Cut and Paste, Ali and Ben's surgical logbook app for medical students (2017)
project history · status: last documented in 2018 · last event: milestone (2018-01-03) · owner: Ali
Parts: Ali and Ben promise a video on naming their surgical logbook app (2017) · Ali and Ben promise to email sign-ups when their surgical logbook app is ready (2017) · Ali promises a video on designing the full Cut and Paste website (2017) · Ali and Ben promise a video on prototyping the Cut and Paste app (2017) · Ali and Ben promise an episode on starting to code the Cut and Paste app (2017)
About: Cut and Paste
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-07-26 | announced | Ali and Ben will make a simple iOS and Android app, connected to a back-end database, that stores the details of the operations a medical student has assisted in. | We're trying something new... · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 1 00:01:44 |
| 2017-07-28 | milestone | Ali and Ben's surgical logbook app is now called Cut and Paste, and its website is cutandpaste.ac. | WE HAVE A COOL NAME · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 2 00:03:02 |
| 2017-08-03 | milestone | After a few hours of Ben's paper sketches and a few hours of Ali and Ben working together in Sketch on one computer, copying in template components, they had a reasonable-looking Cut and Paste design. | How to design an app · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 4 00:04:22 |
| 2017-08-06 | milestone | Ben links the Cut and Paste design screens into a clickable prototype in InVision, the final step of the prototype. | Animating the prototype · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 5 00:00:29 |
| 2018-01-03 (happened 2017-12) | milestone | Ali says the meeting with the transplant surgeon went really well: the surgeon, who has done a lot with medical companies, gave Ali and Ben many ideas on how to expand their app and make it bigger and better. | Preparing for the SJT - Ali's Vlog #21 00:02:25 |
What is said about it
21 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2017-07-26 · We're trying something new... · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 1 — Ali and Ben, fifth-year Cambridge medical students on their medical elective in Cambodia, have just come up with an idea for an app they are going to make. — 00:00:00
- 2017-07-26 · We're trying something new... · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 1 — announcement: Ali and Ben, two relative beginners, plan to build an app for medical students over the next few weeks and share their process as they go. — video description
- 2017-07-26 · We're trying something new... · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 1 — announcement: Ali: In the planned surgical logbook app, the student enters a random patient identifier and the supervisor's name after an operation, and the app records the date, time and hospital automatically. — 00:01:44
- 2017-07-26 · We're trying something new... · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 1 — announcement: Ali and Ben plan to document the process of building their surgical logbook app in videos. — 00:01:44
- 2017-07-26 · We're trying something new... · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 1 — Ali hopes the surgical logbook app may become something very useful, and says that either way they will learn something. (hedged) — 00:03:12
- 2017-07-28 · WE HAVE A COOL NAME · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 2 — Ali and Ben started their surgical logbook app project with three steps: market research, coming up with a name and setting up a quick website. — 00:00:00
- 2017-07-28 · WE HAVE A COOL NAME · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 2 — Ali: After discussing whether to continue, Ali and Ben decided their app stands apart as a free, simple, easy-to-use surgical logbook only for medical students, without the extras doctors' logbooks need. — 00:00:00
- 2017-07-28 · WE HAVE A COOL NAME · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 2 — Ali: After "Cut and Run" and "Slice and Dice", they chose Cut and Paste: "cut" for the surgical side, "cut and paste" for its connotations of tech and entering data, and it rolls off the tongue. — 00:01:43
- 2017-07-28 · WE HAVE A COOL NAME · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 2 — Ali: On Namecheap, Ali and Ben bought the cutandpaste.ac domain for £25 a year, split between them as an investment in the business. — 00:03:02
- 2017-07-31 · How to make a website in 5 minutes · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 3 — Ali: For Cut and Paste, Ali and Ben's surgical logbook app, Ali builds only a landing page at cutandpaste.ac that says what they are doing and offers a mailing list sign-up. — 00:00:00
- 2017-07-31 · How to make a website in 5 minutes · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 3 — announcement: Ali says he will make another video showing how they design the full Cut and Paste website, using Sketch and other apps he will introduce later. — 00:00:43
- 2017-07-31 · How to make a website in 5 minutes · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 3 — recommendation: Ali: For a quick logo for any project, Ali picks a fitting icon on flaticon.com and puts text next to it, and redesigns the logo later if the project goes well. — 00:02:13
- 2017-07-31 · How to make a website in 5 minutes · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 3 — Ali registers the domain on Namecheap and edits its DNS settings, so cutandpaste.ac now shows the site; making it, buying the domain and the DNS took about seven minutes in total. — 00:03:42
- 2017-08-03 · How to design an app · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 4 — Ali: Ben spent an afternoon sketching Cut and Paste on A4 paper taken from a hospital printer: boxes for the home screen, the logbook page and the add-operation page with a patient ID field. — 00:00:54
- 2017-08-03 · How to design an app · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 4 — Ali: After Ben's paper sketches, Ali and Ben held a session to discuss the ideas, suggest improvements and drop what they did not want, then moved to a computer design. — 00:01:56
- 2017-08-03 · How to design an app · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 4 — announcement: Ali says the next video in the series will show how they prototyped the Cut and Paste app, making its screens link from one to the other. — 00:04:51
- 2017-08-06 · Animating the prototype · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 5 — Ben: The Cut and Paste app design has five main tabs at the bottom. — 00:00:29
- 2017-08-06 · Animating the prototype · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 5 — Ben: In the Cut and Paste design, adding an operation, the main part of the app, runs over four screens and ends with a save-and-exit button that brings up a report. — 00:01:27
- 2017-08-06 · Animating the prototype · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 5 — Ben: The next step for Cut and Paste is coding the app, which Ben expects to take much longer and to need coding he will be learning for the first time. (hedged) — 00:02:55
- 2018-01-03 · Preparing for the SJT - Ali's Vlog #21 — Ali says that in a few hours he will meet Ben and a surgeon from Addenbrooke's Hospital to discuss the app they made, which earlier videos on the channel covered. — 00:01:49
- 2018-01-03 · Preparing for the SJT - Ali's Vlog #21 — Ali hopes there will be more news on the app in the very near future. (hedged) — 00:02:25