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tl;dr I was having a hard time researching votes for my representatives in Congress and decided to build a tool that aggregated the data into a view that was easy for me to parse.

With midterms coming up, I am trying to do my due diligence of researching my representatives in Congress to see whether their votes aligned with their public statements.

https://www.congress.gov actually has a list of all the votes if you search by congressperson. It was difficult for me to parse each individual vote out of the UI though due to all the unfilterable noise. In my opinion, the layout isn't really the best either. There are other aggregators out there like govtrack.us but none that I found which had a comprehensive list of every vote.

Luckily, I discovered that congress.gov makes the voting data readily available via an API. Unfortunately, it's only available for members in the House of Representatives. I had to use an alternate library for the Senate. Once I had all the data together, I was able to mangle it into a shape that made it much easier for me to parse through.

In order to make it easier to compare votes with my own views, I also made a "Vote Match" feature. This feature randomly displays various bills which lets me flip through them and think about how I would vote on them whenever I have a spare moment. Then, I can scroll through my representatives' pages and do a line by line comparison. Where we differ, I can further research to figure out reasons why my representative might have voted differently. I figured the tool would be useful to other US voters too so decided to make it public.

I also tried my best to make it as privacy oriented as possible. All pages are statically generated and the "Vote Match" feature saves everything in your browser's local storage. The address form is just a convenience feature that redirects to https://geocoding.geo.census.gov. However, I've included manual steps on how to find your district too.

Data shows that voting turn out is usually lower during a midterm election so I also tried to bake in a fun, easy way to share and encourage people in your life to vote. My inspiration here was Wordle's result sharing after you do the daily solve. There's a button on each representative's page that generates an image card of your vote match percentage that you can copy and share.

Any feedback is very much welcome. I'll also take any other tips and tricks you might have for researching to become a more informed voter.

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Here's my story.

I'm the person who almost never put things back in their place. It's not because I'm lazy or because I don't want to, it's because I'm always on the rush.

I have 2 kids in school, 3 properties, a job and a lot of things to joggle at the same time. It often happened that someone from school, HOA, doctor's office handed me a document which I needed to keep for a period of time. It was either a reference or prof of something. Because it was a huge hustle to scan, rename and move it I just kept it here and there until I eventually lost it (to read correctly: my wife threw it away tired oof moving it from here to there). I remember I used to have documents scattered in my Photos App, iCloud and 2 different scanning apps.

I realized that If I had an app which allowed me to scan in a folder where I had pre-configured a naming convention, compression rate and orc-enabled as needed, I would stop avoiding putting things in their place from the start. So I've created Pockli.

The app is simple, it has:

- a home view where you can quickly scroll to your favorites, recents, tags and 2 shortcut folders. I wanted to see the files preview in a larger format, so I don't have to open different documents to identify the needed one. - a files view - similar to Apple Shortcuts app. You can crete your folders in different colors and add a symbol as to quickly identify the folder. From the files view you can search in the curent folder on all folders by file name or content. You can also import documents and open pdfs directly in Pockli.

Here's the flow: I've created different folders for my car, receipts, kids school, etc. I configured individual naming convention and compression rates. Next, when I receive a document I want to keep, I just open that folder and scan it directly in. That's it. The end.

The app uses Apple APIs for scanning and editing documents, so you can do things like document markup, resize, etc.

The app is freemium so it has a subscription or a lifetime purchase. I offer a 7 days trial period. Why a subscription, you ask. It's because I want to add multiple features like local LLM, create a custom PDF engine, and others. So hopefully the app will get traction and I can start sooner my work on these features.

Before we go there, I know you can scan in Files and Apple Notes - but the created files are big and not all documents are worth ~2MB and additionally you do have to manually rename your files.

Thank's it. Waiting for feedback. Thanks for reading this.

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