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The Trail Map

A ski-resort trail map for your work, where the runs are graded by difficulty instead of ordered by sequence. Name the mountain and the season, then sort what's in front of you into three tiers with the symbols printed the way a real map prints them: green circle for the easy runs you could still finish on a day with nothing left in the tank, blue square for steady work you can hold all afternoon, black diamond for the one run you keep skiing past. Every run carries an honest vertical drop — "2h", "half a day", "45 min, dreaded" — so the cost is on the map instead of in your head. Below the terrain: one boxed TODAY'S RUN (one, not the whole mountain), a lift status strip covering what's running, what's on hold, and what's closed for the season, and a ski patrol line naming who you call when you're stuck halfway down something you shouldn't have started. Most planning tools ask what's most important. This one asks what you can actually ski today.

Best for: Choosing work that matches the energy you actually have, instead of the energy you planned to have.
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A trail map for your work, graded by difficulty.

Most planning asks what matters most. A trail map asks what you can actually ski today. Grade your work into three tiers — green circle for what you could still finish on an empty day, blue square for steady afternoon work, black diamond for the run you keep skiing past — each with an honest vertical drop. Then pick one run for today, post the lift status, and name your ski patrol.

How it works

Write each run on its own line as run | vertical drop — Backfill the adapter tests | 2h. Three runs per tier print; the drop is whatever unit you actually think in.

The grading is about energy, not importance. A black diamond is not more valuable than a green circle — it just needs better legs.

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