I and my friend work on similar project. lets connect!

[Awannaphasch2016]

My friend is working on pen.el project. https://github.com/semiosis/pen.el

we have discord here. https://discord.gg/g4Wn2gAJ

lets have a chat and trade our ideas. may be we can work together!.

[meedstrom]

I log in to Discord about once a year, but I'll drop in to brainstorm with you when I better understand your project and what it can do. Thanks for reaching out!

With Eva, before I resume coding, I want to go "back to the drawing board", because I feel that some insight is missing. A useful perspective came from asking myself what a virtual assistant should do for an user with BIMFH (adult ADHD, which I may or may not have, but it looks likely to help everyone):

• Do "beecatching": quickly and frictionlessly absorb information about the user's current thoughts and distractions, throughout the day. Maybe by acting as a confessor via prompts (where Pen could help), and/or by inferring from computer activity. I'm thinking this information would be mapped to some loose concept of projects, of which Eva could generate new ones automatically depending on wording.
• Expire stale projects to save on the user's spoons (the mental energy needed to admit that the projects are stale and clean them up)
• Cooperatively start the user on projects -- instead of simply scheduling reminders, which to a BIMFH sufferer is like scheduling putting their hand on a frying pan. Reminders can make this sort of person just drop the system altogether. Instead, maybe Eva would do a little interaction where the user picks from a small list of options or supplies their own option, then follows their activity for a while to check that they've really begun working. This is another place Pen could help. When the user does not work on the stated project, Eva would react without judgment, no "Back to work!" attitude but more of a therapist's "what are you thinking about?". Aside from the immediate benefit of making the user self-aware in the moment, prompting braindumps from the user at crucial moments like these could prove very useful later when they talk to a real therapist.

[xeruf]

I currently run https://activitywatch.net for tracking all computer activities, but never get around to reviewing its stats - maybe something sensible to integrate?
I actively use Stretchly and a self-written script called netkeeper to limit my internet access and nudge me to use my time on the computer intentionally, though I am not completely satisfied with this combination yet.

Oh, and AI has become very useful within the recent years, maybe it is time to make the assistant actually intelligent :)