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I built a local AI agent because I kept forgetting what I did at work all week
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I built a local AI agent because I kept forgetting what I did at work all week

via Dev.to JavaScriptzz lin2h ago

Hi DEV community! 👋 Let me start with a confession: I am terrible at weekly and monthly summaries. Every day, I do a lot of things. I jump between coding, debugging, reading documentation, answering messages, and handling sudden ad-hoc requests. But when Friday afternoon rolls around and it's time to write my weekly report, my mind goes completely blank. I literally forget what I actually accomplished. Worse yet, this constant context-switching leaves me in a perpetual state of chaotic task planning. I often lose track of what I should be focusing on next. I desperately needed a solution—a local work assistant that could "watch" my every move, help me untangle my daily schedule, and maybe even take some of the simple, repetitive tasks off my plate. Because I couldn't find a privacy-first tool that did exactly this, I decided to build it myself. Meet DoWhat — an open-source, AI-native personal work agent that lives entirely on your local machine. 💡 How DoWhat solves the chaos Running si

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