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On a related note: I’ve recently become interested in creating a database for everything in my life with the view of enabling digital assistants to do my bidding. Best described as WolframAlpha for your life.

My thesis is: Digital Assistants are limited in their functionality due to not knowing enough about me.

For example I can't say: "Hey Siri, my son has a cough. Please book him a doctor's appointment and ask his school for his homework".

The value of having a structured knowledgebase of my life is only going to increase with brain machine interfaces.

Resources around "personal knowledge management systems", "building a second brain", etc seem to be all around stuffing unstructured data into a system (Evernote, Notion, etc). The "Quantified Self" folks seem to be just stuffing a limited set of metrics in a database.

Would anyone have any resources or materials I can research further on this field?



For this part I think the more important thing is that schools and doctors usually use very out-dated ways for appointments, either by in-person, or by phone calls. Most of them don't even accept emails. Even if you can program something that speak the line for you through phone (shouldn't be crazily difficult), they won't be as intelligent as real secretaries who can take questions, do negotiaons, etc.

However if they accept emails the functionality shouldn't be too difficult, from the technical perspective.

TBH I think most of the inefficiency of our daily life is due to lack of use of modern technology in banking/schools/doctors/gov/etc. They always argue "oh but it's not safe".


Thanks for your response.

I suspect the limitations around digit assistants are due to a lack of an entity graph, and not the ability to communicate.

For instance my doctor allows for bookings via App, and phone. Furthermore, my digital assistants know who my doctor is, but don’t know who my son’s doctor and teacher is.


Then it shouldn't be too difficult to feed it the information and then manipulate the app I think.

I wish my doctor had that...everytime I have to call his secretary to make an appointment.


Would love to collaborate. PM me if interested.




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