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+# Refactor Goals
+1. Speed things up. Relying on things.py (and python in general) makes the code slow. Add in the fact that the
+`nix-shell` logic tends to run every day and pulls down the universe, the current day reporter is quite slow
+2. Clean up the code. Using a better language will help some, but in particular using a bonafide templating library
+should improve the code.
+3. Stability. Using `osascript` with the Things AppleScript API will avoid future problems that `things.py` is
+constantly running into because they are overly coupled to the Things sqlite database schema.
+
+# Ideas
+- Move to rust using `osascript` to drive interactions with things
+- Write a small library of scripts in JS that rely on the OSA infrastructure to call out to things, and package up
+content into JSON for ease of use in rust.
+
+# Resources
+I found a really great gists for working with osascript and it even has Things examples: https://gist.github.com/tommorris/99bcbbcf445bb6475797