always-on AI assistant
an AI that always listens and transcribes, acting as a 24/7 personal assistant. could be $2/day and totally worth it. it transcribes, answers questions, notes good ideas, remembers people. "defs just jacob's thing but better and applied to more things."
the discord implementation: an always-on bot in a voice channel (works when phone is off), running claude code with context (USER.md) and connections. critical requirement: needs to know when to respond and when not to — some "hey alexa" activation tech. it hears everything but only responds when addressed, so you can ask "what was I just talking about before mentioning xyz?"
hardware variants include: a magsafe block that records meetings and connects to integrations, and an AI on a smartwatch that integrates with any phone/computer with strong memory and document access.
referenced: Omnara (Claude Code desktop/mobile client), pika.me, claude dispatch. the connection from phone to computer should be super easy. connects to the brain rewinder (the assistant IS the memory device), axon (the memory infrastructure), and life search (querying everything the assistant has captured).
spreadsheet evaluation: excitement 5/10. the spreadsheet notes this as "defs just jacob's thing but better and applied to more things" — transcribes, answers questions, notes good ideas, remembers people. could be $2/day and totally worth it. choose days for it to be on/off. the smartwatch variant (tech depth 9/10) labeled [WRONG FIT] ("hardware + OS level work — way too big for 2 months"). the voice assistant variant (tech depth 6/10) labeled [ARCHIVE] ("huge scope, commoditizing fast").
timeline
- [2026-03-14] always-listening transcription concept — "$2 a day but totally worth"
- [2026-03-28] smartwatch variant — complete AI with document access
- [2026-04-02] discord bot implementation — voice channel, activation detection
- [2026-04-03] magsafe recording block variant
- [2026-04-10] google sheets evaluation — 5/10 excitement, smartwatch [WRONG FIT], voice assistant [ARCHIVE]