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The need

My agents and tools produce a steady stream of things: news digests, reports, summaries, the output of every other app on this site. Without one place to see it, all of that would pile up in files and terminals that nobody in my house would ever open.

What I built

A small web app, installed on our phones like any other app, that gathers that output into tabs. Each tab is a purpose-built view for one kind of thing. It runs on a Mac mini at home and is reachable only over a private network, so there’s no login screen and nothing on the public internet.

What changed

It’s the working system my household is gradually learning to run on. It’s also where I learned the hardest lessons about letting agents act for me, which became the first Journeyletter pieces:

• All of my agents write memos. None of them act.
• I couldn’t answer four questions about my own button.
• A button is a claim.