Im already resisting wanting to learn navigating thru this haha. But thank you for the effort and sharing aware about Time Blocking/Chunking.
I used to try doing so via Google Calendar, a while back. But then gave up, becz of how restrictive it felt.
I should give it another try, and maybe be more generous and forgiving this time around!
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That's a really cool implementation for someone who don't know coding and relied only on Claude Opus as their guide hehe
I learned how to code a few months before AI exploded, and was able to play a lot with most of the AI Models as they were being released and patched. Opus is a powerhorse, but as with any tool, the more you know about the underlying code structure, architecture, design patterns and bug fixing, the more mileage you'll make from the tool.
I usually spend upwards of 5 minutes writing detailed prompts before querying Opus for complex tasks, which can take him up to 10-15 minutes to execute and maybe an extra 10-15 minutes of me testing, debugging and manually fixing issues. But in an hour I can code what previously took me 1-2 days. It's wild.
All of my 'formal' learning came from freeCodeCamp. Not sure if you're familiar with their work yet, but I recommend it if you never coded at all in your life. Doing their curriculum will give you a very strong basis to understand what Opus is doing, why, and how to not rely entirely on it when things start to break.
Good luck and congrats!
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Glad to hear! The first few modules were the most gruelling ones, as they are the basis of everything that is to come and they make very little sense at first. I dedicated ~2 hours a day for the first few weeks, and it was only once I got past the Javascript module that things eventually started to click.
I started experimenting with AI assistants around module 6 or 7. At that point you already know what's happening, and the assistants just reduce the time you would spend scouring StackOverflow for answers and throwing stuff against the wall. I think it's sensible to avoid overreliance on AI particularly early on, but I wouldn't ignore it altogether in the long run :)
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Cool tips, thanks. I'm going to take it easy but I really love learning, especially languages to I'll stick with it.
I think algorithms are great to help you learn things in areas they can be trusted so coding definitely would be a good one to use that.
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I don't have ADHD but as someone who has struggled with anxiety for most of my life, that seems perfect to avoid the usual overwhelming feeling I get when I check out a "regular" calendar.
I am the Jon Snow of coding so I'm very impressed you managed to do that without any knowledge. I know AI is a contentious issue but getting it to do anything even remotely close to what you actually want must be a pain in itself.
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The idea is cool and great that it can also be used on the PC but not sure if I would use it since usually this kind of stuff doesn't really work well for me, or it does but I stop using it after a few days because I just forget and lose motivation... typical I know but well, that's how my brain works!
I did notice that the day starts at 6:00 and ends at 5:00 but since a normal day starts at 0:00 and not everyone gets up at 6:00 I would make it shows 12:00 to 11:00 to make it less confusing.
The idea you made this without being able to code is great, personally I rather stay as far away as possible from AI but the idea is very good so nice job!
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Oh and I know you're pain about dropping stuff thats good for you but is boring to do. Even with adderall, it's still happening. I tried a lot of things, even made my own thing called "quest board" where I would put my task like its an adventure's guild. and I get points for a task I complete, and I can use those points to get rewards. It was working for a bit, I thought I had a break through, but nope. just novelty. and when novelty wore off, so did my interest. But I think the important thing is, to keep trying to find something that would finally do it for you. instead of just giving up.
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If I could do or not do all the stuff that is good for me, a lot would change, sadly life is never that easy!
I have Autism and ADHD which is hard enough since it constantly contradicts each other and the times it does agree, it's not about a positive thing, super frustrating!
I moved not to long ago and have a whiteboard to add a lot of stuff to but in the end I can't bother and don't even care anymore, I made a week planner when I had a week planned very nicely but now it's all over the place so it keeps getting mixed up, I tried so many things and then it works for a while and then not anymore, if I can even bother to try!
Quest Board sounds so cool, I think for me that would work best if someone else would give me the rewards, else... I would just slack and stop caring after a while, may I ask what kind of rewards you used? It sucks that when stuff is new, it's excited and then I lose interest when the new wears off, or even worse, I get all kind of stuff for it but when it's time to start, I already stopped caring, I hate that so much and would love it if someone could give me a motivation solution... sigh
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I really struggled especially with routine things, like taking my daily pills or brushing/flossing and the like - what worked so far for me is, my partner came up with the idea of giving me a dot2dot of bulbasaur, and doing one line per each task done - and essentially by doing routine things I'm progressing on collecting the pokemon and filling out the pokedex :D it makes it a bit more exciting, and it's worked for half a year so far
after I finish one (usually around 600 dots) I like to colour it in then laminate it and keep it around
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Had to look up what dot2dot is, but now I get it!
The idea is indeed good, giving yourself a reward so that you will not only remember it faster but also have less struggle doing it, good idea of your partner if you enjoy doing this!
What often helps for me with chores is to make a list and being able to strike through what I did, that way more and more gets striked through which feels so satisfying! Downside is when you can't finish it all, so usually I give myself multiple days, like a weekend or whatever and also try that if I won't make it, to give myself a reason why I didn't, like 'very tired' or 'my body starts to hurt' or whatever and hope my mind will accept that, so small tasks so you can strike through a lot! Would love to also look into that reward thing, but not sure how I would be able to do that... now my reward is often a cookie when I am done and just want to catch a breath, like after vacuuming the whole house and feeling exhausted afterwards!
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That makes sense! Yes, I've also got all these small routine things in Google Tasks/Calendar and I love to cross them off, but just like you say when you can't finish them they can sometimes pile up and it gets overwhelming.
With these pokemon dot-to-dots it also the reward, but also the fact that I'm working towards building something, working towards completing the pokedex little by little haha :) it really appeals to my completionist side, I love collecting things too, it feeds into that for me
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I should check out if a reward like that would also work for me, something small and fast to do that gives a good feeling in the long run, just no clue what!
The downside is also that I moved not to long ago and the house is not done yet, which doesn't help at all since not only do I have normal chores but also a lot of stuff left from the move which piles up so fast.... ugh!
I hope that when most stuff is done I can build a working system that helps me, well, need one now as well but it has a lot of extras in it which I wish would just be done! Hopefully in a few weeks my kitchen is done (want to add an extra part) and then I can unpack more stuff, which results in buying another closet for the extra room to put the rest of the stuff in, also my bathroom isn't done yet which I get very stuck on since I can't do that myself and companies that can are expensive... everything is so expensive!!!
On the internet I looked for many tips on to survive with ADHD and I notice that many are not my thing but some are but when I try to actually use them, it doesn't work? And since I have no clue WHY it doesn't work, it's not easy to find something that does and in my head it gets bigger and bigger and I destroy everything with my thinking and ugh......
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also well done on doing the app with AI, it's hard work, I've tried using it for my work (web dev) but it feels to me like it needs too much guidance with things that would make sense naturally to a person, and it takes much much longer to review the code and test the app thoroughly
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yep, thanks everyone. using AI to code for you was painful. It's like a child that knows how to code. When I asked the time to start at 6am, cuz thats the usual time people wake up and do stuff, Claude only changed it visually, and it took soo many bugfix to realize that mechanically, it starts 12am. And it keeps repating the same problem over and over. and when I want a new feature that would contradict the old one, it wouldn't just completely remove the code, it would hide it, and that would result into more chaos. It was a pain. I'm done using AI to code for me. I would rather do it myself.
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Well not in colleges or university as far as I remember. Maybe you'll take a basic html course or something all the way in high school, but IT programs are about hardware like building computers and installing/setting up basic software like maybe installing a raid array and the software for it, not coding the software for a raid array. It also deals with like printer setup/repairs, anything net related like installing modems, routers and setting them up to entire server data centers.
The interfaces that IT workers use have already been done by a programmer.
That would be computer science, computer engineering and software engineering. Am I missing some? Maybe game dev/web dev programs if you're taking some very specific paths.
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In my country we have programming as a subject in University. (Including IT program then again in this university basically you could change easily from computer science bachelor to IT and vice versa, as subjects at the start are mostly the same)
For regular people I would still say it's in IT (field).
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As maruten stated, this would also not work for me. I have ADHD and I do have issues with lack of awareness of time but these sort of app, agenda block of hours doesn't work, in fact tends to make one feel more like a failure by setting fixed stuff that likely won't happen as things never go as planned.
Writing on paper what I need to do and break into small steps without hour pressure but rather sort of deadlines/goals is a lot more effective, at least to me.
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Impressive although I'm a much simpler person I prefer a mega simple interface of a calendar showing all days with no colors for specific hours or anything, where I just select the times instead of typing them in and add a note/alarm and move on.
Like some upgrades I'd want from something like this is to hide everything I wont use, like the colors, an option to hide the empty gaps in the schedule and instead display them as blocks(like if you got nothing going on from 5am to 10am just condense it into one line that says 5-10am). I'd start the schedule that way and as blocks are added I'd display them. I also would want this to fit on an entire page without having to scroll down and all the tools can go on the sides or top section minimized with icons that make sense. Like if I click the time clock it should bring up a little box where I select the times with my mouse instead of having to go back to my keyboard, and once I punch it in, I can just click/double click on the schedule in that time frame and name it whatever.
Regardless, pretty amazing what can be done in a few hours with AI coding nowadays. I was struggling to get the google directions api working the way I wanted and their own example was outdated, and deepseek did it for me in 30 seconds after I was struggling for like 5 days to get it going through stackoverflow, reddit, tutorials, googles doc, github examples, etc. Kinda pissed me off, and after looking at the code I still didn't understand why my implementation didn't work, so that was even more frustrating. The css code it generated was horrible and difficult to edit though.
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Did you use claude code or opus chat directly?
The chat version (both Opus and Sonnet) are as you say child who can code.. and it is painful to get it to do what you want. I have made several small tools that help me in my workflow. Usually takes me pretty quick though. But definitely with bunch of bugs and illogical decisions made by AI. Definitely nothing for long term or to be used by many people.
But friend of mine has the claude code setup and that is a game changer. It can really do weeks of work in hours. From what we have seen (we have a startup together and are building a product now) the code definitely has to be reworked to address security more seriously and overall stability and functionality has to be looked at again, but for an MVP it is brilliant. And I havent heard he runs into these issues as you state. As he put it - the chat version is simply dumb compared to the Code running in console. It halucinates less, does what you say more precisely. But you have to work of course with specific prompting as well.
Imagine - there are apps which have only one functionality as their whole offering. Something you pay, download and use solely just for that functionality. With Claude Code in two hours he singlehandedly shipped such a functionality in our product. We needed it for one project application. With paying customer we would still go back at it again. But for now while we work on getting some money in it wouldnt make sense spending weeks and months on coding something that could die off. In our product journey and understanding client we have refocused the functionality of our platform several times (not much, but sometimes features are pushed back and functionality adapted). If we would have needed to develop it with classical methods I would have needed half a year and bunch of devs coding something no one needs. This is where many startups burn through millions of investment funds and end up bankrupt.
AI definitely is game changer if correctly applied. What we see now are clueless people installing Clawdbot or whatever it was called, letting it access every personal detail and then being surprised it burns crashing to the ground. Anyway - I just wanted to reassure that Claude Code runs way smoother and is less dumb for coding. So definitely something that can be stuck with. With my experience both from my daily job and from my startup AI is not just a fad and it will replace juniors and menial tasks.
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Hello everyone. I made a new app. I actually don't know how to code, so I used Claude Opus to code it for me. which is harder than you think, I spent hours and hundreds of stupid bugfixes and tweaks trying to get the app exactly how I want to. I will be learning to program soon. I actually had a lot of fun doing it. I'm actually nearly done with school for IT, but realized that making apps, and maybe one day video games are more enjoyable for me. IT still fun though.
Well anyways, about the app, It's a tactic on how ADHD people should set their schedule. Basically, instead of using one of those over complicated schedule neurotypical people usually do, you do it by chunks instead. so 12pm-3pm = study or chill. its 1 satisfying chunk, when the dial (time) touches the start of the chunk, it will start to shimmer and glow, and also make a sound. You can have as many chunks as you want, but you would want it simplified, maybe 5 chunks at most.
You can right click or tap and hold to create a chunk without using the controls. It is both mobile and PC, it will auto detect it. There are 3 presets, Lazy day, normal day, and amazing day, you can have different scheduled chunks on all of those presets. Everything auto saves when you make any changes. Anyways, I hope you enjoy the app if you find it useful. I will eventually put this on googleplay for free with no ads. but not on iphone, they require yearly subs. Please report any bugs you encounter. That would be great! Thanks.. heres the app
Also, this app could also help autistic people. I don't have enough experience to know for sure.
https://adhdchunkorganizer.netlify.app/
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