Hulu

Life Operating System
I’d use this
PERSONAL LIFE OPERATING SYSTEM · FIELD TEST

Stop scattering your life
across apps.

I built Hulu as my own command center for notes, tasks, habits, research, and reflection. Now I’m sharing it to see whether this should become a real product for people who want one calm place to run their day.

Yes — I’d use this See what it does

A real personal system, shared publicly to see if it should become something others can use.
No launch yet — just measuring real interest.

The operating rhythm
Capture → Clarify → Execute → Reflect
Hulu command dashboard showing daily priorities, capture, and system modules.
Manifesto

The Philosophy of Coherence

"Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. Yet your ideas scatter when your tools divide them."

01 / The Cost of Drift

Defeat attention fragmentation

Every time you jump between six disconnected applications to capture a note, record a habit, edit a project, and review flashcards, your cognitive load increases. Hulu eliminates the friction of context-switching by combining everything into a unified operational layer.

02 / The Power of Loops

Deliberate review pipelines

Captured thoughts only become valuable if they are actively integrated. Hulu enforces structured midday, evening, and weekly audit queues to convert raw captures into tasks, knowledge base files, or learning syllabi, preventing backlog accumulation.

03 / Compound Learning

Spaced repetition integration

Don't let insights slip away. Hulu pairs standard web research with an internal spaced repetition (SRS) memory engine. Note details flow straight into study courses, generating flashcards automatically to build permanent, retrievable knowledge.

System Architecture

The Matrix of Operations

Executive Dashboard

A unified overview displaying active focus targets, immediate capture queues, spaced learning ratings, and a composite daily score.

Dashboard Score Engine

Inbox Capture Desk

Fast note and URL capture. Includes custom heuristic categorization and AI metadata suggestions (titles, tags, and next steps).

Ingestion AI Enrichment

Projects & Kanban

Decouple operational targets. Includes Kanban grids, scheduler calendars, pinned tasks, and blocked subtask dependencies.

Execution Task Boards

Habits & Wellness

Record binary checkbox habits and numerical variables (sleep hours, water intake, mood) with 180-day consistency heatmaps.

Consistency Wellness Log

Reflective Journal

Morning Intentions and Evening Review prompts. Markdown-supported text fields compile thoughts with local storage auto-save backups.

Journal Auto-Save

Academy Library

Organize custom learning tracks hierarchically: Course → Module → Lesson. Take inline notes while exploring syllabus material.

Academy Curriculum

Spaced Repetition (SRS)

Flashcards generate from lesson notes automatically. Flip cards, self-score recall, and let the scheduler recalculate intervals.

SRS Engine Flashcards

AI Research Agent

Build syllabi dynamically. Scrapes authoritative web sources via Exa, drafts modules, and tracks API token cost limits.

AI Agent Exa Crawl
The Story

Built for real personal operations, not a VC pitch.

We live in a hyper-fragmented ecosystem. We dump loose ideas in Apple Notes, coordinate tasks in Todoist, track habits in Streaks, reflect in Day One, research topics in Notion, and query ChatGPT in a separate tab.

Our attention is split across 6 disconnected tools, and our knowledge fails to compound. Hulu (ሁሉ) was born from this exact friction.

It is a single, integrated environment that treats life management like a high-integrity Operating System. It combines structured databases, spaced repetition learning matrixes, and local AI agents into a single, cohesive framework. No distractions, pure momentum.

Rhythm of operations

A Day In Hulu

07:00 / Align

Morning Intentions

Wake up to a clean, focused broadsheet. State your core focus for the day, check active schedules, and log initial wellness markers (mood, sleep hours) on the ledger.

12:00 / Ingest

Frictionless Capture

As you read, browse, or code, throw raw notes, URLs, images, or snippets into the Inbox Capture Desk. Keep your immediate focus clear; let local heuristics and AI categorize details for later.

14:00 / Execute

Focus Pomodoro Block

Fire up deep-work sessions. Link focus timers directly to execution tasks on your Kanban board. Custom AudioContext synths signal end-of-block transitions automatically.

21:00 / Reflect

Evening Review & Spaced Study

Perform an end-of-day audit. Log daily lessons in the markdown editor, review flashcards scheduled by the spaced repetition (SRS) queue, and inspect your composite daily Life Score.

Sunday / Audit

Weekly Sprint Audit

Enter the Review Room. Clear remaining captures, archive completed projects, reset habit grids, and flag database staleness to plan the upcoming sprint cycle.

Engineering Specs

High-Integrity Technology Stack

Framework

Next.js 16

Engineered with Turbopack and React 19 to guarantee instant rendering, zero layout shifts, and sub-100ms route transitions.

Database

Supabase

PostgreSQL schema relations and real-time subscription channels sync data changes immediately across views.

Intelligence

Gemini 1.5 Flash

AI pipelines crawl Exa search results, auto-categorize inbox slips, and build custom study course outlines on-demand.

Sound Synth

Web Audio API

Audio notifications synthesize tones directly in-browser using sine wave oscillators, removing heavy asset dependencies.

Your life data is yours alone. Protected by Row Level Security.

Hulu is architected with strict PostgreSQL Row Level Security (RLS) policies. Every query payload is strictly bounded by `auth.uid() = user_id`, meaning database records are isolated to your account. No tenant data leaks, no telemetry, and complete encryption.

Questions & Answers

Frequently Asked Questions

Notion is a general-purpose block editor. It lacks native state engines to calculate streaks, run Pomodoro tab syncing, manage spaced repetition flashcard schedules, and enforce review intervals. Hulu is structured, rigid, and built specifically for personal operations, removing layout fiddling.
Hulu uses an optimized SuperMemo-inspired interval algorithm. Failing a flashcard schedules it for review in 10 minutes. Passing a card increases the recall interval multiplier, pushing it out to 1 day, then 4 days, then 8 days, optimizing memory retention.
Yes. Hulu caches major data pipelines inside local state. Capture slips are backed up locally in localStorage so that draft notes are never lost if connection drops, syncing changes back to Supabase once online.
Adonay is a designer and engineer who wanted to run his execution, learning ledger, reflection, and AI workflows in a single, high-integrity workspace. He built Hulu (ሁሉ) to consolidate his own daily life operations and keep his cognitive focus coherent.

Would you want to use something like this?

Hulu is built as a unified personal life operating system. Share your email and thoughts to let us know if you want it to become a complete public product.

Yes — I’d use this
01Connect your life

Capture notes, tasks, habits, and flashcards instantly inside a single high-integrity workspace without app-switching friction.

02Establish the rhythm

Convert daily capture logs into actionable items through structured midday, evening, and weekly audit loops.

03Move with focus

Engage the executive dashboard, spaced repetition engine, and wellness consistency logs to keep your focus coherent.