Creating workflows

On my notes about software I keep a list of half-secret desired side-projects. I often think about a different spin on a common problem where tech could help improve someone's day.

Of the many to-do apps and note apps I've used through the years, they are usually good for immediate, direct note-taking. They grow and serve the purpose of the frequently mentioned "second brain".

What I was after is a software that can help you make some decisions not based on accumulated knowledge, but on accumulated experience (article opportunity). It should be practical enough to enter structured information and also have a way to extract lessons from that accumulated experience.

Workflows is my first attempt at something like that. You create block-based "workflows" - it could have been another word, really, like "recipes", "journeys", "experiments", etc - and you rate them, write the details, and record the outcome. You create a system to observe your results, a little scientifically. Then you do the workflow again, you tweak something, you register it again. Slowly getting close to fine-tuning how it works best for you and to the results you want.

This is software that as you grow its usage, doesn't necessarily increase the number of items and amount of data. You prune it. You may settle on some well-crafted, time-tested workflows that work well for you. Hopefully you learn by experimentation what works for you - or you notice some external factor you couldn't easily relate to the outcome you were trying to get.

This software is a proof of concept, it will save data locally but please don't rely on it on the long term. But feel free to give it a try, and at some point move your learnings to your own notes. What do you want to optimize?