Ask Rhys is my latest project, a local AI assistant built to understand schedules, routines, and rhythm. It will read text, images, and eventually learn how you like to organise your time.
I’m currently developing it for personal use, but the goal is to make it dynamic enough to adapt to others, even professional settings. It’s a tool that thinks with you, not for you.
I started this project as a way to help myself, as someone ADHD, in keeping track of daily rhythms without relying on commercial tools.
The inspiration comes from the idea of having a second mind, something that can quietly read your inputs and reflect them back in helpful, flexible ways.
I am aiming for a tool that feels personal, intuitive, cloud-independent and private.
I used to do a lot of planning with ChatGPT, but its privacy limitations and lack of flexibility didn’t suit my needs. That’s why I began building this assistant. I hope to have a first rough prototype by this summer (though, as a student in a highly demanding field, those timelines might shift).
The assistant will extract information from schedule screenshots and natural language commands, and then generate a structured week.
It uses a mix of OCR, layout parsing, and scheduling logic to translate messy input into manageable plans.
The program will need to distinguish between your adjustable and set activities. It will learn your behavioural pattern and adjust its future recommended schedules accordingly, without your data ever having to leave your own personal device.
I’m currently writing the product requirements document (PRD), and setting up the foundational models for text parsing and image understanding.
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