Inboxes dashboard

Post-mortem / reflection:

The idea was to hold myself accountable to build wisdom by logging hours in various buckets. This was too overwhelming to look at: I don't really want to see every thought from the last 6 months. Instead, I want to follow my curiosity, and get out of my own way. There's a convenience and relief to how old thoughts just slide out of the brain.

March 8th, 2020

• I want a Inboxes Dashboard for thinking.
• Goal workflow: look at it, pick a thing to "write", and be on my way. Without having to open my computer in the morning.
• Not to build: sparklines of all my thinking, worldviews, values, whatever. Not useful to see progress. Just inboxes.
• Not to build: reading inbox.
• To build: outlines, outlines inbox, writing inbox, questions. Maybe turtle questions?
• MVP: all of these windows, in parallel, on my RPi.
Prototype it here
• Hard to look at, and would want more randomness.
Then go build it!!

February 25th, 2020

• If I had a dashboard, what would I use it for? If it doesn't change much, I won't look at it.

Problems

• I'm not achieving my goals quickly enough.
• I'm not putting in the actual hours. Having this dashboard will make me more aware of the literal number of hours invested.
• The wisdom I am accumulating is not visible.
• I don't think deeply enough about the things that are most important to me.
• I don't make connections between the things I learn and read every day with my biggest goals and directions.
• My QS dashboard isn't an effective gut check: it's just "do I gut-level feel like I'm on track here?" isn't based in reality.

Dashboard

• Top level:
• Inputs: attention towards each life area, compared to goal allocation ranges.
• Outputs: progress towards next goals in each area
• And underneath that:
• Inboxes. Feeling: confidence (that I'm not dropping the ball), acceptance.
• accumulating wisdom. Feeling: satisfaction, curiosity.
• {{[[TODO]]}} Roam queries, with all of my recent readings?
• Outlines and their size?
• Mechanically, this would be a different space on my Mac desktop.
• When I don't update for weeks, it should be fine - there shouldn't be a pile of TODOs when I'm back.
• Elements