It's 00:13 and I'm sitting outside to enjoy the cozy light and the chilly breeze, as it's too hot inside the house. We just had a lovely evening with some friends who came over for dinner.

I spent the day cleaning and preparing for the evening, while my wife was attending her dog trainer course. It feels good to spend the day far from the computer after a week that wasn't really productive work-wise.

Lately I've been finding myself tense quite often, and I'm not entirely sure why. I'm leaning towards the idea that it's because I have too many unfinished business in my head, that I need to keep track of.

My psychologist suggested to write these things down on sticky notes, on different colors for different categories, and maybe sticking them in different parts of the house.

This is an idea I had in my mind for a while: a system to store ideas based on spatial position. The initial thought was to create some sort of augmented reality system, like a whiteboard or a Miro-style application that allows to store notes and other things in the physical space. As that was too complicated I thought about a system to associate an idea to a physical object, maybe even 3D-printed, then storing these objects and when I take one and place it on a special platform, the system recognizes it and opens all the relative files on my computer, or something like that. Honestly, the sticky notes idea, the most simple application of this concept, never crossed my mind before.

I really think though that I need a practical way of keeping track of things, to free my mind and, of course, to avoid forgetting stuff.

Honestly I'm not a big fan of sticky notes, as they tend to loosen up and fall on the ground with time, but I bought some to give it a try, I wrote like three, sticked them on a wooden board and they fell down in less than a day.

I also tried to vibe-code a web-app that does basically that, has different boards with sticky notes but it got messed up since I tried to tangle that with another idea I had: a management system of ideas, which can perhaps be a different tool.

My current goal should be to identify the unfinished "things" that are more urgent, get them done, and lift them up from my chest. I just can't decide where the hell to place the sticky notes.

The other day I was thinking that I struggle to scientifically think about my behaviour in terms of how I function. I don't really understand why I behave how I behave and therefore I cannot learn form it, I don't improve. Maybe it's just an impression?

I definitely struggle to relax, I never know how to do that, so I vibe-coded an app to remind me. It's meant for emergency situations. It has a big button which says "I need to relax" and then guides me to a short meditation session and reminds me of the things I can do, things that usually help me to relax. Writing is one of them. The app also collects some data like mood and lets me write how I feel before and after.

This was a bit of a brain dump, get used. Wishing you a good night 🌙