Before AI could organize my life, I had 43 worktrees to clean up
My personal assistant was meant to help with calendars and email. Its development folders needed attention first.
I am building a personal AI assistant to handle things such as calendars and email. The idea is to make the small chores of daily life a little easier.
Then there is this entry in the development notes.
September 3, 2026: removed 43 development worktrees on Windows. None had uncommitted changes.
Forty-three.
Before the life-organizing system could organize much of anything, its own development environment needed tidying up. Apparently my working directories had a fuller calendar than I did.
Individually, a very useful feature
A Git worktree lets you work on another branch of the same repository in a separate folder. You can leave one piece of work in place while trying a different change elsewhere.
That really is useful. It just sounds more defensive when followed by the number 43.
I do not have a heroic story for every single folder. What the record establishes is that there were 43 of them at cleanup time, and none had uncommitted changes. It does not mean I finished 43 projects. I will resist converting directories into achievements.
Keeping the contents safe was the serious part
The same day’s notes record moving a production environment configuration out of a working folder and into the main repository’s working directory, then checking that it remained excluded from Git.
Having no uncommitted changes is not a substitute for checking ignored configuration files. A cluttered directory is not automatically disposable.
The settings and their storage details are not included here. Publishing secrets in a story about tidying up would turn it into a very different story.
I also built the assistant’s Google calendar and email tools. That part appears in my article about permissions and input schemas.
That one is about OAuth and APIs. This one is about the person building a convenient tool having 43 working directories.