A few weeks ago I worked with Claude.ai to generate some journaling prompts that were unique to me and my goals. It’s made for some great journaling this month so far.
Today’s prompt and response is one worth sharing as I think it’s something a lot of folks like me would benefit from thinking about and the responses, too, might be helpful for others. These are just the projects from the past month or so. I think this type of question might be a good one to think about at the end of each year though.
Which of my recent personal/self hosted technology projects truly enhanced my life versus just occupied time?
- Swapping out my Hue white bulbs for colored bulbs and setting a more mellow early AM lighting scene for my 4:30AM wake ups has made being in my listening nook much nicer and more welcoming
- Getting Moode Audio running on a Raspberry PI connected to the HiFI in my listening room has also made music discovery and listening during those early AM hours (and whenever else I can retreat to the room) much better.
- Doing some room analysis and adding room correction EQ to my Moode Audio setup has reduced an annoying bass frequency range, makes listening at loud volumes way better.
- Getting Home Assistant running on an Intel NUC, adding Zigbee and incorporating some energy monitoring plugs into my smart home has helped me identify where it might be possible to use resources more efficiently (running certain appliances while there’s sun as I discovered I have a lot of surplus solar on my battery-less system).
- Creating a playlist in Overcast for my daily news podcasts (would love to be able to play the playlist from a shortcut but haven’t quite sorted that out).
- The holy grail I’m chasing right now which I’m hopeful will really add some enhancement/enjoyment is a script that takes my Shaarli bookmarks and processes them in such a way through ChatGPT API to auto tag and summarize in the description as well as send the link to readwise if it’s an article. That’s my project for the next week or so, we’ll see.
