Of the ones you listed, these are my absolute favorites:
Let me specify my goals and ask if I'm actually working towards them or getting distracted by other work -- VASTLY underrated!! It could stay pretty simple where we create goals for our projects (like specific KPIs or more qualitative goals) and it analyzes how effective our tasks are and generates a weekly/monthly/quarterly report for us. Or it could be more robust and something similar to WeekDone where we set OKRs and track progress towards them, and it's highly visual. (Highly recommend checking out WeekDone since it's insane value for free.)
Ask what percentage of my work is marketing/development/support/bugfixes -- as a freelancer, this would be IMMENSELY helpful because I struggle tracking my time between client work vs outreach vs marketing vs admin. I have Toggl set up, but I'm not as vigilant with logging time in there. Being able to set categories for different tasks then track how we're spending our time would be the gut punch I really need to stop lying to myself about how I'm allocating time.
I really like these:
Ask it what to work on next: If this were an option, we'd have to go back to adding unfinished to-dos, but I really like this idea. I currently use SkedPal, which is an AI calendar where I set priority level, duration, and time map, and it creates my schedule for me. It's pretty robust, but a simpler system here could be helpful, especially if it's paired with the goal setting one. (So for ex, it could say, "Based on your goals, these 3 tasks are recommended next." That way it gives us an option so we can choose which one we can do/want to do next.) Linking it to goals is something SkedPal does NOT do, and I've yet to find a product that does this.
Have it constantly suggest useful content (YouTube, blog posts, books, podcast episodes, etc) related to what I'm working on -- but only sparingly and not constantly because that would get overwhelming being inundated with resources. If it were a chat feature where we could ask, "Based on this task's objective, what are the best [format] resources to learn how to [do task]?" I'd find value in that. Or even being able to ask, "Who should I follow/which newsletters should I sign up for to learn more about [topic]?" would be pretty cool. Knowing that I do tend to get distracted by consuming content vs actually working, though, is my only hesitation.
The last one would take the focus off of WORK and put it on LEARN, and I think the ethos of WIP is that we're taking action and not getting distracted/paralyzed by information hoarding. It'd be a pretty fine line to walk.
Since I'm not technically a maker (yet) and more a freelancer and community builder, I, personally, wouldn't have much use for the similar tasks one, BUT it'd be fun for us to be able to search for people who'd be potential users/clients. :)
This is a FASCINATING idea!
Of the ones you listed, these are my absolute favorites:
Let me specify my goals and ask if I'm actually working towards them or getting distracted by other work -- VASTLY underrated!! It could stay pretty simple where we create goals for our projects (like specific KPIs or more qualitative goals) and it analyzes how effective our tasks are and generates a weekly/monthly/quarterly report for us. Or it could be more robust and something similar to WeekDone where we set OKRs and track progress towards them, and it's highly visual. (Highly recommend checking out WeekDone since it's insane value for free.)
Ask what percentage of my work is marketing/development/support/bugfixes -- as a freelancer, this would be IMMENSELY helpful because I struggle tracking my time between client work vs outreach vs marketing vs admin. I have Toggl set up, but I'm not as vigilant with logging time in there. Being able to set categories for different tasks then track how we're spending our time would be the gut punch I really need to stop lying to myself about how I'm allocating time.
I really like these:
Ask it what to work on next: If this were an option, we'd have to go back to adding unfinished to-dos, but I really like this idea. I currently use SkedPal, which is an AI calendar where I set priority level, duration, and time map, and it creates my schedule for me. It's pretty robust, but a simpler system here could be helpful, especially if it's paired with the goal setting one. (So for ex, it could say, "Based on your goals, these 3 tasks are recommended next." That way it gives us an option so we can choose which one we can do/want to do next.) Linking it to goals is something SkedPal does NOT do, and I've yet to find a product that does this.
Have it constantly suggest useful content (YouTube, blog posts, books, podcast episodes, etc) related to what I'm working on -- but only sparingly and not constantly because that would get overwhelming being inundated with resources. If it were a chat feature where we could ask, "Based on this task's objective, what are the best [format] resources to learn how to [do task]?" I'd find value in that. Or even being able to ask, "Who should I follow/which newsletters should I sign up for to learn more about [topic]?" would be pretty cool. Knowing that I do tend to get distracted by consuming content vs actually working, though, is my only hesitation.
The last one would take the focus off of WORK and put it on LEARN, and I think the ethos of WIP is that we're taking action and not getting distracted/paralyzed by information hoarding. It'd be a pretty fine line to walk.
Since I'm not technically a maker (yet) and more a freelancer and community builder, I, personally, wouldn't have much use for the similar tasks one, BUT it'd be fun for us to be able to search for people who'd be potential users/clients. :)