SlothBrief Offline: I Talk for a Minute at Night, and My Morning List Refuses to Exceed Three Things

Description and use

A one‑minute nighttime voice dump is locally transcribed and sorted into a concise morning brief with at most three tasks, preserving privacy and simplicity.

Problem

People struggle to capture and prioritize midnight thoughts into a manageable morning plan, often forgetting tasks or overloading their to‑do list.

Outcome

The tool produces a concise morning brief with at most three tasks, preserving privacy by running entirely offline and avoiding cloud services.

Workflow

• Record a one‑minute voice dump on phone
• Convert phone audio to 16 kHz mono WAV with ffmpeg
• Load Whisper open‑weight model via faster‑whisper (int8, CTranslate2) and transcribe locally
• Split transcript into sentences
• Match each sentence against explicit patterns (task phrases, contact verbs, errand words, time words, parking markers, worry phrases)
• Select the first three task‑like sentences in spoken order as tomorrow’s list
• Append remaining sentences under a “parked” heading
• Save the brief to a markdown file for review

Evidence

It transcribes the dump locally with the open-weight Whisper model, through faster-whisper. Nothing is uploaded. Offline mode is forced in code.

Source

It files each sentence as it goes: things that sound like tasks, people to contact, errands, anything with a time attached, worries, and ideas that are clearly a someday problem.

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Then it applies the only rule I actually care about: tomorrow gets at most three things.

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The sorter is heuristics, not understanding. "Maybe I should call the dentist" gets parked because "maybe" outranks "should" in my rules.

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