Goals, with milestones under them
The thing most tools leave out. A goal is not a task; it is a heading that tasks and habits hang off.
Anything you do twice, a machine should do forever.
I’m Gianfranco. I build the systems that delete my own busywork, and I write down the ones that work.
01 — The problem
Four apps, one to-do list, and none of them talk.
Goals in one place. Habits in another. Tasks in a third. A calendar that knows about none of it. Every Sunday you rebuild the same plan by hand, and by Wednesday it is already a lie.
Placeholder. Two or three sentences that make the reader wince in recognition — the specific, boring cost of the thing being wrong. Name the Sunday evening. Name the tab you keep open. This is the only beat where being uncomfortably specific is the whole job.
02 — The answer
So I build the thing that was missing.
Small, finished tools that remove one specific kind of busywork. Not a platform, not a methodology — software that does the boring part and then gets out of the way.
StewardGoals, habits, tasks and a calendar that finally know about each other.
Second ProductPlaceholder. The one-line version of what it does, in plain words.
Third ProductPlaceholder. Delete this entry, or keep it as the shape to fill.
Habits that are frequencies, not appointments
Three times per seven days, never 9am Tuesday. The scoring is ported from Loop Habit Tracker and matches its own published numbers.
Tasks, with the fields that actually get used
The field set is what tasks.org and Vikunja independently converged on a decade apart, rather than what I guessed at.
A calendar that gets recurrence right
RFC 5545, checked against the specification's own worked examples in local time — which is where every daylight-saving bug hides.
03 — The proof
Placeholder headline: the reason to believe any of it.
A promise a reader cannot picture succeeding is worth nothing to them. This is the beat that makes the previous one credible — what it has already done, how long it took, and what it cost.
40 min → 3 minThe weekly planning ritual, placeholder
0 new habitsNothing to learn first, placeholder
18 monthsRunning on my own week, placeholder
04 — The evidence
And I write down what actually held.
Every one of these started as something I was avoiding. What I tried, what broke, and whether the fix survived contact with a real week.
The three-minute audit that killed my inboxA three-minute weekly pass that replaced an inbox I was managing all day.I let an agent run my calendar for 30 daysThirty days of handing scheduling to an agent, and what it got wrong before it got useful.Stop organising. Start briefing.Organising a to-do list is a different skill from actually deciding what to do — and the wrong one to practice.Your to-do list is a to-do lieA list with ninety items on it isn't a plan. It's a place where intentions go to be forgotten honestly.One prompt replaces your Sunday planningThe Sunday planning ritual, replaced by a single prompt that reads the week that actually happened.The quiet architecture of delegationWhy the highest-leverage work is deciding what no longer deserves your attention.Software as staffHiring code to do the work you would rather not — and learning to manage it well.Against the manual mindOn the slow violence of busywork, and the discipline of refusing it.Laziness is a research methodThe tasks you resent are a map. Follow it and you find the thing worth building.
Gianfranco OlofernesIt’s just a newsletter.
Placeholder. One sentence that says what lands in the inbox and how often — the last promise, made where the reader can act on it, with the sun up behind it.