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QiLife Build Phases

Phase 0 - Review Docs

Goal: produce coherent product, architecture, and schema docs before coding.

Phase 1 - Spine

Goal: build the core nervous system.

Build:

App shell
Left nav
Center workspace
Context Dock shell
QiBit model
Buckets
Threads
Actions
Timeline
Inbox
Ask QiLife placeholder

Success criteria:

  • User can capture a QiBit.
  • QiBit appears on Timeline.
  • QiBit can be assigned a bucket and thread.
  • QiBit can create an action.
  • Action can have steps.
  • Context Dock can show placeholder context.
  • Ask QiLife page exists with placeholder response.

Phase 2 - Daily Command Layer

Goal: make the app useful every day.

Build:

Today dashboard
Due and scheduled action views
Open loops
waiting_on items
Today's QiBits
Daily summary placeholder
Basic calendar view
Reflection prompt

Success criteria:

  • User can see what matters today.
  • User can see open loops and waiting_on items.
  • User can see what happened today.

Phase 3 - Context Layer

Goal: bring knowledge beside the work.

Build:

Knowledge item CRUD
Markdown rendering
Linked note/reflection QiBits
Documents metadata
Person pages
Thread summaries
Context Dock enrichment

Success criteria:

  • Knowledge can attach to buckets, threads, actions, QiBits, and people.
  • Context Dock displays relevant linked knowledge.
  • Central Knowledge page is navigable.

Phase 4 - Money Layer

Goal: track transactions and obligations.

Phase 5 - AI Layer

Goal: make AI useful and connected.

Phase 6 - Import/Export and QiNexus Alignment

Goal: make data portable while preserving repo docs as canonical during build.