Update on 'Projects & Progress Bars' Plugin
I've fallen horribly behind on my posting. I had planned on posting more but life is very busy. Right now I'm working on an Obsidian plugin called 'Projects & Progress Bars'. I've hit an impasse with a bunch of my projects and I need a new mechanism to help keep me on track. I'm vibe coding it since I'm not a programmer and I don't know how to code. The vibe coding seems to be coming along nicely but there is still a lot more work to do.
I know there is a lot of disagreement about setting goals and keeping track of things and some people say they don't like setting goals because it ends up creating unnecessary pressure for them. I have felt that way myself many times but only if I set too many goals or the wrong goals or if I don't take the time to think more deeply about what I want to accomplish in my life. But if I take the time to set the right goals in the right way I have found them to be transformational.
The problem remains though that there are always aspects of a project that are very tiresome to complete. For some sections of a project it can feel like drudgery. I need a way to get past those times. I have found that I respond very well to a visual cue like a progress bar. So I'm building a plugin that renders my goals and tasks as a progress bar. It pulls in all the goal, task and child project completion statuses and renders a progress bar with a completion percentage. I think it'll make finishing a project more fun.
This is just a mockup of what the dashboard looks like at the moment. Most of these are fake projects I set up to test it. And some of them are hastily made projects with a hastily made goal statement that isn't quite right. But this is the beginnings of it and I can see the potential.
Here's an example of a new project. The template will help me setup a project from scratch. Each goal expands to show the tasks associated with that goal. Here the tasks are collapsed but it gives you an idea of what it looks like:
I have some time today to work on it a bit more. I'll keep you posted on how the progress is going. Completing the plugin itself is the first project I'm testing it on. It's really fun to watch it coming together.