frozen octopus

When I got to the end of recording 150 sentences into my iPhone, I was a little hoarse. Also not knowing 100% what I would use my Personal Voice for.

It took a looooooong time for it to finish process because your phone needs to be on a charger and locked.

When it was done I typed a random sentence for it to read as Me and it sounded like me for sure.

My first reaction to hearing it was that it's cool that if I ever have a problem with my voice, I have a backup now.

My second thought was I can have it read all the content I want to do on a possible YouTube channel I am teetering on doing.

Usually we do Osouji (大掃除) at the end of the year but this year we decided to start in on it a couple weeks early. We'll do the actual washing of things the last day or two. Today we got started on the decluttering.

My "system" for this task is running things through two questions:

1. What is it?
2. Where does it live?

When I stuck to that, things got done. When I deviated, distraction set in.

The great flattening is happening. I am moving away from a folder for each context (home, work, drum, etc.) with a text file for each thought. Now there will be one context folder with a text file for each context.

The plan is to start the thought in Drafts, tag it with the context (ex: @drum), and prepend it to the @drums.txt file.

The hope is having a handful of context files will be less temptation to waste time in than a ton of files organizing.

I am experimenting with having the first screen on my phone being Siri suggestions only. Curious to see how much app searching I need to do vs. the app magically being there.

Day Two of it and I'd say it's about 60-70% that the app is there when I need it so far. Tough for Siri to anticipate when I am going to need to add a drum beat into the drum machine app and things like that.

When I first added the three identical widgets, all the apps were the same across them. They suddenly adjusted to have no repeats.

I'm very interested in how this is going to affect which apps I use. Thinking you are a certain type of person and then not having the apps associated with that type of person suggested to you must make you start to self-adjust.

The record label I help out has a ton of releases. There are over 60 of them. I've been trying to get all the metadata correct on all the albums. The year is easy to sort out but the actual day is very tough to find.

My temporary solution was to just use Jan 01 until I find them. I've been noticing as I add what albums I listen to that there are a lot of Jan 01 releases in Apple Music.

Looks like great minds think a like. Jan 01 must be the universal date for "I give up trying to track down the release date".