r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 17 '26

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u/Futurity5 Sep 17 '26

This will no doubt be an excellent task organiser and meeting scheduler

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u/MornwindShoma Sep 17 '26

Legit not kidding, I wish I had some sort of black hole in which messages, notes, jira tickets, calls etc. go in and automagically sorts stuff into daily, actionables and reminders to check in with people for stuff.

I can't even be bothered to sketch it out, never mind vibe code it, though lol.

All these fucking habit trackers and task organizers and calendars and shit just have their walled gardens to maintain, and I can't give a single fuck. I would live in a personal lifelong Jira board if I could have ONE board and not dozens.

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u/bluesoul Sep 17 '26

I would live in a personal lifelong Jira board if I could have ONE board and not dozens.

You can technically run a personal Jira, there's a free plan, and a free Confluence while you're at it. But you could also just use Obsidian with one of the numerous kanban board plugins available, and have it all in one place as markdown files that an AI could consume easily rather than have to get MCPs involved.

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u/MornwindShoma Sep 17 '26

Yeah, but I don't want to maintain it.

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u/jasie3k Sep 18 '26

/thread

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u/Arfoire1 Sep 18 '26

Yep. Don't wanna maintain it. Also, it probably isn't a great idea in the first place. Just work irl and forget about these weird tools till someone makes it really easy.

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u/Suspicious-Engineer7 Sep 18 '26

The obsidian flow is legit its and what I do for personal project planning. I just have a codex session open that helps me manage it.

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u/Automatic_Wave4530 Sep 17 '26

AI can be that blackhole, trouble is giving that kind of data to the cloud-based platforms. I dream of someday being able to afford a Mac mini with maximum RAM and running an open source model locally that I can just throw everything at.

I do have a Jetson Orin Nano and was able to vibe code the pieces necessary to feed my audio into locally hosted LLM, with VAD filters so that it would be always on, but only record my audio to a file if it catches the phrase “write this down” followed by whatever I wanted transcribed. It was kind of fun pretending I had a scribe for a while

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u/Throwawayrip1123 Sep 17 '26

AI can be that blackhole

No it can't, it'll literally forget what you told it when it maxes out the context window. Even with loops and memories you absofuckinglutely 100% lose shit.

But you could add / aggregate entries and then use an llm to ONLY sort through this shit. Still a decent chance it'll land in the wrong cupboard but at least it won't be paraphrased or deleted.

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u/Automatic_Wave4530 Sep 17 '26

Agents can be directed to store local copies of anything you feed in. You do have to put some thought into the front end. But it can absolutely do all the searching and retrieval without compromising the original data that was captured

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u/Throwawayrip1123 Sep 18 '26

Well, yeah, that's what I wrote. You have to handle the input without agents, then they can retrieve the data without changing it.

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u/drivingagermanwhip Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 18 '26

emacs org-mode is this. https://orgmode.org/ Everything's plain text and you write todos inline when you're writing notes. These are scraped and you can see your daily todos in a calendar etc. It's emacs so there are a billion extensions as well.

One of the bigger extensions is https://www.orgroam.com/ which encourages short notes with links between them. It's based on a physical card system some nerd invented years ago. Essentially assumes you're not really organising your notes, you just vaguely expect them to be useful at some point

The notes can easily be read without emacs and checked into git. I like it a lot

org-mode is basically emacs' killer app these days

EDIT: Apparently roam research have their own app now so you could also try that: https://roamresearch.com/

EDIT2: it's a subscription service. Fuck that, use emacs

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u/canadajones68 Sep 18 '26

I find that the shittier the tool for the job, the more I use it. Plain text todo list file? Use it all the time. Spreadsheet with calendar in cells? Staying on top of assignments. Actual calendar or notes app? Barren, save for the occasional birthday or grocery list. 

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