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Field Card: a printed page that gets me off the screen

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built Going for a walk sounds simple until you are standing outside with no plan and a phone in your hand. Field Card is a small web app that does the planning part. I type where I am (a city or area), what kind of place it is, how much time I have, and who is coming. A model running on my laptop writes…

Field Card is a compact web application designed to streamline the planning of outdoor activities. The user inputs their location, the duration of their outing, the type of area, and the number of people joining. The model running on the user's laptop generates a one-page card containing a checklist of items to bring, points of interest to find, a rule for the phone, and a thought-provoking question for after the outing.

The card is then printed, and the user closes their laptop, disconnecting from the digital world. This process ensures that users are physically present in the moment, without the distraction of a phone screen.

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