learnout

This app is aimed to help those struggling with burnout or poor study habits. It provides an interface for managing a study session, then graphs your habits and how they impact your wellbeing.

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"Learnout; study wellbeing companion"

We have decided to reinvent study focus apps (like the popular "forest" app) to have a greater positive impact on wellbeing for some people.

What have we done?

This project aims to provide a study tool to encourage people to work in a way that suits them. Many people (the team included) find the patters some study helpers promote unhealthy; Forest, for example, punishes you if you do nnot work for as long as you planned. This is unhelpful for those with a disability, as prioritising study over our needs is not sustainable. Hence our app, learnout, will not punish people for "failing" to focus. It's design is oriented around letting people know when and how they study best.

What it does

The main user interface has a "study" button, then two "break" buttons for different types of breaks, to gather data about study habits. When each session is over, the user will rate how they felt in that session. After this data is collected, it produces a graph reviewing several statistics such as study quality vs total break time, to enable the user to see correlations.ion

How we built it

We spent several hours scoping out the problem on paper, and drew our mascot, well before we ever touched our keyboard. That was followed by us all starting on our own sections, then merging them all in the newly created git repo. We spent several hours on the first day getting the code into a workable state, then spent some time on sunday getting some "polish" into it.

Challenges we ran into

Git merges. Several times, we had to all collaborate on making our disparate changes come together in a single commit because git couldn't handle it.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This code is only a couple of hours from being fully complete, and would actually be useful if and when we do complete it.

What's next for learnout

We might work on finishing this over summer after the exam season, it'd be genuinely interesting to see what statistics we can gather, and what that shows us.

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