Show HN: Field report with Claude 3.5 – Making a screen time goal tracker
The author shares their positive experience using Claude 3.5 Sonnet to track screen time goals. Claude proved reliable, fast, and auditable, aiding in reducing screen time through visualizations and goal setting. Despite design flaws, Claude improved performance with accurate metrics and visualizations, benefiting the author's screen time tracking.
Read original articleThe article discusses the author's experience using Claude 3.5 Sonnet to track screen time goals. The author found Claude to be reliable, fast, and auditable, although not a good designer. They wanted to reduce screen time and created a dashboard using Claude to track unnecessary app usage and set goals. Claude helped visualize daily screen time trends, track unnecessary screen time, display goal achievements, and suggest alternative activities. The author praised Claude for its improved performance compared to previous tools, highlighting fewer run-time failures, accurate metrics and visualizations, and better long-term memory. However, Claude faced challenges with unterminated lines in long chats and poor design choices. Overall, the author found Claude beneficial for creating a personalized screen time tracking dashboard and expressed satisfaction with the project outcome. The author shared the prompts used and code snippets for querying Apple screentime data, demonstrating the practical application of Claude in achieving their screen time goals.
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