Innovation Engine — wellness

On This Day — git time-capsule card

May 22, 2026

Each morning it digs up the commits Ethan made exactly 3, 6, and 12 months ago across every repo in ~/, then writes a warm 3-4 sentence reflection on what past-Ethan was building that day and delivers it as an e-ink card to the tablet. Ethan has a 'daily-rewind' for today and dozens of forward-looking briefs, but nothing that looks backward — this turns his own git history into a quiet daily moment of perspective with his morning coffee.

git repos across ~/~/Tablet e-ink syncgemma local LLMmorning-tablet-brief

Create ~/bin/on-this-day (~75 lines bash). Cron at 06:00 daily (safe-append pattern). Discover repos via `find ~/ -maxdepth 2 -name .git -type d`. For each target date (date -d 'today -3 months', '-6 months', '-1 year'), run `git -C log --all --since='$D 00:00' --until='$D 23:59' --pretty='%s'` and collect non-empty results with their repo name. Also grep ~/notes or quick-note files dated that day if present. Pipe the collected commit subjects to local `gemma` (Ollama) with a prompt asking for a warm, brief 'X months ago you were...' reflection. Render to ~/Tablet/on-this-day.md in the same card format as morning-tablet-brief so it syncs to the TCL Note A1 via tablet-sync. Append a one-line summary to the existing morning-tablet-brief output. Ship with a bats test asserting the date math and empty-history graceful path.

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