Thanks, this looks promising, I’ll investigate.

But also thanks for giving me the word “delayed” to use in my searches. Sometimes it’s hard to remember good synonyms.

Thanks, but not really as the “time capsule” feature would be lost since the email would be sitting in my future-/scheduled-folder.

But in the end that might be what I end up doing if I can’t find a suitable service.

Ok, thanks I will have to dive into Emacs then and give it a try.

For app supported habit forming there are some gamification apps that some friends swear by but they’ve never really done it for me

These kind of apps come close to a subset of my needs, but their focus on tracking every thing and the long lists of everything just work against me.

As I wrote in another comment, the problem isn’t keeping track when things go well, the problem is getting to a state where things go well.

Oh, I know, procrastination is my drug of choice…

Fortunately I have a job that requires presence and readiness to act but very little actual work so I can indulge in this kind of thinking and these projects here :)

While I’m not primarily looking for a discussion about strategy I do understand it’s inevitable, so…

While this seems like a great strategy for you, it isn’t for me, I’ve tried this and many other strategies and failed at all.

I’m looking for this specific capabilty in the format because what I need is a low-stakes way to get back on the horse. And from my research and knowledge about myself this requirement (“forget if not done”) is the best I can work with. If you have ideas or systems that deal with this I’m open to discuss them

I don’t really need help when things are going well, but I will fail and I will drop all the balls and almost everything else for a few months for reasons, some days I will forget if I took my 08:00 medication or if I have eaten. Some weeks I wont be able to call my mother to check on her or my friends to make plans.

I need a place to see 3-5 meaningful things I can do right now, because if there are too many I get overwhelmed. If there is a long list of things I haven’t done I get too discouraged or if I have to start by figuring out what to do I get stuck on finding the best thing.

So, while I’m glad you can manage to just fucking do it, I can’t.