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Precisely this. Beyond that, we need opportunity tracking. Often, there is a very small window in progress can be made on a task. It could be an unique event,
by miguelrochefort 11y ago
Precisely this.
Beyond that, we need opportunity tracking. Often, there is a very small window in progress can be made on a task. It could be an unique event, a recurring event, a time of day, access to a resource, etc.
- Buy milk when you're near milk
- Talk to John when you're near John
- Tan when they sun is bright
- Catch the train in the next 5 minutes otherwise you'll wait an hour for the next
You can't make a cake if you never have all the ingredients together at once. Synchronization is extremely important. Your basic to-do list lacks the awareness of the world to make you and others more productive.
This is a general problem that deserves a general solution.
- Chris2048 11y agoIt's be interesting for a company like google to tackle this, e.g. "Your Todo item suggests you are wanting to bake a cake soon? You hovered over a cake recipe using vanilla pods. The store nearby stocks Foo brand vanilla pods for $12..." Maybe a little too complex though ;-D
- miguelrochefort 11y agoMost likely, you just want a cake and don't care to bake it. A big obstacle to collaboration and global productivity is the assumption that it is cheaper/better to make something yourself rather than purchase it. It couldn't be further from the truth. An expert baker will bake cheaper and better cakes than I ever could. > Maybe a little too complex though ;-D It is more important than it is complex. Humanity has waited long enough, it's time we take that step.
- kaitai 11y agoA lot of us enjoy the process: it's fun baking the cake, making the robot, playing with the laser cutter. That's what hacking encompasses -- the play, not just the end product. And most expert bakers around here don't make the kinds of cakes I like. Way cheaper/better to whip one up in 20 minutes than spend hours trying to find a catering service that will use the right recipe (or an improvement) and then someone who will deliver it. The recipe: http://www.thevintagemixer.com/2013/03/tarta-de-santiago-recipe-a-spanish-almond-cake-from-spain/ http://www.thevintagemixer.com/2013/03/tarta-de-santiago-rec...
- JadeNB 11y ago> An expert baker will bake cheaper and better cakes than I ever could. An expert baker can bake better and (possibly) cheaper cakes, but it is not necessarily in his or her interest to do so. It may be more practical to make the worst cakes that will sell, and then sell them for as much as the market can bear. (For example, McDonald's employs expert chefs.)
- VladimirGolovin 11y agoI'm working on a todo app that will address this via automatically-activated contexts. For example, you could have a task which has "@work & @near:Bob" in its Contexts field, and it will appear in your list when the both conditions are met. (The app currently has all the infrastructure for such contexts, however I'm not yet sure about how to implement person proximity triggers in particular).
- Chris2048 11y agoIs this public yet?