January 
birding checklists goal - going well
February 
March I have broadened the scope of this goal that counts total pages on my TBR list, which grows exponentially as the book gets “older” since obtaining - now it includes not only bought books but all titles somehow obtained (e.g. ARCs, scans from libraries) and it’s been going really well since then.
April 
writing up parts of my research is the hardest element of the entire process, and this goal failed massively. Yes, I have been putting some words into the Word doc, but it’s still very far from the desired result. I also messed the graph badly by not tweaking the date-value-rate relation before adding the vacation week break and weekends-off, so by the last week of the months it’s just looking absolutely horribly and counter-productive. I decided to “uncle” derail yesterday and finish the goal and try something different to the same end in May instead 
, starting a bit early (hence the entire earlier-than-usual update)
May: I now have two manuscripts with real-life deadlines coming up soon-ish, so I will be tracking the number of pomodoros dedicated to just writing. Looking at secondary literature only counts if I am searching for a specific quote! (I tend to believe I always need to read around more.) I will need to stil re-read one large primary text for the second manuscript, so that would count. The rate will be 6 a day, and I am doing 25/5 pomodoros with Intend.do - so it’s 3 hours daily (the remaining time can go to “reading around”). Weekends off, and I will do 3 remaining work days of April with half the rate because of other urgent errands.
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