Methodeck

A live personal productivity web service that keeps one shared task pool, reinterprets it through six execution methodologies, and turns verified activity into rewards.

A product we planned, launched, and operate ourselves. Read these as evidence of technical range and operating practice.

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Project Overview

Methodeck is a personal productivity web service built around one shared task pool. Instead of registering the same work in different systems, users enter a task once and reinterpret it through Pomodoro, Kanban, Eisenhower, Eat the Frog, GTD, and time-blocking lenses. It includes a Today Hub for today, next-seven-days, and undated work, reflection and history flows, a responsive calendar, Google OAuth, and an optional read-only Google Calendar connection. Domain events drive server-side XP, streak, and badge projections; users can view progress and receive an acknowledgement-based unlock moment. The product also includes an in-app notification API with scheduled and read states.

Product screens

Today Hub for organizing today, next-seven-days, and undated work

Desktop monthly calendar combining tasks and time blocks

Mobile calendar combining monthly navigation with a daily agenda

Pomodoro focus screen for starting a session, tracking time, and completing work

Kanban board for managing priorities and progress by dragging work across states

Evening Review for reflecting on completed and unfinished work

Eisenhower matrix for deciding the next action by urgency and importance

Morning Check-in for setting priorities and a focus plan for the day

Day calendar for placing work by time and reviewing the day’s plan

History timeline for revisiting accumulated work and reflections over time

Key Challenges

Preserving a task exactly once while projecting it into six different execution methodologies
Keeping Today, calendar, reflection, and history surfaces consistent with the same task pool
Turning domain events into XP, streak, and badge projections without duplicate rewards or client-side tampering
Integrating Google Calendar with explicit consent, encrypted tokens, and a read-only data boundary
Modeling scheduled in-app notifications independently of the later delivery channel
Verifying GKE releases through public database-backed health checks and authenticated API behavior

Key Outcomes

Built and deployed a Turborepo product spanning Next.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, shared contracts, and methodology definitions
Implemented Pomodoro, Kanban, Eisenhower, Eat the Frog, GTD, and time-blocking lenses over one task model
Built server-derived XP, activity/reflection/frog streaks, and eight badges with progress, filters, and a one-time unlock experience
Implemented scheduled in-app notification persistence and authenticated list/read API contracts
Added responsive Today Hub, calendar, reflection, and history workflows with desktop and mobile E2E coverage
Operated the public service at methodeck.com with Google OAuth and optional read-only Google Calendar integration

Technologies

Next.js 15React 19NestJS 11PostgreSQL 16Drizzle ORMts-restEvent-driven RewardsGoogle OAuthGoogle Calendar APIGKECloud SQL