A useful personal agent
I started building a useful personal agent. What makes it useful is that it runs on my computer, but this immediately raises concerns about data exfiltration. I use Apple reminders (among other things) to organise my life so I had it write a little script to be able to interact with those, which works great. One of the main things I want help with is getting a handle on my chaotic piles of todos. They are scattered all over the place and all mixed up. Part of the problem with my current system is that aspirational things are mixed up with hard deadlines, so on busy or unpredictable weeks things that aren’t essential just pile up and stay there and then the “today” list just keeps rolling everything over until there are dozens of things on it, which I couldn’t possibly get done in a single day if I tried. And then I’m just mentally keeping tabs on what is actually important or on a real deadline, which defeats the purpose of the system. […2 min read]