Deadliner helps you keep track of the time left for your deadline by dynamically updating the wallpaper of your desktop with the time left.

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Command-line rust wallpaper productivity gui time cross-platform project-management rust-lang wallpaper-changer deadline-manager
Overview

Deadliner

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What's Deadliner?

Deadliner is a cross-platform desktop application for setting deadline for a project and keeping track of the time left by dynamically updating the wallpaper of your desktop with the time left so that you're always reminded with your deadline and how much time is left and hopefully can help you stop procrastinating like me.

See the landing page for more details

App Screenshot

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Desktop Screenshots

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Why?

So, I was researching on “what makes someone productive?” for the 731th time! And surprisingly I found it in a video from Jonas Tyroller - Indie game developer.

I like to take inspiration from game developers cause in my opinion they're the most motivated/inspiring developers 😊 .

This video was about asking successful game developers on how they think about productivity and the results were fascinating, they all agreed on Deadlines as the most effective solution for procrastination.

I’ve always avoided deadlines in my side projects as they’re usually for learning purposes cause I thought setting deadlines will make me rush through the project and skip learning important details.

And so I said to myself: “Hey, let’s test this technique on my current side project(lightning-fast markdown parser), that can also improve my deadlines’ estimations a bit.”

Then I set a 14-days deadline, I immediately started to feel the difference on the first 2-4 days, after that I started to forget about how much time is left, so I wake up and say: “Hey, let’s watch a YT video and get to work after that, not a big deal right?”, plot twist: Yes, it was a big deal. The way you start your day has a huge impact on how the rest of it will go.

So I searched for desktop apps for setting deadlines and keeping track of it and what I found was that most of them share the same issues:

  • Limited customizations
  • I’ve to start it whenever I boot up my OS
  • Lots of super annoying notifications for the remaining time
  • Uses kind of a lot of resources in the background

So, that was a sign for a good Rust 🦀 project that aims for solving these issues 💪 .

Credits

Logo is from flaticon

Comments
  • chore: reorganize in preparation for setting multiple backgrounds

    chore: reorganize in preparation for setting multiple backgrounds

    Hey there, I was just going to experiment with some UI update for the image countdown, and I ran into some code that I felt could benefit from a little bit of re-organization to make it easier to work with the backgrounds.

    It essentially just moves all the separate variables used to track the background selection into an enum.

    This is just my personal preference on organization, so totally fine if you don't like it!

    opened by zicklag 4
  • Remove Unnecessary String Allocation

    Remove Unnecessary String Allocation

    I just got to testing removing the extra string allocation you were talking about in your earlier review, and it looks like it was totally unnecessary. I must have moved things around back so they weren't a problem or something.

    Anyway, here's a fix to set it back. :)

    opened by zicklag 1
  • Feature Request: A way of moving the date around the screen

    Feature Request: A way of moving the date around the screen

    I like the concept of your project.

    Could there be a way to move the date to a specific place in our image?

    It would really facilitate the customization process with certain wallpaper.

    opened by gamernewone 3
  • Feature Request: switch between background images to emulate deadline intensity as it gets sooner

    Feature Request: switch between background images to emulate deadline intensity as it gets sooner

    Original discussion #10

    I think an implementation possibility would be to add a plus button to the current background image select section o f the UI:

    image

    The idea would be that if you add more background images, then it uses the first one by default, and then has a dropdown select maybe for specifying the time remaining to trigger the specific background at.

    For instance, you could have a default image, then click the plus I con to add an image that displays for one week remaining, and then one that displays for one day remaining, etc.

    The biggest question would be how to make the date-remaining selection easy to make, but also flexible enough.

    opened by zicklag 1
  • web: low resolution screenshot of the app

    web: low resolution screenshot of the app

    This is a cool project! I like the idea of forcing yourself to things. I could really use something like this.

    I was looking at the website on my phone, and it is not very mobile friendly, barely functional.

    One more thing I noticed is that the image off Deadliner on the features page is very low res.

    If you want I can take a look at it. :)

    opened by YesSeri 2
Owner
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Deadliner helps you keep track of the time left for your deadline by dynamically updating the wallpaper of your desktop with the time left.
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GitHub https://deadliner.vercel.app
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