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A simple and free tool to track the 200 weeks of your UG life

By jc

Summary

## Key takeaways - **UG life totals 200 weeks**: Undergraduate life is for four years, which amounts to about 200 weeks, taking into account all exam days, holidays, everything that you have to accomplish and enjoy. [00:57], [01:11] - **Accept you'll accomplish little**: No matter what you do, you are never going to accomplish or enjoy all the things that you are thinking; it is only going to be a very small subset of your entire wishes. [01:26], [01:42] - **Use tool for weekly reflection**: At the end of each week you can reflect and review; with the help of this simple HTML page, you can be honest with yourself and get a feeling of how it has been. [02:22], [02:51] - **Rate weeks poor to great**: Click on past weeks and mark them poor, low, okay, good, great; it keeps on giving you a score that encapsulates everything. [04:50], [05:03] - **Score holistically across life areas**: Make an honest assessment even if not great academically but okay in co-curricular or fulfilling in friends; the score encapsulates everything or use separate versions for academics, personal, co-curricular. [06:27], [06:50] - **Free local HTML, phone installable**: It's a simple barebones HTML page, local file, absolutely free with no ads; install on phone via u-tracker.netifi.app in Chrome or Safari for app-like use. [03:09], [07:42]

Topics Covered

  • Undergrad Life: Only 200 Weeks
  • Accept Unachievable Wishlists
  • Weekly Honest Reflection Drives Choices
  • Holistic Scoring Beats Compartmentalized Tracking

Full Transcript

[music] Hello everyone. If a person lives up to

Hello everyone. If a person lives up to the age of 80 years, then just [music] think for how many weeks would they have been alive?

Well, each year has about 52 weeks.

So 80 into 52. So that's approximately 4,000 weeks.

This idea is the basis of a best-selling book 4,000 weeks by Oliver Burkeman.

[music] Now he goes on to discuss various things associated with time management in the books and and that is associated with entire life. But uh this idea gave me

entire life. But uh this idea gave me the inspiration [music] to think about more restrictively specifically for undergraduate life. So

undergraduate life is for four years.

Again the same idea. So if you think about it, you have about 200 [music] weeks for your undergraduate life and this is taking into account all of your

exam days, all of your holidays, [music] everything. So everything that you have

everything. So everything that you have to accomplish, everything that you have to enjoy.

So it is all encompassed within those [music] 200 weeks. Now there is no reason to hit the panic [music] button.

In fact quite the opposite. So the first thing which you have to realize is that no matter what you do, you are never going to accomplish or

enjoy [music] whatever you are thinking all the things that you are thinking. So

it is only going to be a very small subset [music] of that of your entire wishes that you are actually going to accomplish that you are actually going [music] to enjoy. So let go of it and be calm.

However, there is absolutely [music] a reason to take this as some kind of an inspiration, some kind of a motivation to utilize the thing to [music] utilize the little time that you have these 200

weeks approximately in a very fulfilling way, in a very intentional way. [music]

So, how can you do it? Well, you have to make some very wise choices. Now, there

is no app in the world, nothing, no advice in the world which you can which can actually help you do these things.

You have to do it yourself. But at

[music] the end of each week you can reflect and you can review these things and for that purpose an app may be

helpful. [music] So with the help of uh

helpful. [music] So with the help of uh this claude from anthropic uh I've got an app made. It's not even an app. It's

just a simple HTML page very very simple uh barebones using which [music] at the end of each week you can just get a feeling you can [music] uh be honest

with yourself you can get a feeling of how it has been for you good excellent whatever okay [music] so I'm going to show it to you so let's go to my screen

okay so this is the HTML page okay so as you can see from the URL. This is actually a local file

the URL. This is actually a local file [music] uh in my uh in my desktop and uh this is as barebones as it gets. So the only

thing that you have to enter here uh if you have to use the default settings is to fill in your first date of your undergraduate life. So the first day of

undergraduate life. So the first day of your first [music] year.

So let's do that. So for example uh [music] if I am a first year student let's say uh you can we can [music] do

this. So maybe

this. So maybe something like this go back to July maybe and maybe choose 28th or anything.

Okay. So uh so let's say 28th and then all I have to do is [music] build my calendar.

That's it.

That's all that it does. And [music] as you can see here, let me make it full screen. So

screen. So all that you have in your four years of undergraduate life is [music] encap encapsulated here. Okay. So this black

encapsulated here. Okay. So this black box it indicates uh the current week. So

it means that all these weeks each of these [music] boxes it represents each week. These blue boxes they represent

week. These blue boxes they represent the holidays. Uh this is the winter

the holidays. Uh this is the winter break. This is the summer break, the

break. This is the summer break, the longer one. [music] And all these weeks,

longer one. [music] And all these weeks, they have all gone by. Okay? And all the boxes that are after this black box, they are the ones that are going to come. Okay? As simple as that. Now, the

come. Okay? As simple as that. Now, the

only functionality so to speak that I have put in here is that in one of these boxes, any one of these boxes which have gone [music] by, which are in the past, you can just click on them and you can

mark them. Okay? So it has been poor,

mark them. Okay? So it has been poor, low, okay, good, great. We can just do this. Let's say great. Maybe the week

this. Let's say great. Maybe the week before that I can click click this maybe. Okay, that's it. And it keeps on

maybe. Okay, that's it. And it keeps on giving you uh a score. So that is the only computation uh that it does. Which

is why uh I'm not too worried about using claw [music] for this uh doing this thing. I mean it has just given us

this thing. I mean it has just given us a very pretty interface. uh uh that's all the coding that it has done. Uh

honest admission I have not written a single line of code [music] for this uh for making up this interface. It was

just my idea inspired by Oliver Burkeman's book and that's that. So uh

there is no other functionality here. So

uh the actual functionality will actually go on in [music] your mind. Uh

so please use it. The only thing which is required uh and certainly it is absolutely free. There will be no ads

absolutely free. There will be no ads nothing. uh it will be just [music] a uh

nothing. uh it will be just [music] a uh uh file. I'll put the link in the

uh file. I'll put the link in the description and the only thing that that is required from you is your honesty how you use it. Okay? So there's nobody's nobody going to ask anything of you.

There's no checks. [music] Uh so whatever you feel like you put it here.

Now please note that I have not put any special uh provision here to so [music] it's just these things. Okay? So maybe

uh you feel that it has been not so great academically but in terms of your co-curricular [music] things it has been kind of okay but you have had a very fulfilling week in terms of your

relationship with your friends now maybe you have had some fun then uh make an honest assessment of it and good give a reasonable score [music] okay so this is this score is encapsulating everything

now if you're really interested you can maybe uh use it uh I mean three different versions of it one for academics, one for your uh personal life and one for your co-curricular activities or extracurricular activities

you choose. Okay. It is completely up to

you choose. Okay. It is completely up to you. They're completely flexible. Okay.

you. They're completely flexible. Okay.

And by the way, one small thing uh so tucked away in this little corner over here, you can see adjust the individual uh semester dates. So, for example, uh I mean these [music] are some kinds of

estimated things by default. If you

really want to [music] uh dig down into it and give some perfect dates uh so you can click here and for [music] the autumn semester for the winter break you can actually give these dates and build

up your entire calendar over the [music] four years. Okay. Uh just one small

four years. Okay. Uh just one small thing uh if you really want uh those of you who are more interested in tracking these [music] things uh maybe on your u

uh on your phone then [music] what you can do is you can go to this uh [snorts] uh [music] to this URL. So this thing

u-tracker.netifi.app.

u-tracker.netifi.app.

I've put it over there. If you go there uh and uh you're using Chrome or maybe Safari, you'll see this option coming up. And if you click on install,

coming up. And if you click on install, it'll just get installed. Okay? And

it'll get installed like an little icon, like an app icon on your uh on your phone. And if you just press on it, uh

phone. And if you just press on it, uh you can use it on your phone also. So

that's it. Uh, good luck using

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