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Skill tree generatorYou cannot learn it all at once.
There is an order.

Almost everybody learning something alone makes the same mistake: they start with whatever is most interesting rather than whatever is most foundational, hit a wall built out of a missing prerequisite, and conclude they are not clever enough. They are; they just took the tiers out of order, and the wall is what a missing foundation feels like from the inside.

Free, no sign-up. Worked out in your browser, nothing sent anywhere, and the result imports into EvyOS.

Name the skill.

Everything is worked out in this page and saved in this browser only. Nothing is sent anywhere.

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✦ How to use it

Three things that make it work.

1
List everything, unordered

Every sub-skill you can think of. Sorting is the tool's job.

2
Mark what you have

Honestly. Being generous here produces a tree that starts above where you are.

3
Work the lowest incomplete tier

Skipping ahead is exactly the mistake this exists to prevent.

A skill tree fixes that by making the order explicit. Foundations first, because everything above depends on them. Then working ability, which is the tier at which the skill starts being useful and where most people should stop. Then depth, which is where the returns get steep and narrow.

The tier you are actually on matters more than the total number of things you have listed. Most people are one tier lower than they think, and the honest answer is the one that makes the next step obvious.

✦ The limit

An answer is not a record.

This works something out and then forgets it. It cannot tell you whether the number moved, because it has no memory of the last time you ran it and no idea what you did in between. Every calculator on the internet has that limit, 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 the result across and it becomes real goals, tasks or habits with their dates — then the next answer is computed from what actually happened rather than from what you remember typing.

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✦ Questions

Skill tree generator, answered.

Because higher tiers assume the lower ones. Learning out of order produces walls that feel like a lack of ability and are actually a missing prerequisite — which is the single most common reason self-taught people conclude they are not clever enough.
Anything that other things depend on and that nobody can work around. If skipping it makes three later items impossible rather than merely harder, it is a foundation.
Usually not. Tier two is where a skill becomes useful, and the returns above it are steep and narrow — worth it only if this is the thing you are actually for. Most people feel guilty about stopping at tier two for no good reason.
A line starting with ! is one you already have. It is how the tool works out which tier you are actually on, which is usually one lower than people expect.
Download it, or send it across: the skill becomes a skill record in EvyOS with a level and a target, and the current tier's remaining items become tasks.

Keep the answer.
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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