Whys
Why am I doing this at all?
An app for your Whys. It asks you questions about something you are doing, keeps the answers, and pulls out the points that make up your reason for doing it.
What it is
Whys is built on the idea that a good Why makes the other questions incidental. Each Why belongs to a user and is worked out through question and answer sessions, which the app stores in order.
How it is structured
The schema is small. A Why has a name and an owner. Each Why can have several Q&A sessions, and each session holds a numbered sequence of question and answer pairs.
From those interactions the app extracts key points, and each key point is typed. The three types are: purpose (a strong and practical or validated purpose), negative pressure (what pushes against the thing not existing), and direction (a clear direction, if not a destination). Every key point records which interaction it was extracted from, so the reasoning can be traced back to the conversation it came from.
Status
The repo is an early Astro project with the data model in place. It has not been developed further since January 2025.