I’m just admiring your nut case!

I like what you’ve got and will give it a go. I’m following a trail that started with an iOS app for helping you keep track of when you last contacted your friends. I couldn’t see that in your screenshots, but it would be a great feature for me at least!

I only found out about Monica from one of the ADHD communities, and when I looked there has been. No update for almost a year. I thought it might be dead?

Never tried this, but it was in a selfh.st newsletter a few weeks back

www.dedicatedcode.com/projects/reitti/?ref=selfh.…

I thought I would try it out when I had time. It does ‘memories’ and seems to tell a story about your data.

Depending on your level of technical skill and willingness to risk crack things open, you can flash most Tasmota type devices with esphome and hard code it to be always on. This would go along way to eliminating software as the problem. I have done this with meters attached to my washing machine and dishwasher.

Also, the boards are also relatively simple and it is likely (although there are lots of variants) that you could remove the relay completely and bridge across the terminals. I wouldn’t plug my electric car into it (10A sustained) but you could put a led lamp through it without without much risk.

Disclaimer - I am a hobbyist, not an electrician. YMMV, keep a fire extinguisher nearby, yadda yadda

I’ve heard it split into ‘old millennials’ being digital immigrants, and ‘young millennials’ being digital natives. Both are shaped by the wider macroeconomic effects and have similar outlooks, but older millennials are more likely to have been in work with some career progression under their belt before the crises hit.

I recognise this problem, I had it for cameras detecting people, and that being annoying when I work in the garden.

The automation itself is surfaced as a switch so you can turn it off without trying to change your in automation logic to test for states.

Then, if you are like me, you’ll realise you forget to turn it back on! I created an automation that triggers when the automation is turned off and turns it back on after 2 hours (no way I’m gardening for longer than that).

Lastly, because it was annoying to have to open the app, I made the notification have an action button to turn off the notification automation, so that when I start gardening and my phone pings, I can turn it off without farting about too much.

Related to 100% of memes. Laughed at 90%+

Think I might be a 90s kid.

Thank you so much for sharing your design thinking. I have no comments but will be trying your concepts. I am considering whether it might overlap on Gridfinity bins for organising things.