Weight Tracker

After the ambitious plans that I had when I worked on the Habit Tracker, nothing happened for quite a while. I did set up the supabase database. And I did fill it with data from time to time. But the energy burst necessary to create the nuxt application never came.

And then I remembered something an old colleague of mine said once.

“Everything any client actually wants is excel. They just don’t know it.”

While that definitely is an oversimplification of what it means to be a business analyst and to understand a clients needs, it does have a grain of truth in it.

• clients usually have some data spread over multiple sources
• they usually want to combine that data in someway
• And then they’d like to see it visualized in an accessible way

Again oversimplification. But often enough this is what a lot of projects have in common. And my habit tracker is no exception.

So after remembering that quote I thought “why not. What should I be ashamed of, let’s try using google sheets at least for my weight data”. And so I did what you can see below.

It is simple, it is stupid, and it is actually all I need. Setting up the data was even easier than I expected

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And I already tried out extending the table and the chart automagically updates accordingly. Like my colleague said, all I needed was excel, or in my case google sheets.

Let’s see if this will help me keep track of my weight as I wanted to.

Keep it simple stupid my friends. See ya,

Kevin