aibhleog/how-are-you

A small script which, when paired with .bashrc, asks you each day to rank how you're feeling and logs it. This code will only prompt you the first time you open your terminal that day.

Hi, how-are-you?

This project is a small script which, when paired with your .bashrc, asks you each day (the first time you open your terminal that day) to rank how you're feeling and logs it.

Running the how-are-you.py script generates a file called feelings.txt which is used to store your feelings entries. For now, I'm not going to upload my feelings.txt, for obvious reasons -- however I've generated a fake feelings list (random_feelings.txt) that I used to make example plots (random_tracker.pdf & random_hist.pdf).

To make this work with your .basrhc, you can paste these lines at the end of your .bashrc:

# runs script when the terminal is opened
# note: script won't prompt you if you've already answered that day
python "/path/to/script/how-are-you/how-are-you.py"

This prompt only happens the first time you open a terminal that day. Every other time you open your terminal that day, you won't see this prompt.

Other scripts in this repo

There are three other scripts in this repo that hopefully you'll also find useful! I'll describe them below.

• see-feelings.py -- reads in your feelings.txt file and plots up how you've been answering over time.
• see-hist.py -- reads in your feelings.txt file and plots the entries as a histogram to get idea of how you've answered overall (this script is run at the end of see-feelings.py).
• update-feeling.py -- allows you to update your feeling entry for the present date (pulls & replaces the value in the last row of the feelings.txt file.
• generate-fake-feelings.py -- a quick script I threw together to make random_feelings.txt so you can see how the feelings are stored and how they're used in the plots (check out random_tracker.pdf & random_hist.pdf for plot examples!).

I recommend you reference both see-feelings.py and update-feelings.py as aliases in your .bashrc file! That way you can run this from your terminal, regardless of location. Here's how mine look:

# alias for showing feelings tracker
alias feel='python /path/to/script/how-are-you/see-feelings.py'
# alias for updating feelings entry
alias newfeel='python /path/to/script/how-are-you/update-feeling.py'