The Lotti mental model
Your life is not a backlog.
The loop: say it, choose it, live it, learn from it
A category creates a useful boundary. A task names an outcome. Notes, recordings, images, and checklists keep the surrounding truth close.
Category · task · entryDaily OS turns the work that matters into a proposed block. It is a decision for this day, not a rewrite of the task or a promise to a future self.
Plan · planned blockTrack the time you actually spent. Add the note, photo, measurement, or voice recording that explains what really happened—messy, useful, and intact.
Time record · evidenceHabits, measurements, dashboards, and time analysis turn many ordinary days into something you can learn from. Then the next decision gets wiser.
Habit · measurable · dashboardThe building blocks, without pretending they are all the same
| Building block | Use it for | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Category | A meaningful area of life or work | Health, Family, Research |
| Task | An outcome that needs progress | Prepare the V1 release |
| Checklist | Concrete steps inside a task | Verify release notes |
| Entry | Context or evidence | Note, image, audio recording |
| Planned block | A proposed slot in the day | Release review, 10:00–11:00 |
| Time record | What actually happened | Release review, 10:18–11:07 |
| Habit | A recurring behavior you evaluate | Take medication |
| Measurable | A numeric observation | Resting heart rate |
| Dashboard | A view over useful measurements | Training overview |
Agents are guests, not co-owners
An agent can read the context you give it, form an opinion, summarise a messy task, and propose a useful next change. Its report is an opinion with provenance, not a new fact in your history. Proposed task, checklist, status, or date changes wait for you to confirm or dismiss them. The narrow exceptions are an initial title or language for an otherwise empty task—after that, the same human-approval rule applies.
This is not politeness bolted onto a prompt. Lotti keeps the personal logbook and agent working memory separate, so the agent cannot treat your history as a scratchpad. You can use AI, tune it, or leave it entirely alone.
A practical first orbit
- Create categories that you genuinely use to make decisions.
- Capture work as tasks and keep supporting material attached to them.
- Use Daily OS to decide what belongs in a particular day.
- Record actual time and observations without forcing them to match the plan.
- Review habits and dashboards for patterns rather than individual perfect days.
Keep ownership clear
- A linked task owns its title and category.
- A Daily OS block owns its placement and duration.
- A time entry owns the record of what happened.
- AI proposes; you review and decide.
If the plan changed, let it change. If the day went sideways, record what did happen. A useful system helps you see the shape of your life; it does not ask you to perform a more productive one for the database.
Next, create a first task or jump directly to Daily OS.