Mindset
Define one step for each day, so tiny, that you know you will carry it out. Break the project down into daily bites of work. Then take action every day.
Know in every moment what needs to be done to move you toward your goal.
Always ask this before you do a task: Does doing this get me closer to creating what I want to create?
Only plan items you can execute! Make your plans achievable. Less might be better. When you make plans you cannot achieve your motivation will be killed!
12 Week Year Outcome: make 100 Steem through beneficiaries rewards
Outcome(s) for this week
[ ] Enable user to read all her posts through the iSteem app
[ ] Complete the PostScreen
Monday
Did not work on the app :(
Tuesday
Did not work on the app :(
Wednesday
[x] Look at other projects and learn how they render Steemit posts
Thursday
[x] Remove HTML comments from body
[x] Evaluate react-native-markdown-renderer
[x] Render sample post from the stream and replace
Friday
[x] PostScreen: Show images in post by replacing image links with markdown image links
[x] PostScreen: Add custom rules for HTML H1-H6
Saturday
[x] Evaluated WebView, react-native-htmlview, react-native-markdown-renderer
Sunday
Remember, Sunday is special. If there are still open issues, you should finish them, or refine The Machine.
[ ] Plan for next week, prioritize backlog
Backlog
[ ] Clean up DesignScreen and make it a basis for the PostScreen
[ ] PostScreen: use WebView and add own stylesheet
[ ] PostScreen: Only replace image links when in json.image
[ ] Get the first image from a post to display it in the preview
[ ] PostScreen: Add Edit button on right side of header. Show it only when post can be edited.
[ ] PostScreen: Fomat posts written in Markdown properly
[ ] PostScreen: Show HTML posts properly
[ ] PostScreen: Show a list at the bottom of post.
[ ] PostScreen: Show creation time in the list at a post's bottom. 10:44 SUNDAY, 17, JUNE 2018
[ ] PostScreen: Show list of tags in the list at a post's bottom.
[ ] PostScreen: Show a star in the list at a post's bottom.
[ ] PostsScreen: Show sections between post items June 2018, July 2018 etc.
[ ] EntryScreen: Make the user stats line touchable and force an update of data
[ ] Add AppState listener to refresh data when app goes to the foreground
[ ] Use AppState to load / refresh data when app comes to foreground
[ ] Add possibility to change the user
The Week In Retrospect
Look at the previous week, before planning the next week. Do this every Monday morning.
What has worked? What did not work? Do you need to adjust The Machine? Be honest, find the truth. Plan the next week.
- Identify problems that stand in the way of you achieving the outcome this week
- Diagnose problems to get at their causes
- Design plans that will get you around your problems and toward the defined outcome
- Push through to completion. Do what is necessary.
- Define the outcome for next week that will bring you closer to your goal.
1st of July 2018 Recap Of Week Eight
This week felt like yet another unproductive week. I got very little done—at least from my backlog that is.
The main reason was that I did not know what packages I should use to convert the Markdown source to HTML and then how to render the HTML in my app.
I see the problem I have here. When I do not know how to tackle a problem it totally de-rails my work. I no longer work on my backlog. Instead, I spend hours and hours trying random solutions.
The next time a problem gets in my way I cannot solve, I will time-box the problem. So I can work on other stuff I know how to solve and still spend some time on the thing I have no immediate solution for. This only needs some awareness from my side.
But as my list contains only items I should be able to do under 20 minutes, it will not be hard to become aware of a roadblock. When there is a work session in which I cannot strike out one item from my backlog I know I have to plan around that obstacle.
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