[Method] Morning Routine for Students

Imagine having a personal robot assistant that you have programmed and built. It monitors your sleep and wakes you up when it best fits your sleep cycle with a song you've been listening to a lot recently from Spotify. It prepares an outfit for each day based on what's in your calendar, the weather, and how your mood seems, lays it out beside your bed. It switches on the lights to max when waking you up. Then it tells you exactly what microtasks to do (get up, go to the bathroom, brush your teeth, etc). If you don't do the things its built-in AI psychology subroutine gives you a pep talk ("oh c'mon, u/kinipoop, I know you can do this!!! You are so strong for even trying!!!"). It has a built-in coffee brewer of course and serves it to you in bed.

It keeps track of your calendar, and plans all your work for you so that you never fall behind. Each day it gives you a to-do list and it has a computer programme that disables everything else on the computer at 12 am each night, showing ONLY the things you need today for your to-do list (if you're in school it shows you the pages you need to read and the questions you have to answer, if you're a programmer it only has an IDE, if you are a writer it just has a simple word processor.) If you have to look something up, you ask your robot and the robot helps you. If you try to look up something unproductive like "how to get motivated to do more work", "r/getdisciplined" or "easy 5-minute chocolate cake in microwave", the robot saves it for later and says that you don't have time for that now, but you are obviously restless so you should go for a walk around the block.

When you finish your to-do list for the day, the computer goes into a new mode where it only shows you stuff you consider a hobby or want to do more of. For example, if you've been meaning to get started with graphic design but never seem to find time for it, it only shows you Inkscape or Gimp, or if you want to learn Slovenian it only shows you the Slovenian Duolingo course (which sadly doesn't exist, please make that change!). Once you have finished something in that, it reverts to the normal mode, and you can happily spend the rest of your day watching YouTube.

The robot isn't a servant to make you lazy - it doesn't wash your dishes or clean your floors unless you are in genuine need of it (say you are sick or disabled, or in a big hurry). It's your cheerleader and your buddy, and gives you a helping hand when you really need one.

It also monitors your physical activity, your social activity and your mental health using a small clip-on device you can wear on your shoelace. It designs exercise programs to suit your needs, it analyses how "popular" you are and your status in social circles by using its AI so that it can give you good advice for how to change your behaviour (if it notices that you are very clingy, it tells you how you can modify/improve your behaviour for better returns, if you talk very loudly and it disturbs people it tells you, if you think you have no friends it tells you which people might possibly be interested in talking to you based on body language, etc). Basically like a brutally honest friend with superhuman therapist abilities.

That was a long comment. Hope somebody's still reading...

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