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Notes on energy-based task management, incubating tasks, and building a task system that survives an off day.

A person at a desk picking one card from three stacks with different energy levels — choosing the task that fits their current energy.

Why You Can't Start Your To-Do List — and How Energy-Based Task Management Fixes It

Why you can't start your to-do list — and how energy-based task management fixes it by matching tasks to the energy you actually have right now, labeled by energy and nature.

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A few task-cards resting upright on a wooden shelf, a hand gently setting one more card down — a restful place to park tasks.

Tasks You're Not Ready For Don't Have to Rot on Your List — Try Incubating

Tasks you're not ready for don't have to rot on your active list or get deleted. Incubating is a third state — parked with zero upkeep until you're ready to pick them back up.

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