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.
  • 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.

2022.02.01

It would be great if nowify could show me a preview of my GitHub notifications when my GitHub routine comes up.

2022.01.28

Some extra tasks:

• move my random files in tasks directory
• create an autocommiter in nowify on startup (just for tasks dir)
• move all the links from my perhaps file into links
• figure out what to do with everything else in perhaps
• automate people list to stay in touch

2022.01.15

Upon startup, it would be cool if nowify ensured that all my stuff was committed/pulled/backed-up.

2022.01.15

I’d like to integrate “don’t break the chain” (The Seinfeld Method) for each routine. Each prompt should show how many consecutive days I’ve kept the routine. I could also publish my stats to taylor.town.

2022.01.10

Current task list:

• create an intermediate “acknowledge back from break” state
• figure out how to make tasks/pomos UNINTERRUPTED . maybe improve timer system? maybe shut off all notifs and create more frequent slack checks?
• life needs chaos! what can i do to spice things up at work or home?
• create a narrative for routines/now.ts – rpg exp points or skill tree or something
• floss
• social stuff – start building a reliable network of people
• calendar: do all meetings have concrete questions and decision-makers?
• regular house maintenance (clean stove, replace filters, etc.)
• career: share achievements, screenshots, kudos?
• add random fun surprises and rewards, like “take a shot” and other chaos
• midday: what did you waste time on today? what pulled you away from your goals? were there any distractions?
• drink olive oil
• add undo (u)
• add weeks calculator to now.ts with daily death check
• review routines list in the context of values and shortness of life – cut all the BS
• i’m not sticking to now.ts later in the day – figure out rascally solution
• print weekly monthly breakdown of log during calibration phase; how many skips, how much time spent, etc ; rascal points
• consider adding skills practice later in the day?
• figure out how to reduce context-switching? maybe 90-minute do-not-disturb sesions? pomodoros?
• add more contextual prompts
• trigger list: https://hamberg.no/gtd
• in the media section, automatically open links
• print 7-day and 30-days stats: average start time, most skipped, most neglected
• add spaced-repetition cards to now.ts instead of cleverdeck
• add non-language spaced-repetition cards to now.ts
• konmari apps, downloads, etc.
• change open-ended questions like “Did you review your goals?” to “Are you meeting your goals? What can you change?”
• check if we’re stocked up on refillables (incense, windex, etc.)
• “does your body feel stretched?” “sijelo sina li pilin sama kiwen ala kiwen?”
• git commit writings repo
• i’m not starting and stopping workday at appropriate times. make a pomodoro work timer or have something that beeps for check-in
• “in a general sense, what am i wasting my life on?”
• purge possessions
• update taysar “Daily Routine.md” essay to match routines.csv
• revise the “spark joy” routine in routines.csv to make it more specific – consider employing randomness
• for each task in task-inbox, remind GTD options (calendarize, trash, delegate, break down, etc.)
• design and create routine for clearing media list and/or pocket
• add call list to now.ts so that it randomly selects a random person ONCE per day using a consistent hashing of the date
• create finance/budget tasks for routines.csv; create method for clearing wish-list
• randomly check “Are you relaxed?” and “Do you have video-game vision?” in routines.csv
• multiple spaced-repetition rounds a day – once every 3 hours? add to routines.csv like “once every 3 hours from 0600-2100”
• ensure all repos are comitted on all computers (actually, automate this)
• integrate “Rules to Live By” into routines (e.g. Unreasonable Constraints)
• clean up and “finish” now.ts
• make a list of skills (e.g. magic tricks); integrate into spaced-repetition (or should that just be sourced from projects?)
• design a plan for moving certain routines like spark-joy and projects-piles to weekends-only or some other less-frequent cadence; implement in now.ts
• design free art routine on a weekly or monthly cadence; implement in now.ts
• design a plan to get through book pile; implement
• add medications (both ends)
• daily language journals (e.g. toki pona)
• figure out how to integrate books into routine
• integrate logarithmic challenges and anti-challenges (e.g. no smoking for a day)
• worry: What is the problem? What are the causes of the problem? What are the possible solutions? What is the best solution?
• soylent as supplement
• clear all app notifications
• integrate wish list
• “17 impossible questions hn”
• make weekly/motnhly experiments
• integrate Media.md into routines or project or something
• “reach out to somebody new” routine is too difficult! make it more concrete and mindless
• schedule buddy time on calendar for all projects
• integrate people.txt
• consider implementing cbt system in now.ts
• think of goals and life and happiness ; remove apps and willpower sinks that will get in the way of a happy life
• add more dopamine hits to routine (esp. beginning of routine)
• integrate blog and writing and organization
• commit writings repo every morning
• track the length of next-personal and next-career and perhaps over time as metrics, and display every morning
• add a program to now.ts that sorts inbox into other compartments with single-characters, and also allows renaming
• grapeful jar
• some days now.ts seems overwhelming ; figure out a way to prevent zero days
• delete firefox and chrome in background whenever now.ts is started

2022.01.07

In the near future, I’ll move all the pending work to this project log.