focus

Track focus. Move seamlessly between the goals of your life, and keeping your mind only on the context necessary to you at that point.

Features

Define

• long-term priorities,
• attentional stack

Record

• Immediate breaches
• Future intentions
  • Classified according to Getting Things Done-style 1) purpose 2) outcome vision 3) brainstorm 4) organize 5) next steps

Review

• Thoughts and intentions over time

Focus

• Track which goals you're focusing on at any point in time

Graphical Conceptualization

"Tree" / "Garden"

• Inputs as roots
  • Describe root structure, track nourishment (flow from roots to trunk) and droughts
  • Base of tree - your happiness / effectiveness
  • Roots - things that contribute to your happiness effectiveness
    • E.g. physical fitness
    • Social life
• Outputs as fruits
  • Describe intentions (flowers) and achievements (fruit)
• You are your own tree, but you also may represent others (organizations, companies, projects) as trees
• Set parts of your tree as public so that friends can visit yours and help you out

UI

• / - Home
• /tree/+ - New tree
• /tree/me - Your tree (add roots [inputs], branches [outputs])

Schema

type HistoricalStatus {
	status: Status
	time: String // ISO Date
}

type Status {
	current: String
	history: [HistoricalStatus]
}

interface Node {
	name: String
	description: String
	status: Status
	path: String // position in tree (relationship to other `name`s)
	privacyCircle: Number // -1: public, 0: shared with friends, 1: private
	degradationSpeed: Number //
	health: Number // 0-100% showing "health" of this node
}

type Input implements Node {
	...Node
	nourishments: [Nourishment]
	droughts: [Drought]
}

type Output implements Node {
	...Node
	flowers: [Flower]
	fruits: [Fruit]
}

type Tree {
	name: String
	inputs: [Input]
	output: [Output]
}

type Query {
	trees: [Tree]
}

type Mutation {
	tree: TreeMutations
}

schema Schema {
	query: Query
}

Thoughts

Introspection

• Which tasks can you use music to help? (Executional vs analysis)
• How do you decide between priorities at a moment in time?
  • Utilize different emotional states for different activities
    • E.g. Sad, lonely, happy, energized, thoughtful
  • Use different days or habits to fit priorities together

Exposition

• Expose to your friends what your emotional state is and how your goals can fit together
  • Find people with similar issues
  • Find people with similar emotional states

Technical Roadmap

• Create SVG React Components to represent nodes etc - linkable?
• Create basic component that does graphql query for the data
  • Create links with actions
    • Feeling (emoji -> stuck, happy, sad, overwhelmed)
    • Thought (what? recorded at current timestamp)
    • Intention (what? when? (today / soon / someday))

Node Types

• Inputs

• Outputs

• Node

  • "Health" (outcome tracking)
    • Quantitative (0:100%) [User setting custom scale factors, 0:32, -100:100]
    • Qualitative
    • Osmotic (speed of absorption, calculation (sum child roots))
  • Thoughts
    • Ideas/notes over time
  • Intentions
    • Ideas/notes over time

• Sun & soil - external factors in growth/mood to watch out for

• Views

  • Tree (high-level: purpose-outcome-brainstorm)
  • Branch (brainstorm-organize-next steps)

Getting This Done

1. Purpose
   • Make tracking my entire life of goals and projects pleasant, exhaustive, extensible and tractable
2. Outcome visioning
   • Have somewhere to update progress/ideas/organize/next steps for projects and subprojects
   • Maintain a vision of how goals relate to each other
3. Brainstorming
   • Start designing tree / branch views
   • Start working out how tree and branch interact
4. Organize
5. Next Steps
   • Start coding

Design

No idea what it should actually look like, structure-wise.

A purpose is satisfied by outcomes. (Outcomes describe satisfaction criteria.) Outcomes may be split into strings of outcomes. E.g. string. An outcome is achieved using organized brainstorming, resulting in a list of next steps.