IF·THEN

See the future your choices create.

IF·THEN is a personal consequence simulator that turns daily decisions into visible futures.

Core features include:

Daily route crafting
Natural language route queries
Automatic Google Calendar sync

It helps people move from intention to action by making time, habits, and trade-offs tangible.
Not as motivation — but as cause and effect.

If you keep living like this… then this is where you end up.

Why IF·THEN exists

Procrastination isn’t laziness.
It’s uncertainty.

Most people don’t change because the future is abstract.
IF·THEN makes the future concrete.

Instead of asking what you want to do, IF·THEN shows you what happens if you don’t — and how small changes compound over time.

What IF·THEN does

Transforms goals and habits into branching future timelines
Shows cause-and-effect over days, weeks, and months
Lets users edit decisions and instantly see downstream impact
Turns time into something you can reason about, not just schedule

This is not prediction.
It’s simulation.

How it works

1. Timeline-first life model

Time is represented as a continuous, editable timeline
Days are treated like footage, not lists
If it’s not on the timeline, it doesn’t exist

2. Natural language → structured time

Users speak normally:

“I work late most nights and scroll till 2am.”

IF·THEN:

Extracts habits, constraints, and patterns
Places them on the timeline
Builds a baseline life trajectory

3. Branching futures (core feature)

From the same starting point, IF·THEN simulates:

Current path — no change
Improved path — small discipline
Focused path — enforced structure

Each future explains:

What improves
What breaks
What compounds
Why it happens

4. Edit decisions, not tasks

Drag a habit → future recalculates
Remove a behavior → timeline degrades
Add structure → long-term stability appears

You don’t manage tasks.
You manage consequences.

5. “Show me my future”

IF·THEN generates:

A short narrated scenario
Visual snapshots of key moments
A causal explanation linking today → tomorrow

No prophecy.
No fantasy.
Just logic applied over time.

What IF·THEN is not

❌ A to-do list
❌ A habit tracker
❌ A motivation app
❌ A calendar wrapper

IF·THEN does not ask what you want to do.
It shows what you are choosing to become.

Philosophy

The future is not guessed — it is accumulated
Small decisions matter more than big intentions
Structure creates freedom
If you can see consequences, you can change behavior

Discipline works best when it’s visible.

Use cases

Beating procrastination through consequence awareness
Life planning in unstable or chaotic environments
Career and skill trajectory simulation
Habit impact visualization
Decision-making under uncertainty

Roadmap (high level)

Gemini-powered long-horizon reasoning
Real-time future recalculation
Timeline playback (scrub through outcomes)
Multimodal future summaries (text + visuals)
Offline-first personal modeling

Technical architecture

For setup instructions, system design, and Gemini integration details, see architecture.md.

Status

IF·THEN is an active experimental project exploring how AI reasoning can make long-term consequences visible — especially where external structure is weak.

License

MIT

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Install / Use

README