How makers stay productive

I happen to agree with many of these points, so will definitely take in consideration.

Thanks!

I agree with @lori. imho it's not always easy to find motivation to get certain "life" things done (for me: e.g. I dread doing housekeeping, paying bills…), and being able to log it somewhere keeps me going. It's like… this stupid mundane thing MATTERED! My inconsequential little life isn't completely POINTLESS lmao 😄

The examples above, plus say prepping a nice dinner, going out for a run, working out etc. are all part of a healthy maker's mindset and routine.

Maybe there's a way to separate the two? One feed for general / all the logs, and another for just hardcore "maker" stuff.

Another thing is the 'guilt' factor. When I see Oliver just did a 10km run, Lori just did a workout, or @Monday just had the zoomies… it kind of nags at me that I have to go out and stretch my legs today too, even if it's just a walk in the park. That part of the accountability works (for me!)

I like seeing these life logs. It reminds me that everyone here has, or is trying to create, a balanced life too, and we're not all just 2-dimensional coding machines :)

@poppacalypse @lori

I 100% agree that life logs can be done in a good way. Housekeeping, working out, excercise. Getting our shit together is really important, even for work :D

The problem is that it opens the door for logs that are just there to keep the streak.. Like napping lol

So maybe we should allow life logs, but just remove pointless logs? 🤔

I agree with @lori . There's just too much hustle porn everywhere. We are humans, not photoshopped models, and that's how our lives look like. We want balance, we want to see the actual action, not just the view from the top and success stories.

Folks - I strongly agree on the lifelogs part, they're definitely not going away. A balanced life is super important.

My main gripe is integration spam - how do you folks feel about it on the feed?

@sergio Remove all integrations. It might "force" ppl to manually type in more meaningful logs.

@lori I agree that this may help build a streak. On the other hand, the quality is inconsistent. When I look at the logs and see some people manually enter what they do with a description I understand, I know what they are up to. When I see they've pushed a bunch of commits, I'm not sure what the progress are. Such updates are probably only meaningful to the authors (which may not be bad in itself).

@lori that's an idea.

Uh oh! Message me on crisp.

Same here, I'm afraid. Though I just started treating Streak as something that comes and goes, while I see value and progress in the logging and interacting with the community :)

@doomhammer I no longer think of them as something important anymore because it keeps resetting to 0 and it goes to 2 (max.) lol.

@vaibhav yeah, I try to maintain my "internal" streak and that's what's important. Consistent work on our part :)

@doomhammer Folks - I'll be taking a look at this, this shouldn't be right. I recently pushed a fix that might have something to do with it -- although this isn't good.

That's the plan! The final remaining changes for a while will be Gold and bugfixes… We need to start generating decent MRR.

@sergio 🔥🔥🔥 I 100% agree! I wanna reach that level with Instatus too and just focus on marketing :D