one thing that messes me up when using complice.co sometimes is when I set intentions the night before, then I sleep in, and now those intentions are totally unrealistic for the day a kind of micro-staleness I guess
When the day changes and your intentions go stale
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like today I had a few hours of stuff I wanted to do before hanging out with my mum all afternoon, but instead of waking up at like 9 or 10 I woke up at 11:30 😕
I've thought for awhile about adding a button for scrapping one's plans for the day—actually I think I did add a hidden hotkey for that for a using with a kind of surprise chronic fatigue! but idk if that's quite right either
one thing I am noticing is that while I don't have time this morning to finish this writing that was my big task for today, there are a few other things that'll only take 5 or 10 minutes that I can totally do before I go see mum, and it'll feel really good to do those!
so maybe the thing I actually want to add to complice is a button/mode/UI where you say "hey, umm, situation changed, gotta reorient" and it guides you through reorganizing and not-today-ing your intentions until they make sense again
in the meantime I don't think I personally need much guidance to do that myself, I just need the awareness that it's the thing I need to do, which often I've failed to really acknowledge
it sucks, on any timescale, to realize your plans are out of date. part of why @CompliceGoals works so well is it doesn't actually force you to reckon with that mid-plan you just get to the end of the day, note that you did what you did, and plan anew for tomorrow
gonna live-tweet my experience of reorganizing though well, one thing is that I don't quite want to not-today the writing, since maybe I'll want to do it in the evening when I get back, but I also might be getting back late and/or tired...
you can always un-not-today something later, but yeah maybe I want to un-star it, and move it to after "hang w mum"? and un-star will function to say end of the day"not assuming this is top priority"
as I look at the end of the day, I notice that a couple of my daily intentions feel heavy - I've barely done them in weeks... they're sort of cluttering up my list as fake concepts of what my days are supposed to look like. so they need some of their own rejiggering 🤔
then there's lots of little 5min things, but some of them are designed to generate more things to do (eg "5 mins freewriting about videos I still need to upload") so those can wait til evening or whatever
hmmmm I'm gonna play with a (hidden?) feature I've almost never used, which is where you just make a divider by writing: ----------------- [any text here] so I can put my stale dailies & stuff under "extra"
okay, just appended a note on my morning routine intention: 5) no checking feeds til at least 1 pomo on frog & go outside - honored this upon waking late (goal 5 is about good solo-what-now)
and added a new intention for the evening 5) intentionally reorient to the evening when I get home and this: 3,4,5) thread about reworking complice intentions midday (goal 3 is complice app, goal 4 is complice growth)
okay, then I have two things to do prior to going to hang with mum, basically just two messages to send, one of which I even drafted yesterday wow! now this plan is actually realistic again! that feels so good!
idk HOW to make a guide for this, but that's... not something I'm intending to do today! 😉 I will put out tho: I'd love to see a case study of you reworking your own intentions in a situation like this! whether as a thread or just sent to me directly 🤩