The hard part of any smart automation system, and probably 95% of the UX is timing and managing the prompts/notifications you get. It can do as much as it want

The hard part of any smart automation system, and probably 95% of the UX is timing and managing the prompts/notifications you get. It can do as much as it wants in the background turning that into timely and non-intrusive actionable behaviours is extremely challenging. I spent a long time thinking about a global notification consumption system that would parse all desktop, mobile, email, slack, web app, etc notifications into a single stream and then intelligently organizes it with adaptive timing and focus streams. The cross platform nature made it infeasible but it was a fun thought experiment because we often get repeated notifications on every different device/interface and most of the time we just zone it out cuz it’s overload. Adding a new nanny to your desktop is just going to pile it on even more so you have to be careful.