I’m starting to “un-ui” my daily work. I spun my wheels multiple times trying to build a sophisticated dashboard. The flashy pictures of people creating these work stations and hubs to display and track all of their work was so attractive.
Maybe I was getting too clever and trying to do too much. Specifically, I was really pushing to see what I could do with WordPress as this OS layer for all of my work and connecting AI. I might have gotten a little too clever sometimes even.
I actually built something really cool, and I do like it. I even figured out with AI how to build an in-place editing experience with Gutenberg that saves directly back to the markdown files on my laptop. Heck, I made a task manager, all in WordPress, and I have designs for an interactive graph. My goal was to make Obsidian and Notion with WordPress Studio. It worked, and I have a memory layer and LLM wiki that is growing.
It’s all in the background now. I don’t do any daily work in that system. Why do I even need to? The more intricate I started to make the OS and ui, the more I have started reverting back to low-fi task management and work. Everything is getting tracked, saved, and updated all in that background layer, but I’m literally spending my days chatting and checking items off in a Claude Doc (you can do it with GPT’s pages too).
My ui is starting to disappear. I am inside of the Claude and GPT desktop apps, so there is that harness I’m working within, but that’s a bit different. My actual work is just happening in conversations.
This process might evolve again. I’m sure it will. In fact, that’s actually exciting to me. The fun part is testing and iterating on processes. The outcome is better workflows for me no matter what.
All this is to say, you don’t need to have an overhyped, flashy Jarvis or command center, unless you want it.
Do what works for you. All the power is at our fingertips to create anything that helps us individually. Share it with others, but go make something cool, for yourself.
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