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-# Gemma
-
-Gemma is a simple application to track *recurring* tasks, named after Gemma
-Hartley who [wrote an article][] about task distribution issues in households.
-
-## Background
-
-(Skip this if you just want the technical bits)
-
-Gemma's article launched a discussion in my friend circle about what causes an
-uneven distribution of household workload. I theorised that this is not so much
-a gender issue, but mostly a discoverability issue.
-
-Usually one person in a household is aware of what needs to be done, but in many
-cases the "overhead" of delegating the tasks would actually take more time than
-simply doing the task.
-
-I theorise further that the person (or people) who do a smaller share of the
-household work would often do the work if they had a convenient way to become
-aware of what needs to be done. Many times the "household manager" has the
-function of tracking non-obvious tasks like when bedsheets were last changed -
-shouldn't it be possible to actually distribute this information somehow?
-
-## The Project
-
-This project is an initial attempt at sketching out a little application that
-aids with reminding users of recurring tasks. Some basic ideas:
-
-* The system should be blame-free.
-* There should be as little usage overhead as possible so that people actually
-  do use it.
-* It should work mostly passively without much user interaction.
-
-I believe that the basic (*very* simple) idea behind Gemma solves these issues.
-Unfortunately my living situation changed before I actually got to test this out
-in a real-life situation involving multiple people, but feedback from other
-potential test subjects would be welcome! :)
-
-## Overview
-
-Gemma is a Common Lisp application in which a list of recurring tasks is
-declared, together with the *maximum interval* at which they should be completed
-(in days). Example:
-
-```lisp
-;; Bathroom tasks
-(deftask bathroom/wipe-mirror 7)
-(deftask bathroom/wipe-counter 7)
-
-;; Bedroom tasks
-(deftask bedroom/change-sheets 7)
-(deftask bedroom/vacuum 10)
-
-;; Kitchen tasks
-(deftask kitchen/trash 3)
-(deftask kitchen/wipe-counters 3)
-(deftask kitchen/vacuum 5 "Kitchen has more crumbs and such!")
-
-;; Entire place
-(deftask clean-windows 60)
-```
-
-These tasks are marked with their last completion time and tracked by Gemma. A
-simple Elm-based frontend application displays the tasks sorted by their
-"urgency" and features a button to mark a task as completed:
-
-![Gemma screenshot](http://i.imgur.com/n7FFMJH.png)
-
-Marking a task as completed resets its counter and moves it to the bottom of the
-task list.
-
-In theory this *should be it*, the frontend is made available to household
-members in some easily accessible place (e.g. an old phone glued to the fridge!)
-and people should attempt to develop a habit of checking what needs to be done
-occasionally.
-
-The "household manager" still exists as a role of the household because someone
-is entering the tasks into the application, but if my theory about people not
-actually being actively *unwilling* to do tasks is correct this could help a
-lot.
-
-## Usage
-
-(*Note*: Gemma is alpha software so the below is clearly not the final goal)
-
-Right now using this is non-trivial, but I'll eventually make a better
-distribution. Basically you need to know Common Lisp (in which case you'll know
-how to get the backend running) and have `elm-reactor` installed to run the
-development version of the frontend application.
-
-Gemma is configured via a configuration file that should be located either at
-`/etc/gemma/config.lisp` or at a custom location specified via the environment
-variable `GEMMA_CONFIG`. Have a look at the `config.lisp` file in the repository
-root for an example.
-
-[wrote an article]: http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a12063822/emotional-labor-gender-equality/