This garden will contain notes for various hacks, scripts, systems, and configurations I build/tweak/deploy to make some part of existing in a world with technology easier for me. Here, I document a few optimzations to make my life easy. #

Headings that don’t have body text are yet to be started.
Sometimes things will be in progress, and marked as such. #

This is by no means an exhaustive list, merely a list of notes for things I tackle in this realm starting July 2025 #

Technology devices

[ ] Add tasks to my todoist via voice commands (google assistant) #

I want to be able to add tasks to todoist in specific without having to touch a device. This is mostly for when I am driving, but I suspect will be quite useful when I have a cat sitting on my lap with the phone too far away, etc. #

There isn’t a native todoist <> Goggle Assistant because google wants everybody to use it’s subpar tasks app instead. But you can ask it to add something to a list, and it will add the thing to a list on google keep. #

Enter this script someone has written and so kindly made available to the rest of us: keep2todoist #

The workflow is simple #

1. You create a note on keep.google.com titled “Task”. #
2. You say “Add an important task to the task list” #
3. Gemini will connect to keep and do the thing #
4. This script will check that particular note every M minutes and create a new task for that list in todoist via the todoist api #
5. Ta da! #

It needs to be hosted somewhere and requires a lot of extremely private credentials so I should be doing this myself as opposed to asking for a friend’s box. Will update details here. #

[ ] Set up Dropbox sync so my writing can exist on all my devices #

• My dropbox sync can also be source of truth for my obsidian vault #
• So far the only time I use vault (and not ia writer) is when I need to serach through all my notes #
• Dropbox sync stopped working suddenly, why? #

[ ] Write a script to add this site as the referrer for links I give it #

[ ] Write a script to return archive links of links I give it #

[ ] Write a script to frontmatter-ify exports from mataroa #

Car

[ ] Phone calls I make move the screen away from navigation #

This happens when I #

1. Place a phone call #
2. The person answers #
3. The call is cut #

Obviously this is really dangerous because I need navigation to see where I am going, and when the screen gets captured by the phone app I am wildly pressing a touch screen device with only half an eye on the road trying not to add 20 minutes to my commute by missing a turn. #