Augmented Awareness

A few years ago, I embarked on a personal project pompously titled "Augmented Awareness." It has since evolved into a versatile life management system.

It tracks various aspects of your life, including:

• Prescription medications and their intakes, as it was designed for recovery during the COVID pandemic.

• Pomodoro timers to help manage my focus and time effectively.

• Calendar events and tasks, from Google Calendar.

• Computer, device, and web usage, through ActivityWatch.

• Positive and Negative Habits, which I track in Loop Habit Tracker (available on the Play Store).

• Notable entries from my diary, including daily, weekly, and monthly retrospectives, which lives in Obsidian.

• Budget tracking and expenses, importing CSV and PDFs from my banks and credit card companies.

Each of the mentioned items supports tagging, either natively or through hashtags in text fields.

It performs relatively simple time series analysis to identify recurring patterns and scheduling errors.

I'm embarking on a design refresh to transform my current system into one inspired by robotic and agentic AI approaches. My goal is to create a tool that can assist me in living a more fulfilling life. Along the way, I aim to address a few flaws in my current design. The most significant issue is that the system requires constant attention to operate and remain functional, which is counterproductive, because it generates the most value when I have the least amount of attention.

The next iteration will focus on ambient computing principles, incorporating IoT devices and sensors as primary interfaces. It will adopt a design inspired by robots and AI agents to seamlessly blend into everyday life. It also will work as a complement and aid, rather than a replacement, for living every moment with mindfulness.