03 · BuildRunning daily
Almanac
- Role
- Builder
- Timeline
- June 2026–present
- Status
- Running daily
Description
An executive assistant system I built for myself. I talk to it, it files what I said into the right place, connects and graphs each data point, and generates insights meant to hold me accountable and improve my life.
6live data sources
~2 dozentools the AI can call
531automated tests
1system across every domain
Why I built it
Watching producers at Trifilm juggle a dozen moving parts at once showed me how much of that job is pure coordination. Then I came back to my heaviest year yet: side projects, the Adobe Student Ambassador role, a creative internship with Redbird Athletics, and my most intensive courseload so far. I wanted to see how many hours I could win back from the repetitive parts, entering every assignment into my calendar by hand, reshuffling my week, keeping track of goals and what I said I would finish. So I built the system that does it.
Everything connects into a map
Every person, project, charge, and note I capture becomes a point on a map I can actually walk, connected from what I told it and never tagged by hand. Tap a node and you travel to what it's attached to. Every future query can traverse this graph, so the system continuously improves itself.
The /graph view, and the 3D globe it folds into.
Talk to it, and it files itself
I capture everything by voice through an iPhone shortcut. One tap opens the recorder, and a sentence like "remind me to send the contract Thursday, and I spent forty bucks at Costco" becomes a task with the right date and a logged expense, and it decides which is which. Seconds later it's filed and waiting on my dashboard. I never fill in a form.
One tap to record, then it lands on the dashboard.
It briefs me every morning
Every morning it writes me one short brief, pulled from my actual calendar, my tasks, and who I haven't talked to in a while. Every number in it is calculated in code, so it is a real figure and never a guess.
The first thing I see each morning.
And it speaks up on its own
Most assistants just sit there until you ask them something. Almanac reads across everything it knows and surfaces insights on its own: the spending creeping up, the friend I haven't texted in weeks, the goal I said mattered and then drifted from. That is the part I'm proudest of. It also knows when to stay quiet, at most one digest a day, so the insights it does raise are the ones actually worth my attention.
It connects the dots I'd miss, then only tells me when it counts.
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What it actually means
I'm a marketing major, and I built and shipped this alone. It's proof I can take an AI product from an idea to something real and used daily: scoping it, wiring up real integrations, and deciding what to build and what to leave out. Those are the same questions marketing asks of any product, which is exactly why building one has taught me more about the field than reading about it ever could.
