Mindstream

Mindstream is a looping chat room that facilitates conversations between the past and the future. 

Many stories and games explore the idea of a time loop, reliving the same day over and over. Imagine reliving the same minute over and over, adding to the thoughts that you had over the course over past runs. 

The current build is a looping personal chat log for someone to use to speak to themselves in layered sprints, adding voices to a chat log with every single loop that responds to previous messages or begins new trains of thoughts. Using JSON save files, a user can either pick up where they left off or load up someone else's messages and converse with them.

The ask is to get help putting it online and connecting people together in one instance. I created this entirely with ChatGPT as a proof of concept, and have no experience creating multi-user software. I would like both more hands on deck on this project, and also a group of people to bounce ideas with regarding better ways of "resurfacing" and re-engaging with text in an age where it is so easily lost. 

• Short term goals: Getting a multi-user version of this online, optimizing the interface for collaboration, integration with the existing Open Research Institute's community stack.
• Long term goals: Working in the larger space of lightweight and immersive output interfaces. Also, exploring the idea of location-specific chat logs. 
  • I am generally interested in how text itself is already an augmented reality interface, but one which is often globalized and extensified rather than localized and intensified. Imagine everyone in a town sending their thoughts out, and them appearing in every text stream (chat or feed form) within a certain spatial or temporal distance. Imagine Pokemon Go, except you go around town to see what thoughts you can find. A chatlog for life which you can use to leave notes anywhere in the world, but specifically for others in the same time and space. Similar to airdropping, but across time? 

The win condition for this application is that it helps communities of writers and thinkers generate more meaningful communal documents that fit in with the regular rhythm (music) of their daily schedules and situations. 

See my project LECTIO DIVINA, a writing tool prompts you first with Bible verses then with your own past responses. Also see quasi carmen and Tower of Babel, both "games" that help writers and creatives dive back into their own thoughts and ideas in novel ways.