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Experiments

What should I work on?You have ninety minutes.
Here is the one thing.

The specific failure this addresses is the twenty free minutes. You have them, you look at a list built for whole afternoons, nothing on it fits, and the twenty minutes go to a screen. Repeated across a week that is a working day, lost not to laziness but to a mismatch between the time available and the granularity of the list.

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

List a few things and it will pick one.

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
Be exact about the time

Twenty minutes and ninety minutes want completely different work. Rounding up is how the twenty gets wasted.

2
Be honest about the state

Tired is not a moral failing, it is an input. The right task at low energy is a different task.

3
Take the answer

The point is to stop deciding. The deciding is what was eating the twenty minutes.

So this matches on the two things that actually decide it: how long you have, and what state you are in. A demanding piece of work at low energy is a worse choice than an easy one, even if it is more important — you will do it badly and then feel bad, which costs the evening as well.

One answer, with the reasoning printed. If you disagree, the reason you disagree is the useful part.

✦ 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

What should I work on?, answered.

Because importance does not fit in twenty minutes. The most important task attempted at the wrong time and the wrong state gets done badly and then has to be redone, which costs more than the twenty minutes was worth. Matching on time and state is what makes the slot usable at all.
The clock, your energy and the chance of interruption — and the lowest of the three is the real ceiling. The common mistake is planning against the clock alone, which is why ninety uninterrupted minutes and ninety fragmented ones get treated as the same thing.
No. At genuinely low energy most output needs redoing and the attempt costs you the following morning as well, so twenty minutes of rest is often the highest-return use of the slot. It says so rather than pretending otherwise.
Then the list is made only of large items, which is worth fixing at the source. A list with no small pieces cannot absorb the twenty-minute gaps, and across a week those gaps add up to about a working day.
No — it works it out and forgets. That is the honest limit of a page like this. EvyOS keeps the list and the record of what you actually did against it.

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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