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The ultimate website to organize your life

Just tell it everything you know about yourself, and it takes care of the rest of your life.

The ultimate website to organize your life

by

Peter Miller

Just tell it everything you know about yourself, and it takes care of the rest of your life.

My wife has suggested, or perhaps predicted, a new website or app. It would be titled In My Way and work like this. You would sign in, establish a user name and code, and then submit all of your details. Model of car, make and year of roof shingles, dentist/doctor/healer/masseuse/urologist etc. for you and each family member.

Also: faucet types, cat type, bedding type, model and make of all electronics, frying pan type, garden details, planting intentions, wall coverings, sports teams, sports played, soccer clubs, airlines preferred, bank loans, mortgage, all about your food (what mayonnaise, water, meat, fish, soy sauce, pickle, bread,oil, asparagus, grape etc.), your address, what routes you take and when, what buses, trains, rails, what lunch you hope for, movies, theatre, wine....

The temptation, of course, would be for the site to then alert you to sales on any particular — and boy would there be sales. But we are shooting for higher fish than that, shooting for what would or will get IN YOUR WAY as you head out to seize the day. You will get a ticker-tape like report, part time specific and part general but just in, rolling along with, a kind of infodata Athene:

Carpe diem.

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By Peter Miller

Peter Miller is owner of Peter Miller Books, a store in Seattle specializing in architecture and design books. You can reach him in care of editor@crosscut.com.