I'm finally starting to see the storm clouds clear from my life, and with their departure, I have enough breathing room to start thinking about projects again. There are currently three that I want to work on; two web apps and another thing more ... grandiose. First the simple stuff:
Web app one: a humane planner and goal management system. This would implement my interpretation of Covey's 4th generation scheduler, as outlined in 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. In his scheme, tasks are organized in terms of roles and goals, and then plotted in 2-space, with one axis for importance and another for urgency.
Web app two: a tool for collecting objective data about yourself. Basically a way to collect and plot data points for things like mood / recurring events / physical attributes and so-on. Using it, people could discover and manage trends in their own lives. I have a domain for this one: youmetrics.com.
The next big thing: this is potentially bottomless, but let's just start with a manifesto:
All of my devices, data, and software should be readily available in the cloud; the cloud should be implemented using network connections / hardware in my physical control.
For the sake of discussion, let's call this project the CloudKit; a set of tools and standards to allow individuals and small groups to setup and manage their own clouds on commodity hardware with residential internet connections. I'll write more about this one later.
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