nowify

Check it out on GitHub.

Time-management is hard. So I delegated the hard parts to a computer program.

nowify runs my life.

Every morning, I up start nowify and it guides me through my day: “what am I supposed to be doing now?”

nowify counts every second. If I forget about nowify, it yells at me.

Here’s the general logic:

• Prompt the user with the highest priority routine from the queue. Routines usually occur daily or hourly.
  • If “skip” is selected, prompt this routine again in 40 minutes.
  • If “done” is selected on a repeated routine, prompt again in 60 minutes.
  • If “done” is selected on a non-repeated routine, prompt again tomorrow.
  • If the routine takes more than N minutes, start beeping.
  • If “not-done” is selected, start the beep timer again in N minutes.

Because humans change more often than computer programs, there are meta-routines to update the routines:

• “What parts of life have been neglected? Adjust routine priorities.”
• “What routines are frequently being skipped? Ask spouse for advice.”

Very simple. Very effective.