A better way to (not) waste your time
A better way to kill time.
An app that suggests healthy ways for you to spend your time, in a context-aware way.
Note This project is a work-in-progress.
Features:
A day-planner that suggests activities for you to do
A recommender system for content that you control.
$ timekill --help
Usage: timekill [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
list List content with recommendations.
plan Plan a day of activity.
start Entrypoint for the timekill server
suggest Suggest activities to do.
Note: the text below was written a long time ago, and does not represent the current state of the project.
Most of us are guilty of using our phones too much, which wouldn't be a problem if most of the use was actually healthy. Instead we spend far more time than we should on social media, YouTube, Netflix, and games. What if we could wire our brains to compulsively open an app that suggested healthy alternatives instead?
What I suggest is a feed that serves cards with healthy and productive content. Content feeds are powerful tools that capture our attention by exploiting our brains' desire for novelty. The question is: can we tame it?
Here's a list of healthy ways to kill time:
The important thing for things to make a list like this is that it's something the user could sometimes actually be willing to do. Different times/moods/places call for different timekill.
How do we build an MVP that users like and find helpful as quickly as possible?
Current name was just how the one I happened to impulsively use when thinking about it. It might need improvement.
I've discovered similar software that does part of what timekill does.
Automatic scheduling:
Self-hosted/open-source/personal recommender system: