Lab

What is being tested, not merely celebrated.

An open, practical record of questions, setups, results and the useful failures in between.

Abandoned · Started June 2026

The health tracker I chose not to build

Question: Would a carefully designed no-shame tracker help on the days when tracking matters most?

Working with: Obsidian · design notes
Verdict: No — an empty dashboard would become a record of absence, not support
Next: Keep the lesson: a system that demands the most on a bad day has failed its own brief.

Finished · Started August 2026

Question: Can a small, read-only local workflow produce useful, evidence-backed connection suggestions without quietly taking over the vault?

Working with: n8n · Ollama · copied external bundle
Verdict: Four useful outcomes from five test sets; one refusal was the right answer
Next: Keep it manual and bounded; the remaining manual-alternative measure is not yet established.

Current · Started August 2026

Question: Can a site make scattered work easier to understand without becoming a second newsletter to feed?

Working with: Astro · Markdown · local development server
Verdict: Still testing the shape
Next: Judge the information architecture before adding visual polish or real-content migration.