My Life Runs in a Markdown File

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:36:21 -0400

I have a Claude Code-powered personal assistant that runs on a schedule. It reads my email, my calendar, my texts, the kids’ school calendar, my plant care schedule, the weather, and my custody plan. It writes the day to a markdown file every morning and updates that file every 15 minutes throughout the work day. Most of the time it doesn’t tell me anything — that’s the point.

The whole thing lives in a git repo I call life/. About 6,000 lines of markdown, a handful of shell scripts, 17 slash commands. Here’s a partial list of what it does in a normal week, all without me asking:

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My Life Runs in a Markdown File