What apps do you use to organise your life (and how many of them did you build yourself)?

When I was eleven years old, in 1989, I built my first "mobile app".

It was a grid of LEDs and diodes in a little wooden box. I used a DIP switch to select the day of the week, and it would tell me which things I had to put in my schoolbag that morning.

These days, I'm doing more or less the same thing. I wake up, check my sleep score and weigh myself on my Withings scale, have a coffee and then strap on my MYZONE belt and start my Fitbod app. I work out for an hour. Some days I run for 20 minutes, tracked by my Apple Watch.

I sit down for breakfast (fruit) and am reminded by the Good Habits widget on my home screen to take my vitamins. I check this off and note my daily reminders to "be kind" and "smell the roses" (this is an attempt to shake me out of my work-dominated consciousness at least once a day).

I shower (first hot, then as cold as I can get it, to get my brain in gear), get dressed and get on my bike to my studio five minutes away.

I open up my laptop and go to Donegood which tells me the first thing I need to do today. A typical day will have a time-boxed sequence of tasks: write for 15 minutes (anything... this post, for example!), 20 minutes dealing with email and other messages, 20 minutes admin (miscellaneous unpredictable tasks that could take 10 seconds or multiple days to complete) and then my Should Do list (a list of things that I know, in my heart of hearts, that I should be doing, even if I don't currently feel like it).

I see my tasks one at a time. One daily task is to add all the random ideas I've had the previous evening into my lists so that I get presented with them as a priority sooner or later.

I track every second I spend working.

I go home for lunch and come back for the afternoon's work. At a random moment during the day, my phone will ping me to ask "How are you?". It's Changes asking me to track my happiness. This gives me a long-term record of what I consider the most important metric: whether changes I have made to my life are making me happy.

While I am working I'll often be using some combination of apps that I have created to make my life easier. Shoot is a camera and telestrator app that lets me use my iPhone or iPad as a webcam when I'm recording videos or live streaming. Beat Sheet is a script editor, teleprompter and controller app that makes helps me to record live videos to camera. I'll use my Coda doc to brainstorm and schedule content. I might use my script to timeline app to convert a video script into a Final Cut timeline.

If I decide to play some music on Twitch I'll use Easy VJ to add visual interest to my live streams. I'll use my Twitch bot to manage my stream description and tags. If I want to add a new song to my roster I'll use my Deluge apps to load audio stems and MIDI onto my hardware sequencer.

In the evening I get home and am reminded by Good Habits that I need to meditate. I don't meditate for long (15 minutes) but I try to do it every day. I stick my phone on a tripod and use Sit Still to encourage a disciplined, self-supported posture.

Different days will have different schedules - I use Mondays to work on whatever I've been thinking about the most over the weekend. Thursdays are a "free swim" where I am allowed to code whatever I want to code to scratch my latest itch or create a new feature requested by one of my users. The rest of my time is supposed to be spent on marketing. Week-to-week it's a gradually evolving but very consistent routine.

So that's me. Do you have a similar approach to life? Or do you find this whole thing preposterous?