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The Architecture of My Life

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Re: The Architecture of My Life

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Post by fao_ »

Ah, interesting! I had a similar architecture planned for my own automation software a long while back, it's nice and validating to see that other people had the idea too! :)

Re: The Architecture of My Life

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Post by Pampleti »

I'm really really curius if those things make a real difference.

I have very mixed feelings between 'i want to have nice little automations like this' and 'i don't need them at all'

Does it help to keep your mind free when you have it like this?

Does it help you because you are not good in those things?

Like take the cleaning thing as an example: i wanted to do a yearly calendar for a while where i finetune my things i have to do over the year which would allow me to fine tune this calendar (which includes eating plan, cleaning plan, personal hygiene plan) vs. i have my life under control anyway.

Lets take an easy example: birthday of my wife, having a calendar entry a few weeks before allows me to do a restaurant reservation. Knowing the holidays its allows me to order a tree in time. Having an calendar entry in summer allows me to organize a winter holiday in time.

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Post by ptato »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #5

Is 98 minutes of music in a year meant to represent "a lot of music"? Or was this meant to say hours?

The author's name sounds something like Dutch or Swedish to me. Most european countries use dots to separate the thousands, and commas to separate decimals.

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Post by teraku »

Pampleti wrote: post #4

I'm really really curius if those things make a real difference. I have very mixed feelings between 'i want to have nice little automations like this' and 'i don't need them at all' Does it help to keep your mind free when you have it like this? Does it help you because you are not good in those things? Like take the cleaning thing as an example: i wanted to do a yearly calendar for a while where i finetune my things…

Mixed feelings. I'm not huge into this direct life automation, but I do automatically download most of my data from 3rd party platforms, including banking data, expenses, documents I scan on my phone (i. e. letters) and load them onto my NAS. I then have automated scripts that categorize, catalogue and index the data. For only very few of them I look at the data specifically, but it just makes me feel at ease to a) know it's there and b) know it's organized and I don't have to do it.
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