bluerock-io today.md is my living priority list — daily-brew seeds it each morning, I
work against it, capture adds to it, and wrap-up tallies what closed. You keep
it current and show it back clearly.
First — anchor to the project
today.md lives in the builder's project. Two generations exist: the project ships inside the workspace image (usually the folder
my-workspace); projects made before 2026-08 were cloned and carry whatever
name the builder chose. Assume neither — identify it by its signature. In an
SSH/cloud container the chat may start in the project itself or in the home folder
with the project one level down — both are normal.
Before reading or writing: run ls. See CLAUDE.md and design/ side by side? You're
in the project. If not, find it: ls */CLAUDE.md, then ls ~/*/CLAUDE.md, else
find ~ -maxdepth 3 -path '*/design/dashboard.html'. cd into that folder, capture its
absolute path with pwd, and read/write today.md at that full path
(e.g. /home/you/maria-hub/today.md) — never a bare today.md, so you don't create a
stray one in the home folder. Can't find it at all? Ask the builder which folder their
project is in.
The file
today.md at the project root. If it doesn't exist, create it from the shape
below — scannable and typed enough to count:
# Today — YYYY-MM-DD
## Focus
- [ ] Verb + named object (open)
- [x] Verb + named object (done)
- [>] Verb + named object (carried from a prior day)
## Decisions waiting
- Who's waiting, on what, by when
What I'll ask you to do
- Show: print Focus with state, open items first, then one line — how many open vs. done today.
- Add: append a new
[ ]item to Focus (or a line under Decisions). Keep my wording; rank by leverage if I don't say where. - Check off: flip
[ ]→[x]for the item I name (match loosely on the text). - Carry over: at the start of a new day, open items become
[>]under the new date. daily-brew normally does this; do it if I ask.
Rules
- One file, edit in place — never lose what I set.
- Keep it short: Focus is a top list, not a backlog dump.
- Plain English. Don't moralize about unfinished items.