Day
When I own my data, I can… have a greater day.
This room is drawn by a script that has not run, so only the words are here. The same room is written out below, and there is a plain text page for it.
This room, in words
One day with itsadoor, from the morning check in to the evening check in.
In the morning you press the call button and check in. During the day itsadoor helps with what is on your list and keeps track of what happens. In the evening you check in again, and the day becomes a page you can look back on.
This room is not split into the past and the plan. It is one day, from morning to night.
On the wall hangs a picture frame. It shows your days from further back.
What stands in the room
A new home starts empty. When you pick day as your purpose, these objects stand in the main room. Every start has the first four. This purpose adds a picture frame.
Call button
safe, private, local AI in everything
You check in at the call button each morning and again each evening. It is in every room, and it knows which room you pressed it in.
Small desk
edit documents
With AI: it will find and summarize what you wrote.
The small desk is where you write the day down and plan it. In this room it shows your journal first, then your planner, then your to-do list.
- Journal
- One page for the day: what happened, how it felt, what is on your mind.
- Planner
- Your day in time blocks, and an honest answer to “can I fit this in?”
- To-do
- What is next, checked off as you go.
Mini fridge
manage calendar, notes and to-dos
With AI: it will line up your day each morning.
The mini fridge holds what is coming up and what repeats. Open it to see what is next today.
- To-do
- What is next, kept where you will see it.
- Planner
- The coming days laid out.
- Routines
- About three routines, with an alarm first, and these are the only times itsadoor reaches out.
Locking drawer
locked health and money records
With AI: it will work here only while the drawer is open.
The locking drawer is the lockbox, and it asks for a second lock every time you open it. Health and money start inside, and this site never shows them.
Picture frame
look back at journals and good moments
With AI: it will bring up days from further back.
The picture frame is for looking back over your days. It can grow into the memory room.
- Journal
- Your day pages, one after another.
- Look back
- A scrapbook of past pages and days, where sealed pages show as sealed.
- Good moments
- The good things from your days, gathered in one place.
Tray by the front door
documents out on your phone
With AI: it will show which documents are out and when loans end.
This is the tray by the door. On the phone it is called “Handed out”. It lists the documents the hub has lent to a work app, says when each loan ends, and takes it back. It has been run on the iPhone simulator only, never on a real phone.
Taking it back ends the loan now. The work app cannot open the document again, and anything typed there that was not handed back is dropped. It cannot unread what the work app already read.
Not finished yet The backpack will hang on a hook here, beside the tray. It is the one place for what you download onto the device you carry. Each device has its own backpack. You set how long an item stays, and when the time runs out it leaves the device and stays in the house.
What the call button will do here
Not finished yet
The app has no AI in it yet. This is what the call button is being built to do. Local means it will run on your own computer. Private means what you ask will stay in your home.
- In the living room, day At the morning and evening check-in at the call button, it will surface life information from your own documents: what is on today, what you said you would do, and what you have not looked at in a while. Here that means your journal, your planner and your to-do list. It will not act on its own: nothing is changed, sent or kept until you choose.
- At the desk It will help you edit documents: suggest a template for what you are writing, fill in fields you can accept or change, and answer “what did I write about this?” from your own documents. It will not change a document by itself: what it suggests is a draft until you accept it.
- At the fridge It will help with what is coming up: adjust a time block in your planner, tell you honestly whether you can fit something in, and bring up the next to-do and the next step of a routine. It will not make a commitment for you.
- At the locking drawer It will work on your health and money records only while you have the drawer open, after the second lock. itsadoor may suggest which kinds of record belong in the drawer. It will not look inside while the drawer is closed, and it will never choose which single items go in.
- At the picture frame It will help you look back: bring up days from further back in your journal, and help you mark a day or keep a good moment. It will not choose what to keep: you do.
- At the tray It will help you see which documents are out on your phone and when each loan ends. It will not hand a document out or take one back without you.
- At your house, outside It will help with sharing: pick one finished piece to share, and turn a good moment into a short postcard draft. It will not share anything for you: you publish or close it yourself.
- At the stoop It will help you pick one finished piece to share, mark it open or closed, and shape drafts and good moments for the people you share with. It will not publish for you: you publish or close it yourself.
- At the doorbell plate It will help you follow up on something you promised a person you are connected to, and look over your card to give out. It will not connect you to anyone or answer a request for you.
- At the mailbox It will help you write a postcard and look it over before you send it. It will not send anything: nothing leaves until you send it yourself.
- On the street It will help you remember what has passed between you and a person you are connected to. It will not look into anyone else’s house: another person’s house is seen from the outside only.
- At the backyard The backyard is for meeting the people you are connected to, and it is not built. When it is, the call button will help you get ready to meet them. It will not join a meeting for you.
How things here grow
In the app nobody picks a size of home. Each object grows when you want it to, on its own path, and can always go back. Nothing prompts you. On the picture version of this room, a control called “See it grow” shows the same objects at three steps named studio, house and mansion. Those three words belong to the website only.
The 3D house Not finished yet The same home, as a house you walk through in three dimensions.
Your house, outside the front door
The front door leads out to “Your house”, the front of your house. The place you stand is the stoop at first. It becomes the porch and then the veranda as sharing grows, and each size shares with more people: 1, 5, 10.
On the picture version, walking out opens it on a floating page over the living room, with the room still showing around it. Your front door stands at the top of the steps. Your figure walks down them, and pressing the door walks the figure back up and in. After the steps come the doorbell plate, the mailbox, the path and the gate, in the app’s order.
The doorbell plate holds the people you are connected to. The mailbox holds postcards. The path leads to the neighborhood, with one house for each person you are connected with. The gate leads to the backyard.
The stoop
share drafts and good moments
With AI: it will help you pick one finished piece to share.
The stoop is the first size of the place you stand to share. The app calls the first size “Front step”. This website calls it the stoop. It shows three views first, out on the stoop:
- Porch
- Pick one finished piece, mark it open as a card on the porch, and close it later.
- Good moments
- Collect the good things from your days, and share a few with someone who matters by postcard, so the reply comes from a person.
- Drafts
- Turn thoughts into a letter, an essay, a story, a report or a guide, working from an outline.
Who each size shares with
Not finished yet
- The stoop shares with one person at a time.
- The porch shares with a group of up to 5.
- The veranda shares with a group of up to 10.
Out front
- Doorbell plate contacts and requests to connect With AI: it will help you follow up on what you promised. The people you are connected to, requests, your card to give out and a way to add someone's card.
- Mailbox send and receive postcards With AI: it will help you write, and you send. Postcards you write and receive. Its flag is up while something is waiting to go. The mailbox cannot send or receive anything in this build. Nothing was lost. Not finished yet Sending and receiving between homes is not finished yet.
- Path walk to the neighborhood With AI: it will remember what passed, and will not look into anyone’s house. Leads along the street, to the houses of the people you are connected to. It leads to the neighborhood, and it will lead on to places people host. Not finished yet Leading on to places people host is not finished yet.
- Neighborhood One house for each person you are connected with, between a street lamp and a tree. The street is empty until someone is connected. Live presence and delivery between homes are not finished yet. Not finished yet Live presence and delivery are not finished yet.
- Gate go to the backyard With AI: when the backyard is built, it will help you get ready. Leads out to the backyard, where spaces will be. The backyard has a tree, a bench and a fence and nothing else yet.
- Inviting people Asking someone into a shared property. What it does is not finished yet, and it has no drawing yet. Not finished yet
- A place you host A separate room you will create and run on your own server, for the people you invite. It will stay invitation only. You will be able to sell goods there. The seller brings their own way to be paid; itsadoor never handles the payment. Not finished yet
In the backyard
- Guest visits Seeing the houses of people you are connected to, as a guest. Not finished yet
- Meeting spaces Meeting with those people in a shared space. Not finished yet
The rooms things can grow into
On the picture version, “See it grow” at its last step turns each thing that can become a room into a door with the room’s name on it. Walking through the door opens that room on a floating page over the living room, with the living room still showing around it. This is what stands in each room.
- Office drafts, notebook and decisions With AI: it will help you edit drafts and weigh a decision. Writing, planning and keeping the household. Stands in it: Desk, Whiteboard, Filing.
- Kitchen meals, shopping and plans With AI: it will help you plan meals and keep the shopping list. Actions, schedules and commitments. Stands in it: Fridge, Counter, Pantry.
- Memory room life story, keepsakes and recordings With AI: it will help you look back along your life story. Past material and life timelines. Stands in it: Timeline, Keepsakes, Mirror, Recordings.
The lockbox
The lockbox has a second lock that you pass every time, even to look at your own data. Health and money start inside it, and you choose what else goes in.
Robin’s example
Example data. Robin is invented.
A new home starts empty. Then the room fills in. The situation switch changes what Robin’s things say. It never changes the room. Pick a situation to read what Robin’s things say in it. On the picture version, choosing a situation puts a small note above each object whose lines changed, and a line on the wall says what changed.
Living alone
Journal
- Wednesday. A quiet morning, then a good walk at lunch.
- The tomato seedlings finally have real leaves.
- Marta waved from the fence and asked about the garden.
- Dinner on the front step, then the ukulele for a while.
Planner
- 8:00 Check in at the call button
- 9:00 Work on the garden plan
- 12:30 Walk
- 3:00 Write the newsletter draft
- 6:30 Dinner
- 9:00 Check in for the evening
To-do
- Water the seedlings (done)
- Buy lumber for the garden beds
- Send the newsletter draft to Sam
- Fix the squeaky back door
- Call Priya on Sunday
Routines
- 7:00 Alarm, the first routine
- 12:30 A walk, if the day allows
- 9:00 Check in for the evening
Look back
- Last Wednesday: finished painting the fence.
- Two weeks ago: the first seeds went in.
- A month ago: picked up the ukulele.
- Three weeks ago: a sealed page. It shows as sealed.
Good moments
- Sam laughed so hard at the market that a vendor joined in.
- The first ripe strawberry of the year.
- A kind note from Marta in the mailbox.
- The ukulele finally sounded like a song.
Having a partner
Journal
- Wednesday. Jo made coffee before I was up.
- The tomato seedlings finally have real leaves. Showed Jo.
- Marta waved from the fence and asked about the garden.
- Tonight: cook together, then a walk.
Planner
- 8:00 Check in at the call button
- 9:00 Work on the garden plan
- 12:30 Walk
- 3:00 Write the newsletter draft
- 6:30 Cook dinner with Jo
- 9:00 Check in for the evening
To-do
- Water the seedlings (done)
- Buy lumber for the garden beds
- Send the newsletter draft to Sam
- Pick a movie with Jo for Friday
- Call Priya on Sunday
Routines
- 7:00 Alarm, the first routine
- 12:30 A walk, if the day allows
- 9:00 Check in for the evening
Look back
- Last Wednesday: finished painting the fence.
- Two weeks ago: the first seeds went in.
- A month ago: picked up the ukulele.
- Three weeks ago: a sealed page. It shows as sealed.
Good moments
- Sam laughed so hard at the market that a vendor joined in.
- Jo and I danced in the kitchen.
- A kind note from Marta in the mailbox.
- The ukulele finally sounded like a song.
Raising kids
Journal
- Wednesday. Ada found her library card in a coat pocket.
- Theo wants tomatoes in a pot of his own.
- Marta waved from the fence and asked about the garden.
- Tonight: two stories and lights out by eight.
Planner
- 8:00 Check in at the call button
- 9:00 Work on the garden plan
- 3:30 Pick up Ada and Theo from school
- 5:00 Newsletter draft, while they play
- 6:30 Dinner and homework at the table
- 9:00 Check in for the evening
To-do
- Water the seedlings (done)
- Buy lumber for the garden beds
- Sign Ada’s school form
- Pack Theo’s swim bag
- Call Priya on Sunday
Routines
- 7:00 Alarm, the first routine
- 7:15 Wake Ada and Theo
- 9:00 Check in for the evening
Look back
- Last Wednesday: finished painting the fence.
- Two weeks ago: the first seeds went in.
- A month ago: picked up the ukulele.
- Three weeks ago: a sealed page. It shows as sealed.
Good moments
- Theo rode his bike without help for the first time.
- Ada drew the whole garden from memory.
- A kind note from Marta in the mailbox.
- The ukulele finally sounded like a song.
Caring for a parent
Journal
- Wednesday. Took Mom to the market, then lunch at her place.
- She told the story of the green bicycle again. I liked it.
- The tomato seedlings finally have real leaves.
- Tomorrow: a walk with Sam.
Planner
- 8:00 Check in at the call button
- 11:00 Take Mom to the market
- 12:30 Lunch at Mom’s
- 3:00 Write the newsletter draft
- 6:30 Dinner at home
- 9:00 Check in for the evening
To-do
- Water the seedlings (done)
- Buy lumber for the garden beds
- Pick up Mom’s library books
- Fix the light on Mom’s porch
- Call Priya on Sunday
Routines
- 7:00 Alarm, the first routine
- Sunday: lunch at Mom’s
- 9:00 Check in for the evening
Look back
- Last Wednesday: finished painting the fence.
- Two weeks ago: the first seeds went in.
- A month ago: picked up the ukulele.
- Three weeks ago: a sealed page. It shows as sealed.
Good moments
- Mom sang along in the car.
- Ruth brought over a jar of plum jam.
- A kind note from Marta in the mailbox.
- The ukulele finally sounded like a song.