2026-01-02

• Renamed ideas/ to projects/ – see notes below. Refs: My website RufusPollock.com
• Finalize Research Spec for Code-Style AI Tools for Writing Prose
  • Get raw content together
  • Create the research report
  • Create the blog post
  • ➰🌱 pattern emerging about having stuff in own repo or folder to allow this project like development.
• Continue projects/2026 Year Plan with Sylvie
  • Discovered I could z/connect google calendar to chatgpt – I wanted to analyze stats about my 2026 Year Plan
• Continue projects/year planning from yesterday
• DataHub planning – good session with team

Renamed ideas/ to projects/

Have been reflecting on how to name a section that contains things I am working on. Some of which are clearly active projects while others are still exploratory or only partially formed. I initially called this section "Ideas" to reflect the early, generative stage of much of the work, but over time many of these ideas naturally develop into concrete projects.

So … should this section be called "Projects or “Ideas" – knowing that in both cases will have some things that are just an idea and some things that are being realized?

Choice: Projects because …

"Projects" is a more conventional and legible label that matches user expectations and signals commitment and action, while still comfortably encompassing early-stage concepts. "Ideas" that contains realized work creates expectation mismatch, whereas "Projects" section with varying levels of maturity feels natural and requires no reinterpretation by the reader.