Schedule

I worked up a schedule to complete the six short-term goals I listed last time which has me completing them all by October 24. I'd say the schedule is ambitious but realistically achievable.

I also made some progress on the People module today. Yay!

Software Development...

The software for my exocortex is by far the largest software project I've ever undertaken, currently spanning approximately 130 files of source code. As such, I am learning quite a bit about the software development process, including the frustrations.

My ToDo list for the web interface is expanding exponentially.

The only modules I'm using every day so far are the newfeeds and notes modules. I need to start using People, but I've come to see that the current design is missing features needed to make it the most useful. Not to mention that the UI really sucks as it is.

I guess I'm going to have to prioritize a bit:

1. Fix People module
   
2. Implement Core Knowledge
   
3. Improve newsfeeds module
   
4. Fix Calendar
   
5. Implement Memory Browser
   
6. Fix Search
   

If I do all those things, I will be able to blaze ahead with my Agent related work.

Time to get back to work...

Exocortex & Newsfeeds

Today is the first day I'm using my exocortex as my newsfeed reader. So far I'm pretty pleased, although I have a couple of tweaks I want to make to the software. Already this is proving to be an improvement.

The biggest advantage is that I can access my feeds from work and home and spread the time I spend reading them out more evenly over the day.

Additionally, the exocortex keeps all my feeds, indefinitely, allowing me to search back to find articles I read in the past.

I need to make some changes to have it display each feed item's source and to allow variable time increments between feed updates on a per-feed basis. (Google news updates its stories too frequently and needs to be checked less often to keep the volume manageable.)

I'm really looking forward to Monday morning when I will no longer be greeted with 400+ unread feed items.

Exocortex Online

It's been a long road just to get to what is effectively the first step in an even longer journey but my exocortex is now online. There is still lots to do, but I can finally begin using it.