An app for having conversations with your parts

There's huge room out there for developing an app for readily having conversations with yourself. Lots of people have tried hacking systems together with pen & paper or elsewhere. Sometimes I just do a doc/email with normal text + italics... #ThingsIWantToExist t.co/DyS43weh7T

Feb 10, 2022

but it would be cool to have a system for really quickly switching between voices using hotkeys or something, and having them colorize differently could build this from a chat app demo in like 1h

Mrs C @captain_mrs · Oct 19, 2020

Just tried riffing off this and it was glorious Amazing how much I can get out of me if I just give parts of myself a different colour pen and let them group-chat it out. Who needs more rest? Who needs more support from whom? Who can take the lead? Who needs a voice?

quoting @nickcammarata: Sunday morning is IFS all-hands. The part-of-the-week comes on stage and we give them a big ribbon and play our song and do Q&A

that would also allow searching based on which part of you sent the message, or filtering to see only messages from a certain part or only conversations between two parts

what else would I like to see here? I mean the main puzzle is how to get to a good-enough MVP that a bunch of people use it and you can see what's missing. and I literally think you could do that in a day or so

ah yeah! @snarayan built @antar_app for this, which got decent uptake (>10k downloads on android) I downloaded it a long time ago but I've kind of forgotten about it for some reason. I prefer to chat on my computer (or at least with a keyboard) I'll pin it to my homescreen now!

ooh! what if it had an extra button to pull in a random response from <something>? could be... - GPT-3 Alan Watts - an actual Alan Watts quote - prompts from therapists etc - your own previous messages/notes that are relevant somehow - ELIZA rogerian psychotherapist ai from 1966

such prompts could be good for getting unstuck or just increasing the sense of engagement like sometimes you bounce away from a chat but you come back when the person replies. this could do that if you leave for a minute without ending the session! I think that'd be v powerful

would also be good, from a coherence perspective, to be able to pin certain messages as items that you want to review can help integration to regularly look at previously-unconscious things you've uncovered

what else would be cool to have in an app like this? & go check out antar.chat & let @snarayan what you think!