Giving Up Logjam
Why I’m giving up LogJam
I hate giving something up before it’s finished but:
- I’m burning a ton of time on the UI and not even using it
- I’m unconvinced productivity apps are worthwhile
- It’s simply not as fun as paper and pen
Final Product
It’s a Mac OS X
What I got from it
- Way more Rust exposure
- How to bundle Mac apps (!!!)
- The next thing
What does the ultimate productivity app look like?
The ultimate productivity tool is seamless.
It looks like this: You clip something on a pen. You write, it automatically transcribes into a cloud synced document.
Todo’s are marked with a special character, you can schedule reminders with natural language.
We can build this.
Here’s what we need:
- Pen tracking sensor
- Handwriting -> Text
- Text -> (Instructions, Notes)
It’s easiest to approach in reverse order:
- LLM that parses a text file to a set of tasks with reminders
- A tool that takes a picture of handwriting and converts it to text in the system
- The pen tracking sensor (most difficult part)
But that doesn’t derisk the project well, since #3 is the hardest.
It actually makes sense to approach that first:
- Pen tracking with an arbitrary pen
What does this project get me?
- Hardware Experience
- Machine Learning Experience
- More Side Project
What are the risks?
- Get’s frontrun by something like Tab, where you converse with the model
- Might be easier to talk with a model than write
- But something super unique about pen & paper…
- Or is there? Maybe there’s something unique about talking?
- Pen & Paper is very output focused, non distracting
- There’s a reason humans use whiteboards while talking.
It’s worth a try, let’s do it - LogJam Too.