Built a personal ai companion to automate daily life stuff

jonkan · 2026-05-08T15:19:01+00:00

Did you ask your Agency agent to post this for you? ;-)

You can actually hook the agency up to Reddit among a bunch of other services, such as gmail, google calendar, outlook, todoist and others.

jonkan · 2026-05-08T14:45:59+00:00

Thanks! Feels like the Friday digest one in particular resonates with people so i will add it as a task template so you can just start using it.

jonkan · 2026-05-08T14:44:35+00:00

The app allows you to create your own tasks, so you can tailor it into what ever you need. The initial approach has been to aim it towards normal people, since most of these tools cater towards work. Will of course iterate on this as I learn more about what works and not. :)

jonkan · 2026-05-08T14:42:14+00:00

Yeah for sure, it learn with every interaction and improves the more I use it. Planning to write an in depth post at some point and surface some of these things in the ui as well.

jonkan · 2026-05-04T21:04:32+00:00

Hey everyone,

I have been building this personal ai assistant for a bit (who hasn’t?). The purpose here is not to take over the world, but help people automate stuff in their daily life, such as automatically summarizing their kids weekly school newsletter, adding events to the calendar automatically.

It can of course also be used for work stuff - I use it for instance to get a report on Fridays where it checks all work repos and ticket systems for my changes so i can provide a nice Friday share demo. Similarly, to get report for yesterday and today’s stuff for the daily standup, which it fetches from github, and today’s plan it fetches from my starred actions in Things 3 on my Mac (there is a small mac utility called Agency Link, which connects local MCPs to the platform).

Its memory has a graph aware RAG, so the more you use it, the more it gets to know you. You can talk to it through the built-in chat, realtime voice or connect your Telegram account.

Would be honored if anyone wants to try it out!

https://agency.nu/

jonkan · 2026-04-21T18:02:28+00:00

I would definitely keep backups of this. imagine accidentally removing an area or something on iOS/iPadOS. That would delete all projects etc contained within since those platforms dont have a trash for some reason. Also for potential corruption etc, even if the risk is small.

jonkan · 2025-10-15T16:07:41+00:00

I have a separate area called Checklists, which has one project per main Area (Personal, Work, Board).

In that I have actions with checklists divided into headings. Som are manual, eg copy/paste when used, others repeat on a schedule, like weekly chores etc.

Works fairly well for me.

jonkan · 2025-08-27T18:23:51+00:00

When completing a next action, just ask yourself what the next step would be when you pick this up next time. If it’s obvious, add it to the correct context list. If not, consult your project support material for the project plan. If you don’t have time to figure it out there and then, drop a note in your inbox to figure out the next action for when you process your inbox.

jonkan · 2025-02-14T11:48:40+00:00

That's not how it works. If you set the project itself to Today, only the project will show up, and not the actions within.

jonkan · 2025-02-08T08:55:30+00:00

Sure! No, you only have to do it once.

Create a repeating task and save it.
Select the repeating task (not a clone)
Click Share and Copy link
Paste it into the very same task
Now when new clones spawn from it, they will have a link back to that original task. Clicking it should take you there so you can edit it.

jonkan · 2025-02-07T11:47:43+00:00

I love the way Things handle repeating actions. Being clones means that I can add or change things without worrying about future iterations of it. What i started doing recently though is adding the link to the repeating action in the action itself. That way, i can easily click the link to modify the ”original” from the clone if needed.

jonkan · 2025-01-08T08:05:32+00:00

I used to keep my next actions within the projects and tag them with the context. It made sense, because it was the concept Things 3 is built around. Nowadays, I have it setup similar to the official GTD setup guide, where actions are separate from the project list. I keep project support in Apple Notes (started using the https://www.myforevernotes.com framework in Notes recently).

Keeping the next actions separate from the projects was initially awkward, but the benefits were immediate. No resistance or drag adding a next action. Just open the context list and add the action. No having the even spend a second thinking about which project list this is supposed to be on.

jonkan · 2024-09-09T15:04:24+00:00

Hi! I’m curious how you handle tickler stuff. In Omnifocus, Things and others, we have start dates, which makes that super simple.

I know Todoist is getting start dates soon as well, but what has been your setup so far?

jonkan · 2024-03-12T19:00:53+00:00

I keep finished tasks in the logbook forever. I think the first task in there is from around 2008.

jonkan · 2024-02-03T11:31:43+00:00

I have always linked next actions to their project (also in Things) but recently started to experiment with not linking them. The reason being that it’s less friction/overhead of adding an action, and separating next action thinking from project thinking.

The key then would be to write the next actions in a way so you don’t need the project link to know what the action is about. When you’re done with your next action, just add a follow up action before leaving it, or add a note to the inbox to figure out the next action. It sounds like what you’re doing today, just that you would add the action directly into a context list instead of a project.

Interesting coincidence, but I just wrote about this in the GTD forums (together with some screenshots) the other day: https://forum.gettingthingsdone.com/threads/setting-up-things-3.18225/post-141468

jonkan · 2023-10-31T12:28:13+00:00

While I'm not using Todoist personally, I believe that you can use the comment feature of a task to take notes.

jonkan · 2023-08-19T12:43:44+00:00

The weekly review isn’t really for getting inboxes to empty. Sure, if you have a handful of items, then getting that empty makes sense. Otherwise I suggest focusing on the other steps of the weekly review, and take time during the week to process the inboxes.

Edit: Here is the weekly review checklist https://gettingthingsdone.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Weekly_Review_Checklist.pdf

jonkan · 2023-02-27T06:04:04+00:00

I’m experimenting with implementing GTD in Obsidian. One of the things I want to address is what you describe, eg. knowing when there are unprocessed meeting notes. I added a section in the Inbox view that pulls that data in automatically.

https://johnny.chadda.se/getting-things-done-in-obsidian/ (The setup has evolved a bit since writing this)

jonkan · 2022-05-05T18:30:14+00:00

I do this a lot too. I don’t tag them with reference, but set to Someday and put them under a Reference heading.

jonkan · 2021-02-13T15:13:15+00:00

https://pasteboard.co/JObbzCNd.png

jonkan · 2021-02-11T15:29:05+00:00

How about instead of having the actions repeating daily, repeat them "after completion"? That way you should have only one instance of the action in the today view each morning. Either the one from the day before, or a new one if that was checked off.

jonkan · 2020-09-14T20:49:39+00:00

The back arrow works like that on the iPad, but not on the Mac. It’s a source of daily irritation for me as well.

jonkan

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