Glimpse into my life

For this project, we had to choose something personal. Which begs the question of what should I do then I realized, what is more, personal than your own bullet journal? Since the start of the pandemic, I have started a bullet journal that I (more often than not) contribute to. In my journal, I track my habits of skin care, video games, walking dogs, reading, and no spending. For this project, I chose to use October 2022 and input all the data (besides personal narratives) into a spreadsheet. This includes the habits with the spending amount and items, events, and my happiness scale (the higher the number the happier I was 1-10). When looking for ideas I stumbled across this bullet journal idea from Tableau Public by Madalina Andrei needless to say I was instantly inspired by her work. I knew I wanted a monthly calendar view with different linked sheets instead of cluttering it on one page. However here are the issues I came across;

  • The “marks” are not different colors for the “yes” or “no” for the habit tracker
  • The text for the monthly overview would not display on the “marks” so I had to manually add text boxes for each day. Which was annoying and not accessible on different devices.
  • The scaling of the “marks” was very finicky causing there to be a lack of color.
  • Did not figure out how to use custom backgrounds

    Overall I feel as if this project looks unfinished due to the situations that I had so hopefully I will have the time to research and play around more with Tableau to make it fully finished.

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