March 20th, 2025
One perpetual problem I have is not trying to figure out what it is that I want in life. In college, I spent every morning and night doing reflections on what I wanted and how I would get there. This made me very sure of myself back then, and I think it gave a sense of calm, confidence, and freedom that other people felt from me while I was interacting with the world.
These days, I don’t do any of that, and I’ve been quite lost on my direction. I don’t exactly know what I want, except I know there’s a direction I’ve been moving towards because I can’t stay still, otherwise I spiral down. These last 2 months, I’ve been continually going out and trying to meet new people, doing new activities, and improving myself, only to realize that once I strip away all the activities, I actually feel quite empty and I don’t know what I want.
I only realized this after I took a week of PTO and stopped filling my schedule with activities. I needed a way to make this a part of my daily routine or weekly routine because otherwise I would not stop to think and reflect about what it is that I actually want.
Funny enough, in order to do that, I created an application in order to address my issue with this.
I call it, the “Daily Reflections” application, which you can download here:
The goal of the application is to make it easy for someone to track their thought processes and writings, and easily be able to surface and compare their previous answers from the past.
This application was created heavily using Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and was probably the fastest I ever took to finish an application end to end with an idea I thought of.
If you find that the application is useful for you to reflect daily on your own thoughts and to make you focus on yourself, I hope it brings you closer to finding your true self! I, myself, will be using this application to continually reflect on who I am and will be updating this application as I find I want new features/fix existing bugs.
Thanks for trying out the application!