Best Way to Track Stalled Projects: Apps vs Ledger
Habit apps or a plain-text ledger? A first-hand comparison of what each one actually records about stalled projects — and which one restarts them.
Habits & Routines
How to Use ChatGPT to Change Your Life: The Log Method
How to use ChatGPT to change your life: the failure-log loop that let a non-coder ship real software. Format, steps, and the limits, explained.
Best System to Track Goals and Tasks: 3 Compared
Notion vs Obsidian vs a plain text ledger. A comparison of the best system to track goals and tasks — judged on one thing: does stalled work start moving again?
How to Quit a Project Without Guilt: 30-Day Review
How to quit a project without guilt using a 30-day discard review: the weekly checklist, the keep/discard line, and why most surfaced items get dropped.
How to Organize Notes So You Can Find Them Later
Index notes by symptom, not topic. A practical method for organizing notes so you can find them at the moment you need them, with a before/after index table.
How to Stop Starting Projects and Not Finishing Them
You don’t lack discipline — you lack a cap on starts. A backup scan surfaced 41 abandoned tasks. Here is the 2-item rule that fixed it, step by step.
Learn to Build Without Coding: My Failure Log Method
I shipped working software without being able to read code. Here is the failure-log method, the categories that repeated most, and what the research says.
How to Stop Quitting Goals Halfway: The Two-Item Rule
How to stop quitting goals halfway: a work-in-progress cap of two started items per project. Ideas stay unlimited, only starting gets rationed.
Work in Progress Limit: Personal Productivity Rule of 2
The two-task rule caps started work at two items per project. Why a work in progress limit beats any to-do list, with the exact intake question to use.
How to Know When to Quit a Goal: The 30-Day Review
How to know when to quit a goal without calling it failure: a 30-day discard review that surfaces stalled goals weekly and makes keeping the exception.