I’ll definitely look into these apps. The money tracker thing might be a good starting point!

On the point of spoons and whether folks would understand their significance: one thought is that, I could maybe have different settings to change the language and visuals to batteries or something similar? It’s definitely something to implement much later on, after i figure out the core functionality, code everything, make the first set of visuals, etc etc. But I definitely will keep that in mind!

Data privacy is definitely on my mind with this whole thing. It’s kinda why im on lemmy, and moved my laptop to linux, and generally am very vigillant when it comes to my online privacy. Ideally the app would be free, open source, have no login requirements, work without internet, and store data locally.

Thank you for your insights! If you do find anything notable with those apps, please let me know :)

I’ll look into it, thanks for the recommendation!

That’s super fair, and I appreciate this perspective a lot! I’ve thought about this a bit myself–part of the challenge i think is making something that I would use, because I’ve never really had a phone app that actually works for me in the realm of time management and similar for this exact reason. It’s a lot of energy to learn an interface and consistently input enough data that the app could even work. I think that will be the main difficulty, trying to make the app as effortless to use as possible while still maintaining the functionality I’d want.

Data privacy i think won’t be too hard to deal with–I’d intend for the app to be free, not have any login requirement, and for all the data to be stored locally. I have a lot of concerns about privacy (both as a general thing and because of my ptsd) so this is another part of making an App That I Personally Would Use. Thank you for the kind words and your perspective :)

My brother is home for reading week and we’ve been playing board games a lot! In other news, going to see a documentary in a theatre today. It’s called Your Fat Friend and it’s soemthing I’ve been looking forward to for a while