I built an app to remember my own work

I built an app to remember my own work

It was not my memory failing: it was that I never wrote anything down. The context of what I do lives scattered across Jira, Slack, GitHub and my head, and none of those places keeps the whole story. This is why I ended up writing my own app.

Priority was never in the text

Priority was never in the text

I was about to build a feature that inferred the priority of my open items with an on-device model. Before writing it I measured it against 67 items I had labelled by hand myself. The agreement with my own judgement was zero.