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I am on a mission to create “life context” that can be used by an AI to enhance and upgrade my life experience. Currently I have settled on a journal style system that allows me to record as many aspects of my day to day activities and interactions as possible. The system involves the creation of a .txt file that is laid out in an AI friendly way, easy to parse and human readable if needed. So far I have created 3 “apps” using Shortcuts which comes standard with iOS. I am having a ball using Shortcuts! So far I have a V1 finance, general entry and bowel health data collection systems.

John Montgomery 5d ago 💬 1

How’d you set up the finance app?

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GJM 5d ago

You get presented with 4 menus in this order 1. Sub categories of the Finance main category 2. Hashtags to break it down further, 3. Suppliers and 4. An amount. The entry gets written like the following example:

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Date: 2025-12-28 17:50 -0800

Category: Finance > Groceries

Tags: #CAD #CanadaJAN26

Supplier: Save-On-Foods

Metric: 65.93

Entry: 2 bottles of wine and 2 bags of chips.

Time and date with a time zone offset (because I am currently travelling overseas). A main category with a sub category. Tags to filter further. A supplier. A metric, in this case an amount. An entry to allow additional notes. This fits the bigger picture entry layout that the other Shortcuts also use.

This means that I can ask an AI to contrast and compare or retrieve a variety of combinations of data as well as review habits etc, all for the purpose of context.

Data is currently saved to iCloud so I can also use the shortcuts from my laptop.