessions.

How we built it

We built this program with Discord API and Python. We edited the code using Google Colab. The code runs on terminal.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into challenges with editing at the same time on Google Colab. The .env file was not running on colab so we switched to terminal. There were also issues with the timer, there were some problems with running breaks and displaying the countdown correctly.

We ran into major problems setting up the discord API, the python code that we had working for the study session had to be adopted to work under the discord API and we underestimated the time we needed to translate the code to a format that worked, and because of our late start to the hackathon!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We think our product idea is pretty genuis! The planning / design went great.

What we learned

We've never touched the discord api before, so we are building familiarity with it, and can't wait to use it more in the future!

What's next for Timey Wimey

We definetly plan on solving the issues we had initially, allowing users to properly set up their Pomodoro study session. We also will add a music command, so users are able to listen to music from any youtube/spotify link they send using the bot! Perfect for a great study session.

Make sure to keep updated on our future progress with the link below!

Built With

• discord
• python