An overview over use case categories:

0. Import data from where it exists today:

   • Data rights manager
   • Exercise right of access
   • Exercise right to delete.

1. User for their own benefit

   • Data palace, personal archive
   • The place for information work
   • Unified personal news feed with pluggable algorithms
   • Self-tracking, self-analytics
   • Personal AIs

2. When interacting with others like them

   • Decentralized publishing and sharing
   • Decentralized social media
   • About me page
   • Productivity environment for groups
   • Data-rich community spaces

3. When interacting with businesses

   • Personalization endpoint
   • Data sharing contract negotiator
   • Identitiy and data provider
   • Intelligent agent / empowered digital twin
   • Demand channels
   • Offer channels
   • VRM use cases

Ideas

Here is a collection of ideas.

More importers, of course

• The rest of Google:

  • Gmail. Parse senders and receivers, augment address book. Keep threads.

  • Youtube.

  • Location

• The rest of Facebook, including:

  • Location. Needs to be merged with Google’s.

• Amazon, in particular:

  • Purchases DONE

• LinkedIn, further augmenting the address book.

• Netflix watching history.

• macOS address book

• Web browsing history. Needs a browser plugin? Maybe a bookmarklet?

• Banking and credit card info

• Various data brokers

Viewlets

• Easy correction of misidentified people / profile matches.

• Augment Person Viewlet so other properties can be edited easily, like addresses, e-mail etc

• Address book record “aging” … people who we haven’t had contact with in a long time “fade out” of the work set.

• various graphs with self-analytics, e.g. photo post frequency, Facebook post frequency, most common e-mail addressees etc

“Rooms”

A “room” is a workbench created for, and optimized for the needs of a particular use case.

A “project room”

Different variations depending on the type of project. Has:

• to-do items
• “in-box” with bookmarked URLs. When bookmarking anything, a special flag tags the bookmark to be relevant for this project, and then it shows up in its in-box until “worked down”.
• list of stakeholders (relationships to instances of Person) with a project-specific set of notes.

“Research room”

Special case of a “project room”. Can be applied to different types of research, e.g. competitor research (“market for X”) or product research (“Which CLR should I buy?”).

• list of products/companies, each with a description, link that’s specific to the project
• list of “features”, each of which defines a data type (e.g. boolean: product does / does not have certain feature like “Japanese user manual”, or weight)
• fill in “matrix” between company/product and feature
• relationship to bookmarks, identifying the source of the information for the value in the matrix.

etc. etc.