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Comment by krobertson | Hacker News Reader

That sounds depressing... who you are summarized down to a status dashboard.

I think the OP's idea is great and can go further. The distinction is between what I am doing/need to do and who I am.

What? I'm talking about glancing at a dashboard in the morning and being able to tell how much money I should or shouldn't be spending, whether I'm on track to hitting a weight goal and be reminded to watch what I eat, if my afternoon is free to hang with friends, if there are any events of interest in the area, if I've got any important to-do's, etc, etc.

The point is it's all updated in real-time. We've got the services and biosensors to do it. Now it's just a matter of integrating it all together.

Hardly depressing.

Yeah, that sounds amazing. You'd have to integrate with a lot of services that don't necessarily expose APIs, though. Well come to think of it, most of them do.

Seriously, this is one of the most interesting software ideas I've heard in a long time, and I don't usually get excited about productivity software. Do it.

Hey now, don't dehumanize yourself! A dashboard of your life could summarize the boring, fiddly details that you have to keep track of -- budget, to-do items, reminders, package tracking, whatever -- so that you can stop wasting time thinking about them. You are more interesting than your credit card bill, or your list of upcoming events, and automating that crap would almost certainly be a net win for you as a person. Or me, for that matter.

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