Derailments
spanishderailed for $0, which I feel silly about, so the badge is yellow. I meant to go to the library and get a children’s book in spanish to work through, and forgot until after they closed, and instead of doing anything else I just mentally uncled out of it. It was at $0 though so I don’t feel that bad, although I do wish I could have literally uncled out of it[forum]—but alas. It was about time for me to ping @dreev somewhere and beg for it again anyways!
Breaks
- 2024W07–2024W10: No breaks planned.
Changes and notes
- Oh gosh, stopping those hobby-goals was so helpful. I’ve finally been able to get back on top of OitNR[blog], a task at least two months in the making, modulo long breaks. I didn’t stop that many goals, but just enough to free up enough mental space to Do Things.
- Accordingly, no new goals or adjustments: I’m luxuriating in “feeling comfy”. I haven’t forgotten about
priority-progressandslow-chess, though; in re: the former, I’m working on jailbreaking my old kindle to use as a display for my priority list, though I fear it might be on too old a firmware for the particular mod I was planning on using. We’ll see. - @poisson will be pleased (or at least startled into his own action) that I stumbled across my TAPs[forum] page in my notes, all of which I’d completely forgotten, but the review for which I’ve now put in my
weekly-reviewchecklist (for which the rest of: see below). My Sapience Spell—triggered when I scratch my nose or crack my knuckles—came back immediately; my “pick up floss after putting down toothbrush” goal apparently successfully became so habitual I forgot it was once a thing I had to teach myself to do, which is heartening, and my “trim my beard when I feel the shower water and it’s not hot enough” TAP is obsolete because my bathroom is now the closest room to the water heater so it will never have a chance to trigger. Any suggestions for new triggers to attach to "tidy up scraggly beard hairs " are welcome!
Weekly Review Checklist
To head off the obvious question “what is ‘review TAPs’ alongside, exactly?”, my weekly review goal has me
- Gather inputs from browser tabs
- Gather inputs from journal
- Check on any waiting-fors (I use some dataviewjs[github] blocks in Obsidian to automate detecting Project files that have active tasks in their Waiting For category)
- Consider every someday/maybe and discard stales or promote to active projects
- Process inputs to bugs/actions/projects/do-immediately
- Empty “Project without actions” (another dataviewjs block)
- Scan actions for stales & completes
- Check in on [[TAPs]] (which links to the TAPs page that I stumbled across that prompted this update).
This checklist lives in the same file in Obsidian as the references dataviewjs blocks as well as a massive block that pulls together all the Next Actions from all my project files and categorizes them.