Hi Everybody! 

I've reached another reflective milestone for this project and wanted to put something out there discussing it. A big part of this project has been that it is highly experimental, I've been tinkering and trying new things to see what ways there might be to create a better system, to try to do some unique things which are not done elsewhere. This hasn't always been successful. 

One of these things was that many of the links in this app, once created, have up to now, been automatically bidirectional.

This is something I've finally decided it's time to add some additional nuance to. It's a bit distracting to have the app making this assumption on my behalf, I would rather be able to have some links be unidirectional!  

automatic bi-directionality is going to be discontinued in the next update in favor of links which only go one way. It will still be possible to add secondary links and still create these double links, but they are no longer going to be universal or automatic. I think this is going to be for the best for the project and early tests are showing it to be the right move. So that's that! Hopefully this will help make this app better.

The goal was to make a helpful computer system to help make it easier to achieve Flow States among other things, and I think removing automatic bi-directionality will be a good step in the right direction here. If you have any questions, ideas, or just want to chat about theory, please feel free to reach out to my email. 

I feel like there's still more tuning to do and some additional updates such as this one. I want this app to feel good to use, like playing a guitar or piano. I want it to be super chill and nice and I will admit I am also reading a lot of fiction, poetry, games, for inspiration. whatever it takes to make a really great process, something that feels good to be a part of, the way playing an instrument or playing a good game or having a great conversation feels good. it's all about feelings and flow, and the actual process in motion of continuing to interact with it. I'm still not sure if I shouldn't just take what I've learned and turn it into an actual game, but there will be time for that later too

Also just wanted to say, I remembered recently another big idea behind this which is that none of the ideas in this app are really mine. It's all inspired by other sources, other people, I haven't invented anything new. just tinkering and testing using how it impacts my life as a measure, if it makes my life better and more lively it's moving in the right direction, that is what I hope to create not just for me but more generally. if it doesn't enrich life, there's more work to be done, that was always the measure of success

I'm just so interested in whether it's possible for software to make life genuinely better and how. It's always about tinkering, changes and feedback. I also know what really matters eventually is living a full life full of good feelings, vitality, emotion, growth, hopefully a bit of inner peace and joy

happy new year!  🌻