habits and productivity

the second most recurring theme: systems for making yourself more effective through habit formation, reminders, and automation. the universal habits idea is the center of gravity — a context-aware system that knows when and how to remind you of behaviors you want to reinforce.

Pause was built and shipped as the simplest instantiation. the personal IFTTT provides the automation backbone. invoking/imprinting thoughts pushes into emotional-sensory territory for deeper habit encoding. the life planning app and task scheduler handle the planning layer. cookedness tracker and anti-scrolling tool are specific intervention points.

the key unsolved problem: how to remind yourself of mindset habits ("think of other perspectives") that cannot be externally triggered — this is where sensory memory replay becomes interesting.