I tell my assistant, Glitch, what is on my mind. Glitch turns it into cards on one storyboard I can open in any browser. This page explains the problem it solves, how it works, and shows an example. Every card on the example is made up.
If you dump your thoughts most days, this will be familiar.
You talk an idea out, it lands in a note or a chat, and it stays there. A week later there are ten more on top of it.
A dump is raw. It does not say which thought needs a decision from you, which one is waiting on someone else, and which is only an idea for later.
Once the pile is too long to read, you stop opening it. The good ideas are lost with the rest.
From a thought in my head to a card on a live page.
I tell Glitch what is on my mind in plain words, in the middle of whatever we are working on.
Glitch turns the dump into a card and adds it to one file. That file holds the whole storyboard.
A small program reads that file and draws the page. No one lays the page out by hand.
The page is published to Cloudflare Pages as ordinary web pages, with nothing to run. My real storyboard is locked with a password. This example is open on purpose.
After publishing, the program opens the live page and confirms it is the new one.
When a chat changes a deal or an idea, Glitch is reminded to update the storyboard before the chat ends. The first message of each day starts a refresh.
The hosting is free. The storyboard is ordinary web pages on Cloudflare Pages, with nothing to run.
This is what a storyboard looks like once the dumps have been filed. It is for an invented consulting business. No card here is a real person, company or deal. Glitch writes the storyboard to its owner, so the word you on the cards means the owner.
Nothing moves on these until you decide or send.
The proposal is written. It needs a price from you before it can go out.
From your dump on MondayYou said twice that it takes a full morning. Keep it, cut it to monthly, or stop.
From your dumps on Tuesday and ThursdayThe draft is ready. It waits for you to read it and send it.
From Wednesday's call notesOpen, and the next move is theirs or a meeting.
They have the plan. The owner said he would answer after the long weekend.
From last week's callSecond call is booked. She wants to see what the first month looks like.
From Wednesday's call notesThe owner asked for two weeks. Nothing to do until then.
From his emailYes in hand. Delivery is the job now.
Signed. The first piece of work is due at the end of the month.
From the signed agreementYes by email. Kickoff call is next week.
From her emailWhat you have dumped on me or parked. Nothing here moves until you say go.
Five pages on the three questions every clinic owner asks on a first call.
Dumped on ThursdayShe sends clients to you, you send clients back. Worth a conversation after the busy season.
Dumped two weeks agoThree people asked for prices before a call. One page could answer them.
Dumped last weekThree clients asked for the same extra thing. Could be its own offer.
Dumped on MondayFridays for writing and thinking only. Try it for a month.
Dumped this morningDeals we finished, kept with their date and outcome. Nothing is ever removed.
Went with a cheaper option. Kept here so the reason is not forgotten.
From his emailWork delivered and paid.
From the final invoiceSix rules the storyboard is built on. They work whatever tools you use.