Learn from Lucidites: Ideas on using Lucid for personal projects 💡

I love these ideas ​@LauraMN! 😍 

I can imagine using Lucid for comparing wedding venues, mapping out the space/seating chart, and even visualizing decorations and wedding colors. I love using Lucid to recap trips and holidays! 

Where can we learn more about/from Cal Martin??? What does the whole dynamic table look like? I assume each column is a day of the week but what are the rows for?

HI ​@patrickpereira1988! I might need to do a whole post about this but here are the cliff notes!

So the whole table is pretty big lol! With two ADHD’ers in the house we needed to see all the tasks up front. To help that, the dynamic table is built using custom rows and columns. The rows we left blank as that didn’t need anything and the columns are the days of the week! In total in covers 35 days but we just change to a new breakout board every month. We did contemplate putting the calendar week on the rows but decided against it.

The Tasks are organized in color coded containers with sticky notes. We have daily, weekly, monthly, and “quarterly” (my partner is not a business person so I did say 3 months in the doc). 

The daily tasks are always populated in the table as we strive (and mostly) achieve those daily and we copy paste the other tasks as necessary. In retrospect I probably should have used a custom shape library instead of containers….. BUT HEY EVEN I AM LEARNING!

As we complete tasks we just use emojis to mark as done and can even comment to ask for support (spell slots in our house)! This would also be great with cards (my partner just found those and LOVES them so I may end up re-making this)

I’ve attached some screenshots that can hopefully get you a better picture (pun intended) of the chore chart!
 

Thanks for sharing Cal Martin. Do you have a YouTube channel or have you appeared on Jessica McCabe’s How to ADHD channel?

Did you also use physical post-it notes before using digital sticky notes? Can you feel a difference between using a digital version of a physical tool like a sticky note versus just typing all this up on as a list with headings on a white background in a todo list app?

​@patrickpereira1988 I do have youtube but it’s for my music production. I write, record, and produce lofi music using classical instruments! I have not appeared on Jessica’s channel, but I’m always down to meet new people! 🌟

Before Lucid we had laminated PDF documents with three categories, day, week, month. The issue with that was that I couldn’t remember every single week what I was supposed to do OR what we had done the week before since we erased the laminate all the time. I also felt like the chores never ended since it was always a daily and weekly conversation on what needed to be done. It was also one of those things where if it wasn’t assigned a day I would put it off till the end of the month and then panic clean the house to not be behind on chores.

The digital aspect means we can save more easily, update quicker, maintain clearer visuals, and truly the tagging and commenting has been a game changer. (We are both terrible texters, but we constantly check email so we never miss a tag). We use a shared note in the notes app for more clear instructions (like doggy care), meal planning, or shopping. In general I find the digital aspect so much easier to use and access. 

Do you think it would be useful if the Hide feature for frames came to the Dynamic Table feature for individual columns and rows to reduce visual overload or from becoming visually overstimulated? It would be the equivalent of collapsing columns in a typical kanban app. 

That’s an interesting idea!! I have little pull when it comes to feature requests - but I would recommend throwing that brilliant idea into our feature request page!

I do think it would be interesting to see though