Ontoplano, FOSS life management app with a mobile app, MCP server and more

2 pointsposted 13 hours ago
by chedieck
(github.com)

6 Comments

chedieck

13 hours ago

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atmanactive

12 hours ago

It is a great start, congrats on the release. Out of all the categories offered, I'm missing "Invertory" category. A place where I could ask AI to remember something and to retrieve it later on. For example :) "Honey, where do keep the measuring tape?" - "Living room, white chest, first drawer.". That's what I'm missing in my life. On the other hand, all of my contacts originate from the phone address book, so unless there is some special synchronization, I don't see how I would manage them in Ontoplano.

chedieck

12 hours ago

I implemented inventory management in /shopping: I hated crossing shopping lists in the market and having to think about it all again later. Much better to keep a pre-determined list of stuff you want to always have at home (with the option to snooze it if you are not feeling like buying that for now, but may be in the future) and only say if you do have it or if you need to buy it.

But you're asking to have a list of non-consumable stuff you have being able to record where it lives; I'd just use shopping, mark as something that I have, and put it's location on the description. You could create a category there: "House stuff" or something.

atmanactive

12 hours ago

The challenge with an inventory, as opposed to shopping is classification. With shopping lists, I don't need much classification, milk is milk, lettuce is lettuce. But, for an inventory, I need a tree of parent-child relationships as well as tags, with freely configurable destination fields, like, for example, KeePassXC/KeePassDX. Not all objects have same data attributes, like, for example, that measuring tape, is it a 3m or 5m tape, is it a construction tape or tailor tape. My USB cables in the drawer, are they USB2 or USB3, USB-C or USB-A. In my brain, a shopping list is a flat array, while home inventory is a file system with tags.

chedieck

11 hours ago

Makes sense. I will put that on the ROADMAP, maybe /shopping can be reworked into /inventory and made way more detailed and powerful. Thanks a lot for your input!