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It was started as a pet project with no plans regarding its future. As it turned out, recent hype around AI, personal assistants, privacy and wearables created some interest around such type of projects. It is definitely going to be OSS, if we decide to publish it. I see no other way to make it transparent and secure, also people who are ready to provide full access to their accounts and location to third party service aren't target audience =)

Very interesting. My main concern is that such systems should suit their owners very well. But, of course, everyone has their own preferences regarding task management, time tracking, app ecosystems, usage patterns etc. Consequently, it is very hard to make a single open source project that fits everyone.

Me and my friend were working on a very similar project for the last 10 months, and we still hesitate to publish it (also, it is written in Scala, thus limiting potential audience). Below, I provide more information about our work, some insights discovered during development, and future plans. I hope it could help other projects too.

The project is focused on outsourcing memory, providing smooth, most of the time automatic, time-tracking, being hackable and keeping personal data private.

Key features needed for that are different integrations (we use JIRA, Trello, Hubstaff, Trakt.tv, Apple Health, sleepasandroid, Beddit); constant location tracking; convenient input (currently, Telegram bot with NLP capabilities, suggestions and autocompletion).

Eventually, it turned out, that chatbot interface works like a charm for actions like forwarding links to read them later, managing tasks in JIRA (when chatbot sends you updates, and then you can use your messenger to comment on or manage tickets; also works well with time-tracking), aggregating notifications.

We also have some analytics: daily briefs, time tracking summaries, metric-based reports. Another features include global search, flashbacks, GPX track export (to use with Lightroom, for example), history-based notifications. Future plans include: finance tracking, delivery tracking, ReSpeaker integration, newsfeed aggregation.

I am really concerned about where the whole mac train goes.

It is so clear they did not consider touch-typists when they designed touch bar. They could have used textured glass to cover it, or aligned its keys to 0-9 row, or added haptic feedback, or at least kept 2 options for keyboard as they did with 13 inch model.

Seeing Craig Federighi when he tried his best to show the demo was hilarious. Is it how they see professionals working in the next decade? It turned out that Microsoft has better understanding of it. At least is see Surface Dial being used.

I can cover that ugly "MacBook Pro" branding by duct tape. I can buy dongles for SD/HDMI and magsafe-like USB-C cable. But... the whole story of giving up on professionals seems to be unforgettable.

I thought they will align touch bar buttons to 0-9. At least, this way power users had a chance.