If you want to be Batman, get some "help"

Batman and I have a lot in common. Wait...false...no we don't. And I think I know why...it has to do with how our lives are organized. You all know the Bruce Wayne/Alfred relationship, so that's covered. Now to understand why Bruce Wayne is Batman and why I am Procrastinatorman among other things...could it be because commercial technology is not sophisticated enough yet...?

Alfred handles everything, even tying Bruce's tie

The Concept of "the help"

My siblings and I had a very privileged upbringing. We lived in one of the most affluent communities in the country, participated in countless after school activities/sports and attended private schools (In my opinion, a preschooler cant tell the difference between a coloring book and a year of schooling that costs the same as a new midsized car...whatever Dad, it was your money lol). To afford these luxuries, my father was always working and I... was always terrorizing nannies. My nannies mostly performed chauffeur and homework enforcement duties. Some of my schoolmate's "nannies," however, were quite different. Being a "nanny" for the ultra-wealthy is a high paying career. These individuals would be more appropriately named "personal assistants" or "family managers." They  ensure that the family operates smoothly and that all the minor details of the home life are taken care of so their employers can focus on their careers or leisure. The ultra-wealthy just want life's everyday minutia "taken care of" because they don't want to waste their time "fiddling with it." So, they pay to people to manage their houses and children for. This expense makes sense if you consider the opportunity cost of, say, going to the pharmacy when your billing rate is over $1,000 an hour.

So, I had a nanny. Some of my friends had "Janes" (named after the most famous of the "family managers")

As usual I got thinking. I've been wanting to organize my life for a while and I would like to be more like Batman. I am really bad at staying organized and my brain is constantly over-thinking things. As a result I forget the less important things or lose focus while attempting to complete them. Unfortunately, I cannot yet afford to pay someone upwards of $100,000 to handle all the stupid little organizational tasks that--indulge my fantasy here--are beneath my hyperactive brain. So, I pondered a way of replicating Alfred for less.

Alas, the hyperactive brain's imagination has created a solution: "Life Management Planning Software." Much like Enterprise System Software in the business world, which controls everything from raw materials requisition to the production of tax forms, LMPS would similarly facilitate every aspect of my life across an equally broad range. Essentially, I want to create the ultimate, all-encompassing information system/mash-up application to make my life more productive. Right now the closest thing that resembles such a system is the iPhone due to personalizability in the application "after-market." While this is a revolutionary product (duh), it is a far cry from the system I am envisioning. When I want a certain chore "taken care of" and Apple joyfully tells me "there's an app for that," I feel my problem is not solved because I still have to "fiddle with it" to download each new app. Furthermore, these applications don't communicate with each other, which creates redundancies. I want everything at my fingertips. I want the system to be able to do everything, do it right, and free my time up for other things.

So, let me explain to my idea of an all-encompassing Life Management Planning System.

1. It should be interactive so as to accept a wide variety of inputs (audio, visual, barcode, RFID, temperature, etc.) You might find this little video quite amusing.
   

1. One program with one login. 
2. Communicate with and manage other obligations in my life: 
1. House: security? efficiency? utilities? bills?
   
2. Car: service needed? gas?
3. Refrigerator/pantry: eating habits? low inventory?
4. Pool: chemicals?
5. Wardrobe/closet: inventory? clean/dirty?
   
3. Little Black Book aka social organizer: It should incorporate all my personal/leasure and professional/business contacts  by syncing up with every online social network to which I belong (Facebook, Digg, Stumble, etc).
4. Datebook: It should have an incredible calendar application that is linked with google maps. 
5. GPS: hand held unit should have a fully mashed Google maps function that sync w/ calendar, camera etc
   
6. Email
7. Personal Finances: Finances should be accessible (assets from every location from every holding) as if Mint.com was in my hand. And financial summaries should be available at request.
   
1. Should perform financial forecasting/consulting tasks
2. should be able to prepare tax forms
8. Outputs: It should be able to produce deliverables (e.g. financial results/forecasts/estimates, productivity analyses, pictures, pre-made checklists, directions, other print outs) for any life pursuit. 
1. For instance, if I'm getting married the system should be able do act as a wedding planner by locating/procuring products/services needed for the wedding; designing the invitations (and having them sent away to be printed). 
2. If I'm applying to college I want the software to replace a "college admissions coach." It should alert me as to upcoming admissions deadlines, connect with collegeboard.com, help me locate SAT test tutors or classes, and locate scholarships.
9. Monitor my Health and Fitness: Of course it would, sync with medical databases, my doctor, my insurance and pharmacy. It would even know when to renew my prescriptions or make an appointment. I would also use it to monitor my fitness training and eating habits. 
10. Event Organizing/Travel Planning: The system would also handle event planning and traveling of course.
11. List Generator
    
12. Digitize many services: nutritionist, travel agent, trainer, wedding planner, tax accountant, college admissions coach, tutors, financial consultant, pool man

Essentially, I want a software system to fill the gaps between organizations that currently require me to remember some unimportant detail which I always manage to forget thereby living under the shadow of what the untrained eye would call "irresponsibility and disorganization." If I had an organizer of this calibur, I too could fight crime and kick ass in a bat suit.

An inspiration for some of my desired characteristics in my product:
http://mashable.com/2007/10/26/100-ways-to-organize-life/