The system
The system I run my own company on
Every weekday morning it reads every place I work and writes one board. This is the shape of it.
I built it because I needed it. I run a sales division by day, around seventy accounts, and the part that was eating me was not the work, it was deciding where everything went.
- Mail128
- Calendar14
- Tasks61
- LinkedIn9
- Chatno report since 07:04
wrote 2 task updates and 1 draft. sent nothing.
Chat did not report. Shown, not hidden.
the board is short by one source and says so
Illustration. The numbers are invented. The behaviour is not.
It runs on a schedule
Every two hours, seven to seven, weekdays. A board you return to, not a feed that interrupts you.
Every source lands on its own
Mail, calendar, tasks, chat, LinkedIn. One dead feed cannot take the board down with it.
One writer, one board
A scheduled job writes a single snapshot. Nothing in the interface goes and fetches anything.
Sorted by the action it needs
Not by how important it looks, and not by who shouted most recently.
It writes almost nothing back
Tasks, where a change is visible and reversible. Mail gets a draft. It has never sent an email for me.
A dead source says so
It never quietly drops a feed. Something that stops reading and does not mention it is manufacturing calm.
Things break. A second job checks the board got written at all and says so every hour until it did. Nothing here is built to hide a failure.
Want this shape around your operation?
About twelve weeks. Scoped on a call, once we have looked at your operation together.