Field Card: a printed page that gets me off the screen
Description and use
Field Card creates a printable one‑page checklist for a walk using a local LLM, enabling users to leave their phone behind and focus on the experience.
Problem
Planning a walk without a phone in hand is difficult when you have no plan and a phone in your hand.
Outcome
The app produced a printable card in about 10 seconds, enabling the user to walk without a phone and reflect on the experience.
Workflow
- 1. Open the Field Card web app on the laptop.
- 2. Enter location, type of place, duration, and companions.
- 3. The app builds a prompt and calls the local Ollama model (gemma3:4b).
- 4. The model returns a JSON card with title, intro, bring, notice, phone_rule, on_the_way_back.
- 5. The browser renders the card and hides the form via CSS.
- 6. Click the print button to print or save as PDF.
- 7. Close the laptop and go for the walk.
Evidence
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 a one-page card: a few things to bring, a checklist of things to find, one rule for the phone, and a question to think about on the way home. Then I print it and close the laptop.
Everything runs on your laptop through Ollama: no account, no API key, no internet needed after setup.
The checklist is the part I like. The items sound like "something that rustles when the wind moves it". They describe color, shape, sound or behavior, never a name, so you don't need to know any plants or birds.
The app is a small Flask server with one page. The page collects the form and sends it to the server, which builds a prompt and calls Ollama's chat endpoint with gemma3:4b.
Printing is just CSS. A print stylesheet hides the form and buttons, switches to black on white, and draws the checkboxes as empty squares. The button opens the normal Windows print window, so you can also save a PDF for your phone. On my laptop, writing a card took about 10 SECONDS.
I printed a card for a 30-minute walk, put the phone in my bag, and went to the park near my house. The card had six things to find.
- Record date: 2026-10-17T09:56:18.186Z