Field notes
When organizing your life becomes the work.
Notes on the parts of productivity that people actually complain about: executive dysfunction, thought overload, setup friction, and the energy cost of keeping a system alive.
Why people abandon task managers that technically work
The hidden cost is often not the list. It is the maintenance required to keep the list meaningful.
Read draftA brain dump is not a bad task list
Unstructured capture can be the most honest starting point if the system knows how to work with it.
Read draftAI task systems need uncertainty and undo
A trustworthy assistant should show what it inferred, what it changed, and how to take it back.
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