This is hard to explain in words without walls of text, so: **examples**. (Content notice: candid talk of cat excreta.) One of my two cats has a life-threatening chronic condition where too much stress can result in him not being able to use the litter box properly, and that can become an emergency in about 48 hours. When I sift the litter I always track the contents with a voice memo and you can see that visualized as a chart here, including running averages: ![[Pasted image 20260428130050.png]] My agenda for this note is to aggregate the daily counts, which come from notes like this: ![[Screenshot 2026-04-28 at 1.09.09 PM.png]] The agenda for these daily notes is a bit more complex than the chart: - filter from my my **single-stream voice memos** the litter sifting transcription events - e.g. "I just sifted poop and two pee clumps from the front litter box." - Store - an emoji summary for each event with time and link back to the transcription - aggregate summary for the day - Propagate to the monthly chart the new daily summary These notes act as **cognitive artifacts**, the result of me enacting and embodying their agenda, *my* agenda. What's neat is that these artifacts could be generated by someone else, [or an LLM "agent" if they didn't corrupt documents](https://arxiv.org/html/2604.15597v1), or in my case nowadays: **code**. *[Getting Things Done](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done)* talks about "**distributed cognition**" and in my case, I've externalized **not just memory into a linked wiki**, but various digital aspects of my life's *agenda*: ![[Pasted image 20260222083844.png]] I know there's a lot here, but bear with me - see that cluster in the bottom right? There's a chart note/agent 📈 surrounded by about a month's worth of daily notes. The lines indicate message-passing, where the daily notes send their summaries to the monthly chart. So I've been building a kind of **e pluribus enum** of personal digital assistants, an "out of many, one" kind of thing where the various "atomic" aspects of my agenda **collaborate** via message-passing: ![[2025-11-17 - Imgur.mp4]] A message sent from a daily note to a chart would look like this: ```json { "forDay": "2026-04-25", "peeClumps": 5, "poops": 2, "auditStatus": "AuditNotCompleted" } ``` That's it for now, but feel free to [[Contacting Me|reach out]] about [[Things I might write more about]].