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Ask HN: Personal Operating System?
Hey HN,
My master’s thesis at Georgia Tech revolves around building a modular, extensible software system that helps you be more productive while learning - I.e it has modules that generate flash cards, internal notes/documentation search, track note taking and performance.
I’ve been thinking this level of comprehensive habit/value/performance tracking and the corresponding prediction could be applied to many parts of our lives.
As an extension to this, I can imagine an Alexa like system but more domain focused, on productivity or finance or health, that really allows you to apply the same level of analysis and modeling to your life that we do in our businesses/work.
What do you think? Is there something like this out there that I can use?
- howard941 7y agoI like it and wish I had something like this when I was in college and grad school. In retrospect a hypercard-ish sort of system would have worked for the flash card element but I'm not sure how to integrate it with the other bits into a coherent whole. Happy hunting on your thesis!
- jmhnilbog 7y agoDon't people at least like to pretend they have free will and are not automatons responding mechanically to biological prompts? Are the prompts somehow acceptable if they appear on a screen?
- ksaj 7y agoA while back someone posted about the Janki system. I already use a similar system, rather like the additional insight offered here, and will be giving some of these ideas a try. It sounds relevant to your quest: https://www.jackkinsella.ie/articles/janki-method-refined https://www.jackkinsella.ie/articles/janki-method-refined