Spent some time this weekend working on the UI for this project. Once I can get this to where I like it the coding will start.
You can see a screen shot of it below. Also you can follow the progress more fully on my git hub account. http://github.com/jdaines/mindbender . The designs were created in the awesome program of balsamiq. Progress is happening slowly but surley. If you have any ideas about how to make this better or something that doesn’t make sense please leave a comment.
Oct 12 2009
Mind Bender UI
Oct 03 2009
Announcing Project Mind bender
Mind Bender
I’ve been in the process of planning a new project. While it will be mostly aimed at the Android platform I would like to port it to other hand held devices once it is going. But to keep me going I am going to post all the development ideas and progress I make here at this blog. I’m hoping that some others will find the project interesting enough to give some feedback or learn from this process. I have also set up an issue tracker at project.minorsoft.com. This site will turn into mostly a project update site for this. I will move more of my personal blogging to www.givemefreedom.org.
A little bit about Project Mind bender and its goals. I am hoping to create project mind bender to help people control or see the symptoms of depression in their lives. With all the pressures that we have today our minds respond in different ways. For many of us that response ends up in depression or feelings of being overwhelmed. I hope to use this program to help people identify situations, places, or people that tend to lead to these types of feelings or thoughts. Our brains are powerful instruments and need to be taken care of.
Yet depression for many is something that is hard to admit or deal with. The only way to control/cure depression is for those to be open about it with themselves. Depression is not usually the result of one big event but a series of small little events that culminate into one big problem. But to identify those events a record must be kept. Since many people carry their phones with them at all times and they are getting smarter and smarter I thought this would be the perfect instrument to record these small events. It will allow people to discreetly and quickly record the event. Nobody thinks twice anymore if somebody pulls out a phone and fiddles with it for a few seconds. In those few seconds a record can be made and later reviewed and aggregated on the phone to help us understand our mental health.
The key to this program will be the User interface and those are the areas that I am working on right now. I hope to have some posted here soon for you to see and give feedback on.
Sep 28 2007
New Job, New Place, no time
Its been a bit since I have posted. I have good excuses the best excuse is that its my blog and I can post when I want! The other good excuse is that I recently started a new job as an internet coach at Prosper learning. So between the move and getting up to speed here at Prosper I have been pretty busy. I have been working on a few things of note. First off the WidgetNest blog the Incubator has finally launched!
Also I recently helped get Adoma’s Afri Crafts up and running. It is using the drupal CMS and the really cool ubercart module. The image to the left is a sample of some of the neat Free inspirational Desktop wallpapers that you can get there.
Jun 19 2007
Go Mahalo It!
Dave pointed me to an article written about Jason Calacanis’s new venture mahalo. I agree with Dave that Mahalo makes more sense now.
However “Go mahalo it“, “I mahaloed him” just don’t have the same ring as the google’s. So maybe Jason should look at grabbing some domain name like tinyask.com (your welcome dave expect a check from Jason any day now). “Go tinyask it” … Nope doesn’t sound good either.
Ahh well hopefully they will figure something out. Maybe they should read some Dr. Suess for inspiration.
Apr 26 2007
Senior Project, GTD oh my!
I am writing this from the ScribeFire extension for firefox. It seems pretty cool. Life has been pretty busy these last couple of weeks. Trying to get project widgetnest off the ground. Starting sumer semester and trying to get my senior project started/approved. Its a frustrating process that is all I will say.
Oh yes I am going to try out the GTD process of organization It looks pretty interesting and I hope it will work for me better than my current system of organization. It expresses alot of how I think things should be done and I couldn’t really find anything to say see this is why it won’t work for me. Like I have with other organizational processes.
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Feb 24 2007
Current wEight: 185 lbs
This entry was just used to test our RSS parser that grabs the data from my blog and updates the widget.