Struck by a market-making provocation from today: "Imagine a world where you love how you make choices and you love how you're directing your attention, because tech inventors are competing to figure out how best to help you live as you intend."
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It's not clear how to align incentives so that this becomes a relevant design question for tech co's, but I'm enjoying the prompt. It's interesting that OSes have contacts, calendars, docs, etc—yet no representation of anything purposive, of ways of being, of "what matters?"
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Funny to contrast the ubiquitous to-do app's model with intentions which might deeply matter to someone, like "I want to make sure I'm taking my ideas as seriously as possible." Tasks are such a misleading way of thinking about intention. But hey, it's easier to build a to-do UI!
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, thoughts?
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Mmm, yeah. I built complice.co to tackle this challenge, and I think it does an okay job of that! Instead of a huge backlog of TODOs, you have your big picture goals then each day you ask freshly "what am I going to do towards these today?" & enter intentions
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& while it has an "intention" list instead of a "task" list, they're still structurally/functionally very similar to tasks so it's easy to fall back into old patterns.
If you want to help develop next iteration of Complice, get in touch! My full-time focus is elsewhere atm.
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Indeed, I really enjoyed how Complice emphasized intentions rather than tasks! Lots of thoughtful design notions there.