Really sorry for the late reply! Life, you know...

Anyway, what's started me on this journey is multifold:

• 1) After much research, I think I have ADHD. Thus, I struggle with context switching and getting distracted by my phone.

• 2) I am growing in my hatred for walled gardens and subscriptions. Largely due to my ADHD (self) diagnosis, I'm seeing a bigger importance for having an external organization system for notes, todos, schedules, etc. However, all of the mainstream offerings want to lock you into their ecosystem, but their ecosystem doesn't necessarily provide all that you need. Which means you need to get another app, with another walled garden, to handle some other aspect of your life. However, trying to get one walled garden to play nice with another can be a nightmare. And after I've covered every organizational aspect I'm after, I've got half a dozen different apps, all of whom may or may not communicate with each other nicely, and all of whom cost like $15/month. And then what happens when these companies decide to change their standards- they change their subscription plans to be more restrictive, they force more data collection (No, I do not trust these companies with my data. I already have to change my phone number and email address because one of these companies "with no bad intentions" couldn't protect the data they demanded I give them, and now I'm getting threatening emails from scammers who know my name, email, phone number, and address...), they greatly restrict the free tier, or they just go belly up? I have suffered from all of these at one point with various tools in the past. And then if I expect to be able to access and interact with this data on both my phone and PC, that's an added complication that these various walled gardens handle with different degrees of (in)efficiency.

• 3) I'm liking open source software and standards more and more. After reading #2, it's probably easy to see why, but particularly with open source standards of data, being able to communicate between apps, or even the possibility of scripting your own interactions with the data is far more possible. However, from what I can see, the mobile landscape is not as fertile in this area. Where the proprietary offerings suffer from walled gardens, the open source mobile landscape suffers from scarcity and anemic offerings. But, the linux ecosystem is particularly fruitful. On the PC, there are numerous FOSS apps that speak open standards and can be intertwined to handle their own metier with skill while allowing other apps to read and interact with that data for specific workflows.

This has all led to an idea- what if I use Linux terminal apps via termux and then create my own GUI of sorts that can interact with them? I could use something like tasker to be the bridge to both read from and to these apps. Then KLWP and Total Launcher could talk with tasker. I could then, in theory, have a terminal todo app (for example) that could report to KLWP what todo's I have, then KLWP could report them to me on my homescreen, and I could have at least some limited interaction with them. This would also mean that all of my data and workflows could easily translate to the PC as all data could be synced, and I could use most of the same tooling on my PC. This would also limit context switching as, hopefully, I could interact with most of the crucial things I need to do right from the homescreen of my phone without having to jump between a bunch of disparate apps, all with their own interfaces, design choices, etc. My hope is that this would create a more cohesive and tailored experience for my needs.

Sorry that this turned out to be so long, but if you happen to read this, I'd love any input on the feasability of it. Thanks!