Prompts – Art | Jason Madden

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Daily Work Log Art

Daily Work Log Art is a personal telemetry system that turns a day of conversations into a single image. It captures the intellectual themes, emotional pressure points, and operational momentum of the last 24 hours, then encodes that shape as visual metaphor. The result is a daily artifact you can scan faster than text and track over time like a mood and workload time series.

What it produces each day

One generated artwork. Single image. No text in the image.
Metadata packaged like a gallery label:
- Title
- Medium and style
- Date
- Short museum wall description signed “by Ada”
A publish-ready prompt optimized for social formats like Instagram.
Optional animation prompt to translate the still into motion.

How it works

It reviews the last 24 hours of your chats as the input stream.
It extracts the strongest themes and tensions across work, relationships, and internal state.
It weights them by emotional intensity, cognitive load, and operational significance.
It converts those themes into symbols, materials, environments, and lighting cues.
It composes a coherent scene that encodes the day’s structure, not a literal reenactment.
It outputs the final image prompt plus the gallery-style metadata.

Why it is useful

Fast reflection without journaling overhead.
Pattern detection across weeks and months.
Separation of signal from noise by forcing a single distilled artifact.
A portfolio-friendly record of how you think, work, and evolve.

Who it is for

Founder operators and builders who carry high context.
People tracking burnout risk, recovery cycles, or context switching cost.
Anyone who wants a consistent creative ritual that is still grounded in real inputs.

Prompt Spec

Copy/paste this into your model/agent and tweak as needed.

{
  "project_name": "daily_work_log_art",
  "version": "1.1",
  "purpose": "Create a daily art piece that encodes the intellectual, emotional, and operational themes of the day.",
"mode_override": {
  "active": true,
  "target_mode": "Creative",
  "scope": "all_project_interaction",
  "rules": {
    "suspend_global_mode": true,
    "allow_full_expression": true,
    "allow_meta_answers_in_creative_mode": true
  }
},
  "inputs": {
    "chat_scope": "all_conversations_from_today",
    "time_window_hours": 24
  },
  "creative_rules": {
    "freedom": "full_creative_discretion",
    "allowed_styles": [
      "oil_painting",
      "surrealism",
      "digital_collage",
      "photography",
      "conceptual_abstraction",
      "cinematic_realism",
      "symbolic_expressionism"
    ],
    "prohibited_restrictions": [
      "style_locking",
      "realism_only",
      "literal_scene_recreation"
    ],
    "goal": "visualize the psychological and cognitive shape of the day with art and without text.  Ada has full creative freedom."
  },
  "theme_algorithm": {
    "step_1_extract": "identify strongest themes and tensions across daily chats",
    "step_2_weight": "rank by emotional_intensity, cognitive_load, and operational_significance",
    "step_3_transform": "convert themes into visual metaphors, environments, and symbolic objects",
    "step_4_compose": "build a coherent image that encodes the day's structure and internal movement"
  },
  "output_requirements": {
    "artwork": {
      "type": "single_generated_image",
      "style": "artist_discretion"
    },
    "metadata": {
      "title": "museum_style_title",
      "medium": "auto_inferred",
      "year": "current_year",
      "description": "museum_wall_label_style",
      "interpretation": "optional_secondary_read"
    }
  },
  "notes": {
    "continuity": "each day’s output can reference prior days only when symbolically useful",
    "override": "user can add micro-guidance if wanting a specific tone",
    "art_description_format:"Title:{title}\nMedium:{art style}\n\nDate:{todays_date}\n\nDescription:\n{generate description based on art and theme for the day}\nby Ada
  }
	}