slimformation / slimformation

A tool to help users track and improve their content consumption.

Slimformation

This tool is built on the idea of an "information diet" and conscious content consumption.

Here's a video walkthrough.

• A recent blog post about Slimformation
• New home at Knight Lab
• Katie's original post about Slimformation

Slimformation - the Chrome Extension

Check out slimfo folder for the extension's README.

Bootstrapping GitHub issues

Relevant files in etc/.

$ pip install requests
$ python github.py

This will prompt you for your GitHub username/pw.

slimformation's Issues

graph for reading level

don't display dupes in recently visited pages

fix border radius on header and footer

activity chart doesn't load colors if all options are removed and then category is added again

If you remove all categories from the chart and try adding one back in, then it doesn't add colors back into the chart. The labels go in the right place though.

ask user to set goals if no preferences saved

In the goals tab, if there's no goals set, show the sliders view instead.

handle new users gracefully – activity tab is just empty when you first start using it

activity chart show a decimal for the minutes

We round to minutes, so we actually don't need to show the seconds.

Display goals bar graphs using real data

Issue 5 is done, meaning that user preferences can be edited and stored. The relevant user preferences models/collections are:

• UserReadingGoal (exactly the same as ReadingBudget)
• UserReadingGoals

A good idea would be to make a collection called ReadingBudgets and populate it with ReadingBudget models. A ReadingBudget is like {name: "politics", value: 50}.

Final Presentation Changes

Followup with notes by profs.

"edit goals" button stops working if you go from goals -> activity -> goals

If you try editing your goals after you went from goals to activity and then back to goals, the edit goals button doesn't work anymore.

Design overhaul

• Fixed height for all tabs
  • implemented in 0569b62
• navbar must stay visible always
  • meaning #popup-main-container should be scrollable and fixed height
  • implemented in 0569b62
• Navbar overhaul
  • implemented in 0569b62

Questions

• get rid of "View My Dashboard" ?

amount of time displayed isn't correct

Time displayed used for the category-source page / activity chart are both wrong. They are far too high to be minutes.

styles for activity graph

Negative times

times being displayed are negative.. so the updated_at time might not be correct which would give a negative number

http://d.pr/i/n2Ow

recent page visits disappeared

prescription tab functionality

was worked on in issue_9 alongside other crap

time stored is wrong

I'm not 100% sure what is going on, but if you open the same website twice (for example, one time at 12:00am for 5 minutes (and closed at 12:05am) and then another time at 1:00am) then the time shown will be for 60 minutes, and not 5 minutes + whatever is added onto at 1:00am. This is really weird... at least this seems to be what's going on for me.

In activity tab, the sliders for goal selection should be the color of the category

Also, the square of color could then be removed! WIN WIN MOTHAFUCKA