Anyone using or working on a life dashboard?

Like many others, I have looked at the subproblem of whole-life scheduling and concluded that it can't be done well. On the one hand, a scheduling system has to implement a simple model or the overhead of working with it makes its net value negative. On the other hand, you have to deal with the fractal complexity of real life situations and priorities all the way down, and no simple model can represent it all accurately.

Felix Krause did: https://howisfelix.today/?

HN search will also pull up several prior discussions.

It's a nice idea in theory but ultimately I don't think it agrees with what being human is.

I have a private WordPress site with many of these things, including:

- A countdown to various events in the future (end of the quarter, next birthday, age 50, etc.) as a kind of "memento mori"

- Tracking money spent, food consumed, etc.

- A custom system that displays random items that I add to Anki every day. I explained this more in a comment from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35211448

The data collection is pretty basic and just uses a form plugin to input and display data. I use other tools for to-dos, but I'm looking into a to-do plugin to replicate something similar.

I've been building towards something like this with Conjure[0].

I've focused more on metrics, behavior, and achievement, with a rules engine for automatically completing habits and goals off those.

As you identified, the biggest obstacle for users has been the friction and overhead of tracking at scale. Integrations and automations have decreased that a lot. Transforming unstructured input through AI is super promising, and probably will make it more accessible to people who are less of the power-user/productivity-junkie persona type.

[0] https://conjure.so

I have used this previously when tracking health metrics and I couldn't much else that had integrations. https://exist.io/

I'm working on something like this actively, would love to chat and find out a bit more about what you're looking for. Looking to launch a small pre-alpha test in the coming weeks.

Seems like it would benefit from some kind of standard protocol. Perhaps just and extension of RSS feeds or the like? A life dashboard seems like it would just be a feed reader.

I wrote some notes about this of what I want in my "life engine":

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas#5-life-engine

I never got into the quantified self but I did want a portal (such as similar to the Yahoo! and Excite.com days) in the early 2000s. of personal facts that I can take actions on.

Then a few years later I wrote about "life situational awareness apps"

I want my phone and desktop computer system tray to have widgets for "accommodation", "travel", "food". I didn't want to have to open a website or app to order food, stay in a hotel or travel, just select what I'm eating/sleeping/travelling from a slideout menu and all the details are worked out by the computer.

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas3#59-life-indicators---sit...

(It was related to my lifestyle subscriptions idea that you can pay for a week or month of travel, acommodation or food) and you receive it seamlessly https://lifestyle-subscriptions.com

I did write a question generator feed dashboard written in Electron that let you snap in data collectors that would let you save records of stock purchases and facts about yourself such as your salary. The idea is that you could get advice based on what you answer.

https://github.com/samsquire/living-documents

https://github.com/samsquire/living-documents-library (the app repository)

Unfortunately it's probably not buildable and I forgot to take screenshots or videos.

here's me provisoning questions in the database:

https://github.com/samsquire/living-documents/blob/master/pr...

Something like this?

https://github.com/k0rventen/apple-health-grafana

I've thought about this for years at this point. But I haven't compiled all my thoughts into a coherent system. So I can't share anything with substance :/ It's just a dump for bullet points as of now. Also, I'm not a technical person (yet).

I haven't looked into Org mode, but this might include all you (we) need.