Work Feels
Poetic AI assistant
Overview
Personal reflection and emotional awareness in professional settings often get lost in the daily grind. People struggle to track patterns in their work experiences, missing valuable insights about their emotional responses, productivity cycles, and personal growth. Traditional journaling feels like a chore, and existing AI tools lack the poetic, human-centered approach needed to make emotional reflection engaging and meaningful.
I wanted to create an AI-powered platform that transforms work reflection into a poetic, insightful experience. The system needed to automatically capture user interactions and feelings, then use this data to provide meaningful patterns and insights over time. The challenge was to make emotional tracking feel natural and rewarding rather than burdensome.
I developed Work Feels as a minimalistic AI assistant that records, analyzes, and poetically presents users’ work experiences. The core implementation involved extensive prompt engineering to guide AI responses over extended conversations, building tools for journal entry management and poetry generation, implementing RAG and date-based search for pattern recognition, and creating data visualization features to help users understand their emotional patterns and insights.
The beta version attracted 26 research participants who actively engaged with the platform for several months, providing valuable feedback that validated the core concept. Users reported discovering unexpected patterns in their work emotions and appreciated the AI’s ability to surface insights they hadn’t noticed themselves. Many users particularly enjoyed screenshotting and sharing the AI-generated poems about their workday moments, prompting requests for native sharing features and other social elements to be added in future iterations. While data privacy remained a key concern, the platform demonstrates one way AI can be used to enhance human self-awareness, creating a tool that feels more like a thoughtful companion than a productivity app.