📅 2025-10-14 — Session: Automated Task Management System Optimization
🕒 00:20–01:45
🏷️ Labels: Automation, Task Management, Cognitive Architecture, Spreadsheet Automation, Cognitive Offloading
📂 Project: Dev
Session Goal
The session aimed to optimize various elements of task management systems through automation and cognitive strategies.
Key Activities
- Delegated maintenance tasks to a periodic events sheet to enhance focus on design and insight.
- Re-architected a system into a dual-layer design for better cognitive focus and self-correction.
- Developed structured approaches for automating task scheduling in spreadsheets using deterministic phases and formulas.
- Designed a rolling operational telemetry board with filtering, annotation, and visualization techniques.
- Created a ‘tap to log’ automation in Google Sheets using custom Apps Script and alternative formula-based methods.
- Refined a JavaScript function for accurate timestamp tracking in Google Sheets.
- Transformed static lists into dynamic operational dashboards in Excel, focusing on filtering and sorting tasks.
- Implemented operational improvements in task management systems, including new columns for effort and severity.
- Discussed benefits of periodic tracking boards for cognitive compression and information hygiene.
- Explored cognitive architecture and cognitive offloading concepts to enhance task management efficiency.
- Introduced a model for an attentional operating system with dynamic cognitive layer management.
- Proposed a novel contact scheduling system likened to an orbital model for sustainable interaction.
Achievements
- Successfully implemented multiple automation strategies across task management systems.
- Enhanced cognitive focus and system efficiency through strategic task delegation and cognitive offloading.
- Developed innovative models for attentional management and contact scheduling.
Pending Tasks
- Further refine the cognitive architecture model for task management.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the orbital contact scheduling system in real-world scenarios.