insin / yak-stacker

An app for tracking your Yak Stack during programming sessions

Yak Stacker

An app for tracking your Yak Stack during programming sessions.

Usage

Click the Start button to begin a new session. This will automatically stop any existing active session with an indeterminate end time.

When you're starting a new task, provide a description in What Are You Doing? and (click Start Task/press Enter).

If you get sidetracked with another task directly related to what you're working on, click the task's (Stack button/some sort of shaving icon) and provide a description in What Are You Doing Now? and optionally provide some notes in What Do You Need To Remember Later?

Click the I'm Done With This button on any task stack once you're done with it. All nested tasks will also be considered done.

If you're conciously stopping working on a task and have some context you need to remember later, click its Stop button and optionally provide some notes in What Do You Need To Remember Later?

If you're conciously stopping working on a session click its Stop button. This is primarly a psychological device intended to help you go to bed because you can't continue the same session without manually hacking Yak Stacker's persisted state.

Design Questions

• Should tasks you're not done with automatically move to a new session when it's started? This isn't a TODO list, it's a aide-mémoire, so an I'm Still Working On This button on open tasks (or some other UI for moving tasks over, e.g. autocomplete open tasks in What Are You Doing?) from previous sessions might be more appropriate.

Tech

• React, Inferno or Preact; easy to switch with nwb
• Just use localStorage initially
• PWA, as it needs to work offline (stack.push(Add Progressive Web App support to nwb))