A walkthrough of a day in which I used the self-programming tool Methodable to systematically clarify and accomplish my goals

[what follows is crossposted from my personal blog (article link)]

I organized my thoughts and to-dos, and did my highest priority tasks in a properly time-boxed way, and meditated. When all was done, I could say “I’ve done what I needed to do today and had a good time doing so,” which is just what I’d hoped - a far cry from the dopamine rut my “spidey senses” had warned me about that morning. And all the time I had a calm companion guiding me along: the voice of my prior intentions.

My view from the cafe where I’m currently writing

Today, I am sitting in a cafe, and writing about a different time I was sitting in a cafe… do I have you at the edge of your seat? I hope so, because:

If you are a new reader, you will be introduced to Methodable, my “human-programming tool,” a web app that helps people make systematic progress towards goals.
If you are a past reader, you will finally see a real-life Methodable use case!

In particular, I’ll describe a day during which I used Methodable to un-scatter my attention and gracefully navigate a complex landscape of personal projects. I’ll cover the entire day, starting from when I awoke and continuing through the creation of a seed program which ultimately blossomed into a comprehensive, tailored guide for my day.

Methodable is a quirky, unmaintained piece of software, but I still find it useful in my own life, and I hope you’ll enjoy learning about the patterns of thinking and planning that it enables.

Our story begins on a Tuesday morning.

A day with no clear path

Some days I feel I know what to do - I have clear projects, and clear tasks within those projects, and I can just “do”. And I really enjoy those days! But on many other days the path is not clear. This was such a day.

To start, I woke up with little energy and little bandwidth for work, as happens to me from time to time. And I felt quite scattered. I knew I had a lot of items on my to-do list, far more than I could handle, but I didn’t know which ones were really worth doing.

(Here’s what my to-do list ultimately looked like, but take note - at the beginning of the day, these tasks were not yet even collected into a single list!)

Having experienced these days before, my “spidey senses” were tingling: I knew I risked going off the rails and spendin...

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