The page is not a brochure. It is a working tracker for deciding which household workflows deserve build time, which ones need caution, and which ones can wait.
Project Log · Las Jaras v2.0
Las Jaras Ops Command Center Project Log
A running record of how the household AI tracker is being shaped into a real operating layer for Las Jaras: what changed, why it matters, what facts anchor it, and what still needs measurement.
11starter workflows in current build
5rating dimensions per workflow
1,800sqft living area represented
10,275sqft lot driving site planning
Current version: v2.3. The command center now has Las Jaras identity, cobalt-blue square/panel styling, house-profile facts, kitchen outline, Household Food nested under Kitchen, Lighting + Smart Home links, Schertz Birds management, a 14-day IoT setup sprint, recurring Sunday Cibolo and Tuesday Schertz food-planning tasks, two planning workflows, a standalone garden/site planning diagram, a phone-friendly field checklist form, shared private page gate, and a fuller audit trail of the actual tracker surface.
Main benefit: household AI work now has a product-style scoring surface while still feeling specific to the actual house: a 1952 Schertz home with a gardenable lot, storage/deck structures, and missing interior-room geometry we need to measure ourselves.
Next best work: capture a simple interior walkthrough, collect 10-15 key measurements, and use field-checklist exports to revise the schematic garden site plan into a measured version.
Las Jaras
cobalt-blue household systems lab
Build Method
Las Jaras is treated as a real old house with constraints: public records provide area and parcel facts, but room placement still needs direct measurement.
The public-facing page keeps useful planning facts but avoids turning Labs into a direct address or parcel lookup page. Exact source links and identifiers stay in private workspace context.
Each workflow gets impact, autonomy, effort, risk control, and delight scores. The priority score weights high-impact, high-autonomy, bounded-risk work first.
Browser localStorage keeps the command center portable and fast without a backend. That is enough for the first review habit; export/import can come next.
Cobalt is the house color. The prior green-tinted squares and bars were changed to cobalt-blue treatments with small warm accents for contrast.
House Facts Captured
Public records point to 1,800 sqft of living area: a 1,240 sqft main floor plus a 560 sqft addition. The house is a 1952 single-family home.
The lot is about 10,275 sqft, roughly 75 ft by 137 ft, angled relative to true north. That is enough to use GIS as the exterior planning base now.
The record includes attached unfinished storage, covered porch area, detached storage, an uncovered deck, and portable storage. Those pieces matter for site planning and workflow design.
Command Center Surface
The hero links directly to the scoreboard, house profile, garden site plan, field checklist, workflow rating form, and this build log.
The top metrics show tracked workflows, average overall score, top priority score, and active/candidate workflow count.
Workflow cards are sorted by priority and show area/status metadata, notes, tags, overall score, priority score, and a visual rating bar.
The table preserves workflow notes alongside area, status, overall score, priority score, and delete controls so the tracker can be reviewed quickly.
The form updates an existing workflow when the name matches, or adds a new workflow when the name is new. Starter data can be restored from the same panel.
The baseline records cover pantry pickup, expiration radar, garden heat, GIS site modeling, interior floor planning, morning briefs, lighting control, errand routing, and household memory.
The command center now summarizes the two-zone kitchen model from the storage map: KZ-1 for cooking/wet/coffee-side storage, KZ-2 for pantry/fridge/intake storage, and the two-doorway traffic split between them.
Pantry inventory, pickup planning, expiration tracking, cookbook work, and long-term storage planning now sit inside the Kitchen section instead of floating only as generic household workflows.
Sunday Cibolo H-E-B pickup planning is now a recurring Household Food task, paired with Tuesday Schertz follow-up planning for missed items, fresh food, substitutions, and household goods.
The command center now links directly to the Hue planning file, lighting intake, local Home Assistant, setup notes, and the local control wrapper.
Artifacts
projects/las-jaras-garden-field-checklist.html
Phone-friendly form with autosave, photo upload previews, measurements, hose-bib checks, shade observations, notes, copy summary, and JSON export.
projects/las-jaras-garden-site-plan.html
Standalone schematic SVG page showing parcel dimensions, the true-north reference, structures, storage, deck, sun zones, watering zones, and field-check assumptions.
projects/household-ops-command-center.html
Interactive cobalt-blue tracker with profile cards, workflow cards, filters, scoring, and localStorage editing.
projects/household-ops-command-center-build-log.html
This full project log, expanded from the original short template entry.
docs/household-ops-command-center-build-log.md
Markdown build notes using the Labs template shape, now updated with the tracker controls, workflow set, artifacts, gate, and next work.
assets/las-jaras-gate.js and assets/las-jaras-gate.css
Lightweight local page gate used by private Las Jaras household-planning pages without putting an account system behind a static microsite.
Design Decisions
The parcel geometry is good enough to start garden optimization. The interior is not. A phone walkthrough plus measurements will beat stale listing media.
The site describes the house as cobalt, practical, garden-aware, and a little stubborn. That gives future automations a consistent voice and behavior standard.
Workflow notes preserve the boundary: the AI can prepare, clip coupons, draft lists, and recommend. Buddy confirms before money moves.
The page can show house-operating facts without exposing exact public-record links or identifiers on a likely-public Labs surface.
Version Log
What changed
Created the first Las Jaras Ops Command Center as a static Labs project page with starter workflow data and browser-local scoring.
Project benefit
Moved household AI ideas out of chat history and into a visible tracker where they can be compared and reviewed.
What changed
Added a template-shaped Markdown build log, a companion HTML page, project index metadata, sitemap entry, and links from the command center.
Project benefit
Made the build discoverable in Labs and gave the project an audit trail, even though the first log was still too thin.
What changed
Renamed the house context to Las Jaras and aligned the microsite around the cobalt-blue house identity.
Project benefit
Stopped the site from feeling generic and made it clear this is a household operating system for a specific place.
What changed
Added house-profile cards, public-record-derived planning facts, a house personality section, cobalt square/panel styling, GIS site-model workflow, and interior floor-plan workflow.
Project benefit
Gives future AI workflows a physical model to grow from: site plan first, interior plan after direct measurement.
What changed
Expanded the build log into this full project log modeled after the André Mack build notes page, with stats, method, facts, artifacts, decisions, and version history.
Project benefit
Creates a real running record for the Las Jaras system instead of a short launch note.
What changed
Added a standalone Las Jaras Garden Site Plan with an inline SVG parcel diagram, approximate lot dimensions, true-north reference, structure placeholders, sun zones, watering zones, and measurement caveats.
Project benefit
Turns the exterior GIS idea into a planning artifact that can guide garden optimization now and improve as real measurements arrive.
What changed
Added a phone-friendly Garden Field Checklist with measurements, photo upload previews, hose-bib checks, shade observations, garden asset capture, notes, autosave, copy summary, and JSON export.
Project benefit
Creates the field-capture workflow needed to update the site plan from schematic to measured and useful.
What changed
Expanded the build log to capture the full command center surface: hero actions, metrics, workflow cards, filters, rubric, scoreboard, add/update/delete behavior, restore-starter-data control, starter workflow list, localStorage persistence, and shared private gate.
Project benefit
Makes the log match the actual product instead of only documenting the house-identity and garden-planning pieces.
What changed
Added a Kitchen Outline section to the command center with KZ-1 and KZ-2 zone summaries, storage rules, the doorway traffic boundary, and links to the full kitchen diagram, editable diagram, and left-pantry diagram.
Project benefit
Brings the kitchen storage model into the household operating dashboard without overwhelming it with the full cabinet-by-cabinet map.
What changed
Moved Household Food into the Kitchen area with cards for inventory source, pickup rhythm, and waste radar, plus direct links to inventory, current inventory view, food workflows, H-E-B list, pantry cookbook, and two-year storage plan.
Project benefit
Makes the command center hierarchy match the way the work actually runs: food is part of kitchen operations, while the workflow portfolio remains the scoring layer.
What changed
Added recurring task cards for Sunday Cibolo H-E-B pickup planning and Tuesday Schertz follow-up planning, generated the first dated Cibolo pickup proposal, and added the Sunday pickup task to the starter workflow set.
Project benefit
Turns the household food section from reference links into an actual weekly operating loop.
What changed
Added the missing Lighting + Smart Home section with direct links to the Las Jaras smart-home plan, lighting intake, local Home Assistant, setup notes, config folder, and wrapper script. Added Lighting Control Bridge to the starter workflow set.
Project benefit
Makes lighting visible as a first-class household operations system instead of burying it in workspace notes.
What changed
Added VicoHome bird feeder camera management to the smart-home plan, Home Assistant helper entities, the command-center Smart Home section, and the starter workflow set.
Project benefit
Keeps the feeders visible in household operations while respecting VicoHome's app-only official integration limits and marking the unofficial Home Assistant bridge as opt-in.
What changed
Added a direct Schertz Birds nav and hero link, linked the VicoHome card to the Home Assistant integration page and 14-day IoT plan, and added the IoT 14-Day Setup Sprint workflow.
Project benefit
Turns the bird feeder, lighting, dashboard, alerting, and affiliate-prep work into a two-week execution schedule with clear approval boundaries for external signups.
Next Work
Use field-checklist exports, photos, and real measurements to revise the schematic site plan into a measured garden-planning base.
Collect 10-15 room and opening measurements, then create a rough interior plan that is useful for maintenance, storage, lighting, and automation decisions.
Add export/import for localStorage so ratings can be backed up and restored across browsers.
Add a monthly Las Jaras workflow review: promote useful candidates, retire noisy systems, and update scores based on lived evidence.