jeancarlomachado/whatnext

A smart and lazy way of organizing your studies. Prioritize the future and track the past. An open-source product written in Haskell and Elm

Whatnext

Whatnext is the only way I found myself being able to have some control over my studies.

It's methodology is quite simple. You define the subjects you want to study, the importance of any one of these subjects and the complexity of them. Given that whatnext will calculate what's more important for you to study right now. It will give you an ordered list of "what to do next". You may follow it or not. Next time you study any of the subjects you tell whatnext. With this info in hand whatnext will refine what's more important to do next.

Anytime your requirements change over the subjects you may only change the configuration file and whatnext will figure out what's more important next.

The projects rests on some premises:

• Life is too complicated to prepare beforehand a calendar of what to study and follow it accordingly
• Yet we want some control and balance over the subjects we study
• What really matters is that we know what to do next
• What to do next cannot be a "must follow" only an advice
• It's better to study in many little sessions than in few big one's
• We want to study a lot of things and there are subjects more important than others (and their importance change quite often)

For a detailed explanation see this post

The production version can be found here for free.

To get Further examples at a look at the documentation

whatnext's Issues

Add statistics of subjects studied

It would be nice to have a command like this:

whatnext statistics

Average time between sessions: 1 day
Total hours registered: 70 hours
This week hours: 7
Current streak: 12 days without missing 
Subject most studied: math

category theory
    10 sessions
    7 days between each other (avg)
    3 days ago last time studied
math
    30 sessions
    12 days between each other (avg)
    14 days ago last time studied

Improve configuration files

Today there are 3 configuration files. And probably in the future there will be a need for more. It may be better to rethink this setting. Maybe a single configuration file would be better.

Inspect a subject

The possibility of viewing detailed information about a single subject.

Web version

This issue is to discuss a web version of wn

Customize study session length

Today we assume every study session has a length of 50 min we should be able to customize it.

Docs

Create a documentation explaining every detail

Flow energy flag

When you are tired but yet want to be productive would be nice to tell whatnext.

TIRED=1 whatnext

So it will prefer subjects with less complexity

Compare past performance

It would be interesting to know how well was this week when compared with the last one.

corrigir dependencias

esta faltando a instalacao da lib jq e um arquivo date_diff.js

Count streak

For how many days you've been studying in a row.

Gif example

Create a animated gif to show the usage.

Open text editor when no done description was given

Subject view

It would be nice to have a view of a single subject. What was already done, the description. Goals, etc.

Packaging

Create bundles for archlinux and ubuntu

Support goals

Lets say I have a test in 3 months and I would like to make at least 10 study sessions on subject X.
It would be awesome if whatnext prioritize this goal during this period.

whatnext site

Build a landing page to show the software