I stopped looking for convenient tools and started building my own AI-powered OS

Hello, I'm Reiji Kuga.

A little while ago, I found myself searching for information I was sure I had looked up before.

I definitely read it once, and I have a memory of saving it somewhere.

However, I don't know if it was in my browser bookmarks, a chat with an AI, or a note-taking app.

I'm sure I saved it. Probably.

But if I don't know where I saved it, I end up having to search for it all over again from scratch.

By the time I finally reached the information I needed, I was already a bit tired before I even started my work.

We are no longer in an era where information is scarce.

If you search, you can find most of what you want to know. If you ask an AI, it will return something that looks like an answer in a few seconds.

Compared to the past, obtaining information itself has become surprisingly easy.

And yet, I felt like I was spending more time searching for information than I used to.

Searching time was stealing my creation time

I am currently working on producing a metaverse drama while simultaneously juggling several activities, including game development, AI utilization, writing on note, blogging, and posting on social media.

As my activities expand, the information I need also increases.

There are days when I research video production, and days when I check game development designs. I also think about my blog and social media posts while keeping up with new AI developments.

The problem was that this information was scattered in different places.

Searching for what I discussed with an AI before, trying to remember the policies I decided on the day before, and searching for saved articles all over again.

If I change the AI I use, I sometimes have to explain the same premises all over again.

Each one is a small task that takes only a few minutes.

But when those few minutes add up, it becomes quite significant.

On weekdays, I work on my creative projects and development after I get home from work. I don't have much free time.

I started to feel a growing sense of discomfort about spending that limited time on preparation before creating, rather than on creating itself.

It's not that I dislike searching for information.

It's that searching eats away at the time I have for creating.

For me, that was the more serious issue.

Even though things were supposed to become more convenient, the number of places I had to manage only increased.

There are many convenient tools in the world.

There are services for saving information, apps for managing tasks, tools for writing, and an increasing number of services for chatting with AI.

I have tried many of them, and there are some I still use today.

However, the more tools I added, the more places I had to store information.

Where did I put this note? Which folder did I put this document in? How much did I explain to this AI?

Even though I introduced them to make things more convenient, I realized I had also increased the work of managing the tools themselves.

It's not that existing services are bad.

Every service has a way of being used that the creators intended. For people who fit that design, it is very convenient.

However, it wasn't built with an understanding of my entire range of activities.

For someone like me, who is simultaneously creating dramas, writing, developing games, and gathering information, managing these things in separate places had become a burden.

I wish this part were a little different.

I wish this feature were connected to that task.

I want to reduce what I don't need and keep only what I truly use.

Even if I felt that way, until now, the user had no choice but to adapt to the provided system.

Instead of looking for tools that fit me, I build them to fit me

That's when I came up with the idea of building my own personal OS.

The OS I'm talking about here isn't a base software like Windows or macOS.

It's more like a personal work foundation that supports my creative work, content distribution, and development across the board.

Instead of constantly searching for tools that suit me, I am building the system itself into a form that is easy for me to use.

In the past, even if I had thought of this, I think it would have ended there.

Building a personal system requires specialized knowledge. It also requires development experience, and in some cases, a team and funding.

It wasn't something an individual could easily take on.

But now, I can organize my thoughts while consulting with AI, create designs, and gradually shape what I need.

Of course, it doesn't mean everything is completed just by asking AI once.

Sometimes it doesn't work as expected, and there are days when work stops because I don't know the cause of an error.

Even when I think I've moved forward, there are times when I have to review the design and rebuild it.

Even so, I am now able to reach for things that I would have previously given up on, thinking, 'That's probably impossible for me.'

Not to increase information, but to make it usable

What I am trying to build is not something for collecting massive amounts of information.

If it's just information, we already have more than enough.

What is needed is to make it easier to find the information I need and to put it in a state where I can connect it to the next action.

I don't want to have to search for things I've already looked up from scratch every time.
I don't want to have to start by remembering what I decided the day before.

I want to be able to connect past work and decisions directly to the next task.
That is the kind of environment I want to create.

For drama production, I can look back at settings and production records.
For game development, I can carry over designs and progress.
For content distribution, I can check what I've written so far and what kind of reactions I've received.

Instead of treating each task as separate, I am connecting my entire workflow into a single flow.

It is still far from complete, but even with just one small mechanism working, the vision that existed only in my head suddenly starts to look like reality.

If I connect these things little by little, it might actually become an environment tailored just for me.

The moment I realized that, it felt quite exciting.

First, I will build something I want to use every day

At this stage, I am not thinking about selling it to anyone yet.

I feel that if I try to cater to many people from the start, I will end up drifting away from what I truly wanted again.

That is why, for now, I am building something that I myself want to use every day.

I am refining it little by little, tailoring it to myself, including my work hours, creative flow, and even my habits when handling information.

If a form that could be useful to someone else with the same problems emerges from that, I will think about it then.

First, I will make something that can genuinely solve my own inconveniences.

That comes first.

What I wanted was not more information

Since the arrival of AI, the speed at which we create text and images has changed significantly.

But for me, the biggest change was the realization that I might be able to build things myself that I had previously given up on due to a lack of specialized knowledge.

What I am building is also still just at the beginning.

There are days when things do not go as planned, and I do not even know what the final form will look like yet.

Even so, things that were only in my head are starting to actually move, little by little.

Come to think of it, what I wanted was not more information.

It was a system to reduce the time spent searching and reclaim the time spent creating.

Instead of constantly searching for what someone else has prepared, I am gradually building the environment I need myself.

It has only just begun, but what I have wanted for so long is starting to take shape.

Of course, there is no way I wouldn't be excited about this 🤭

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