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statsd for urself

sometimes you just want to monitor some of those small one-off statistics and do so in a low friction way (e.g. "how many times did I see the old style tram on this line" or "what level of headache am i currently experiencing" or "please track my stool consistency") that one usually has to make a google form, for. And then you have to make graphs and it's a whole thing and you just wish it was more automatic.

The idea

Add keys like 'trams/4/old' and 'trams/4/new' and then you can just tap those entries to increment them when you want to record a data point. We'll provide some graphing somehow based on your keys.

data model (aka notes for myself)

counters:

• simple (+1), implemented! e.g. how many times you saw a specific tram
• complex (+N), requires a popup. e.g. beverage tracking

gauge:

• (±N), not sure what you'd use this for, lemme know if u dear reader have ideas

timers:

• wouldn't be hard to implement? just store an interval, if it's open it's running. if closed then done. could be useful?

known use cases / key structuring ideas

• alc/12% - counter, increase in mL (should we store a unit?)
• bristol/{1..7} - simple counter
• tram/{old,new}/{1,2,3...}
• pain/head - [0,5) - personally use fractions here, maybe this is a gauge? but non filled values here generally aren't meaningful? here subkeys to subtype left/right/migraine would be useful, and then aggregating those in graphs
• pain/knee/{left,right} should we render 0/1 as bools?
• MH/anxiety - gauge
• MH/SH(I) - counter

this isn't envisioned to bring in external data at all, so, not sure i have any use cases for timers? could use it for periods ig.

it'll be relatively automation free ofc.

todo

• units
• gauge, timer
• +N dialog
• version the data even if not supporting migrations yet
• a11y testing (esp for mutable values, dialogs)
• error checking (null names)
• validate gauge entry
• suggest using /
• compact mode, only buttons + inputs with small (+) button
• bulk add with templating
• remove values
• sort table by key name
• padding on export import buttons
• settings dialogue? (compact mode, non 90s theme?)
• undo!!!
• graphs

graphing plan

by default everything, let folks drill down by one or more keys in case they didn't organise well. minimal UI. zoom?

also want a calendar view

sync story

there is one now! please run one yourself. See cgi-bin/store.py for an example implementation. It is recommended to run it yourself on your tailscale or so.

LICENSE

AGPL-3.0-or-later