The Journal App Making Journal: Day 35
FlashChat app update 3, and the last Clear Habit Journal review
What have I learned about app design and development today?
Today is a day about creating tables using the object UITableView.
For anyone who enjoys Microsoft Excel, table view is somewhat of a tease for introduction to tables in iOS. Because it is about presenting data, in many rows, and not very many columns, just one.
Created custom designed message cells to say, “Hey!”, “Hello!”, and “What’s up?” How exciting.
In the process, learned Type Casting, including downcasting and upcasting, not to stereotype anyone, but to access properties of classes and subclasses along a line of hierarchy.
What have I learned about journaling products / technologies / other journal users today?
Continuing to go through the Clear Habit Journal.
Apart from a one-line per day Daily Journal section as described yesterday, the Clear Habit Journal has four other sections.
- 1) a Habit Tracker section, 12 pages, 1 page per month, each page perforated and can be torn out for physical display.
- 2) a Dot grid notebook section, 168 numbered blank pages, each can be easily split sectioned into halves and thirds.
- 3) an Index section to index the notebook’s content.
- 4) a “how-to” section about using the notebook pages for 3 types of journaling: decision making, todo and time management, food energy tracking and workout organisation. The guide here includes a Prediction-Decision-Review Decision Journal template, a Second Order Thinking template, the Eisenhower Box, the Ivy Lee Method, Crossfit / Running / Strength Training Workout templates, and a Food Log template. It interestingly left out the Cornell Notetaking template. I guess this did not set out to be a learning journal.
I love the idea that the Habit Tracker pages can be torn out and put on walls for display of habit streaks. As the author pointed out, the key benefits are three:
- It creates a visual cue that can remind you to act.
- It is motivating to see the progress you are making. You don’t want to break your streak.
- It feels satisfying to record your success in the moment.
But I am blown away that in this day and age of apps and personal devices, these systems of personal organisation remain popular in the medium of pen and paper.
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