So here’s the thing – I had to hit pause on my vibe coding project for a hot minute. Not because I wanted to, but because my life had become this beautiful disaster of scattered tasks, forgotten deadlines, and that nagging feeling that I was always forgetting something important.
You know that feeling, right? When you’re juggling personal stuff, the work that actually pays the bills, and those side business adventures (hello, Wisdom UnBranded!) all at once? Yeah, that was me. Something had to give.
Enter My Digital Rescue Mission
Instead of diving deeper into my coding rabbit hole, I decided to turn to something I’ve been experimenting with: n8n automation. Now, I know what you’re thinking – there are probably a thousand YouTube videos showing you how to recreate JARVIS in your spare time. But here’s the thing about me: I like to figure things out on my own terms.
The main goal for Phase 1 was pretty straightforward: organize all my tasks and notes into three neat little buckets – personal, work, and business. Then, using Notion’s clean interface and a Telegram bot, see if I could actually keep track of all the moving pieces in my life.
Sounds simple enough, right?
The Good, The Bad, and The “Oops”
I also built this workflow that’s supposed to send me a daily digest every morning. You know, just the tasks I need to tackle today or the ones sitting there with no due date, judging me silently. The workflow looked perfect on paper, ran beautifully in testing, and I was feeling pretty proud of myself.
Then came the first real test.
The system said it ran. The logs looked happy. But my inbox? Crickets. No email, no digest, no nothing. Back to the drawing board on that one.
Why Not Stick With Analog?
Look, I’ve tried the whole bullet journaling thing. I really have. There’s something appealing about putting pen to paper, creating those satisfying little checkboxes, and having everything in one physical place. I started strong, kept it up for a while, but then… life happened.
I fell behind. Then I fell further behind. Now my bullet journal sits there like a monument to good intentions, too far gone for me to even consider catching up. It’s like that pile of laundry you keep meaning to fold – at some point, it’s easier to just start fresh.
Going Back to What Works
Here’s the reality: I’m at my computer way more than I care to admit. So why fight it? If I’m already here, might as well make technology work for me instead of against me.
N8n has become this interesting thread running through both my work life and personal projects. It just made sense to lean into it and see where this automation adventure takes me.
The Bigger Picture
Now, before you think I’m completely abandoning my vibe coding project – absolutely not. That little app is sitting at about 90% complete for its first release, and I’m way too invested to walk away now. But sometimes you need to step back and get your house in order before you can really push forward.
This whole personal assistant experiment is as much about the journey as the destination. I want to see what’s possible, what breaks, what works better than expected, and honestly, what you all think about it too.
Because that’s the thing about building in public – sometimes the most interesting discoveries happen when you’re not even trying to solve the original problem. Sometimes you’re just trying to remember to buy milk and end up building something that changes how you think about productivity entirely.
We’ll see where this rabbit hole leads. But for now, I’ve got some email workflows to debug and a life to organize.
What about you? Are you team analog, team digital, or somewhere in between when it comes to keeping your life together? I’d love to hear what’s working (or spectacularly not working) for you.
