Some call it runway and 10,000 feet. Some call it earth and stars. Some call it trees and forest. It goes by many names, but they are all ways of symbolizing perspective.

Coming up with the theme is the fun part. Actually taking the time to do the perspective work is the hard part. I use the GTD system, which has around five horizons of focus that I am supposed to review.

I have them dutifully set up in my tasks app, which I dutifully skip every time they come up. Then I feel guilty about not taking stock and planning ahead. I think the hurdle for me is actually asking myself the questions. I love reviewing, thinking, and planning. But being the interviewer and also the interviewee at the same time is too much for my brain.

I've been messing around with Claude Cowork lately. So I decided to build a skill for maintaining my horizons of focus (perspective). I'm have it scheduled out to ask me the questions I need to answer to figure out my horizons of focus. It then records my answers to a simple text file that is the source of truth for my perspective.

It has instructions to always read that text file before helping me plan my day. The results so far are when I get my daily briefing, it is adding notes to the tasks I need to do with things like "this task aligns well with something you mentioned in Horizon 3: Goals and objectives".

Being reminded of the horizons like that is giving me a little boost to get that one done or going. This is a work in progress, but it is fun slowly building this robo-friend.

A while back, I made a shortcut using Apple Script that opens up all the folders in Finder where stuff collects. When I run it, an obnoxious amount of folders pop up. I am forced to close them all one by one, which is really annoying. But while I am in each folder, tasks and ideas are getting into my flow a lot more. My folder structure is getting a lot flatter. A lot of images are getting converted into text and put into where they should actually be.

Weekly might be a lot more sane for a folder cleaning task like this. I do think daily is making doing this a little less anxiety-producing though. Making decisions on a couple of files a day is a lot less mental stress than a week’s worth of stuff.

As a bonus, processing image files is breaking me of the habit of taking a screenshot to remember something. It is quick to take one, but it is just kicking things down the line for future me.