Thoughts

I should really set up some automations to collect these business expenses as they come in that way it's not a bunch of work when I need the info.

Open Brain Session 10 COMPLETE: Set up 3 of 9 capture points interactively. (1) Voice/Siri Shortcut "Capture Thought" working on iPhone/Mac, fixed 401 from trailing backtick in URL. (2) Google Calendar Apps Script with 7-day lookahead, filters Reclaim and holidays, daily 4-5 AM trigger. (3) Gmail bridge Apps Script with smart filtering (captures everything except social/newsletter noise), hourly trigger, full body capture. 6 remaining capture points: Apple Notes, Claude.ai export, Notion bridge, Perplexity/Gemini, Instagram signals, WordPress import. Gmail filter is a living system that will improve as new noise senders are identified.

Google Voice is Dave's primary client communication tool. All client texts and voicemails route through Gmail via @txt.voice.google.com and voice-noreply@google.com. Once the Gmail bridge (Google Apps Script) is set up, two Gmail filters will auto-label all Google Voice threads as "brain-capture" so every client conversation flows into Open Brain automatically. No manual labeling needed. Client names extracted from GV threads will be searchable across all brain content.

Dave Tedder thinks in systems and wants everything connected. He is building toward full automation of all non-tattooing work so he can dedicate his time to art.