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Experiments

Career goal trackerA career is a decade of decisions,
most of them made by default.

Careers move on a timescale that defeats attention. The decisions that matter — what you learn, who knows your work, what you say yes to — pay off eighteen months later, which is long enough that most people never connect the two and simply take whatever the next reorganisation hands them.

Free, no sign-up. Saves in your browser, downloads as a PDF or a spreadsheet, and imports into EvyOS in one click.

Where this is going

The gap

What somebody already in that role can do that you cannot yet.

CapabilityNowHow it gets closed

The moves

The visible steps — a project led, a talk given, a certification, a conversation had.

CheckpointByDone

The people

Careers are made of other people's opinions of your work. This is not cynicism, it is logistics.

WhoWhy they matterNext contact

The evidence

What you actually shipped, with the date. Fill it in as it happens, not in review week.

What you shippedWhat it changedWhen

Everything you type is saved in this browser only. Fill in a row or two and the download and import options will have something to work with.

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✦ How to use it

Three things that make it work.

1
Name the target honestly

The role, the level, the kind of work — whatever the actual aim is, including if the aim is to leave.

2
Write the gap as skills

Not "more experience" but the specific capabilities somebody in that role has that you do not yet.

3
Keep the evidence

Add to it as things ship. It is the section that pays for itself at review time.

This tracker holds four things: the role or position you are actually aiming at, the gap between that and now, the milestones that close it, and the people. The last one is the one technical people leave out and the one that most often decides the outcome.

It is built to be revisited quarterly rather than filled in once. The evidence table in particular is worth keeping up: at review time, the person who can produce a list of what they shipped is arguing from a different position than the person reconstructing the year from memory.

✦ The limit

A plan is not a record.

This page holds what you intend. It cannot tell you what you did, because nothing on it knows whether the checkpoint on the fourteenth happened, whether the habit ran for nine days or two, or which goal has quietly not moved since March. That is the honest limit of every template, printed or otherwise, and if it has never bothered you then this one is yours for free for good.

EvyOS is the same structure with the work recorded against it. Send this sheet across and the goals, checkpoints and habits arrive as real records with their dates — then progress comes from what you tick off rather than from you remembering to come back and update a slider.

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✦ Questions

Career goal tracker, answered.

The evidence table as things happen — it takes thirty seconds and is worthless if reconstructed later. The rest quarterly, which is roughly the rate at which a career actually changes shape.
Write the direction rather than the title: the kind of problem, the kind of team, the thing you want to be trusted with. A vague target you revisit beats a precise one you invented to fill the box.
It is the part most often left out and most often decisive. Promotions and offers are decided by people who have an opinion about your work; if nobody outside your immediate team has one, that is a fixable problem you can only fix deliberately.
That is largely what the PDF is for. The evidence table with dates, and the capability gap with what you have done about it, is a much stronger conversation than a general claim to have had a good year.
Each capability becomes a goal, each move and each person becomes a dated task, and the whole thing is kept as a note you can revise each quarter.

Keep the plan.
And the record of doing it.

Goals, projects, tasks, habits and skills in one system, with the work logged against what it belonged to.

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