Thank you for sharing your experience! This also resonates really well with me. Executive function deficit is also a common symptom of ADHD, and I’ve gone through dozens of self-help books or techniques, like atomic habits, journaling, time blocks, pomodoro, hourly logging etc. None of them stick for more than 3 months, and none have substantially changed how I behave. I recently talked with Claude with this issue, and it points out that the habits I’ve been trying to build up require the exact executive function that I’m aiming to enhance, and this easily breaks when the excitement from novelty fades away. Then I started building a journaling app quite similar to what you describe, with some additional features like syncing with my Outlook calendar and helping me automatically block time and reschedule.
I haven’t started implementing the exo-brain part as you described. I’m quite curious how did you organize your daily logs into long term memory for the LLM so that they fit into the LLM’s context window? Do you follow any architecture from relevant research?
(To clarify, I don’t think that I have default poor executive function, but that it is still possible to have yet more. I do think the ups and downs of bipolar make habits harder to establish.)
I don’t have all my logs fit into the context window, they’d never fit. I ask it to load things when relevant, and handle things via search or other scripts for operating over the past. Todo items is more relevant. They technically fit but it’s costly to have a full-context window so I preload only recent and high-priority ones.
My system does have a bunch of offline processing where raw transcripts get mined and parsed in other documents. In one case, there’s two layers of that.
Thank you for sharing your experience! This also resonates really well with me. Executive function deficit is also a common symptom of ADHD, and I’ve gone through dozens of self-help books or techniques, like atomic habits, journaling, time blocks, pomodoro, hourly logging etc. None of them stick for more than 3 months, and none have substantially changed how I behave. I recently talked with Claude with this issue, and it points out that the habits I’ve been trying to build up require the exact executive function that I’m aiming to enhance, and this easily breaks when the excitement from novelty fades away. Then I started building a journaling app quite similar to what you describe, with some additional features like syncing with my Outlook calendar and helping me automatically block time and reschedule.
I haven’t started implementing the exo-brain part as you described. I’m quite curious how did you organize your daily logs into long term memory for the LLM so that they fit into the LLM’s context window? Do you follow any architecture from relevant research?
(To clarify, I don’t think that I have default poor executive function, but that it is still possible to have yet more. I do think the ups and downs of bipolar make habits harder to establish.)
I don’t have all my logs fit into the context window, they’d never fit. I ask it to load things when relevant, and handle things via search or other scripts for operating over the past. Todo items is more relevant. They technically fit but it’s costly to have a full-context window so I preload only recent and high-priority ones.
My system does have a bunch of offline processing where raw transcripts get mined and parsed in other documents. In one case, there’s two layers of that.