1. Fill one row a dayWhat you meant to do, what actually happened, and one line about what was going on at that moment. Two minutes, the same day it happened (Chapter 1).
2. Answer the row's questionsDid it start, did something pull you off, did the note name a feeling. The answers sort the row into one of six switches, the same way the book's key does.
3. Read the countThe switch with the most rows is your chapter this week. Ties, spread-out weeks and blank days each have their own rule, and the page applies it.
Example from the book:
The seven-day log (Chapter 1)
Your week, sorted
The floor line (Chapter 8)
Write it on an ordinary day, before you need it. One action, under five minutes, no decisions left in it, nothing to do with your task list. On a floor day it is the only thing asked of you.
The ninety-day tally (Chapter 9)
One tick a day, at the same moment you touch your system: was today a stuck day for the task your system covers? Click a day to mark it stuck. The bar is a changed ratio, not zero.
The rules behind these numbers
- Six switches, one key. Initiation (never started, no feeling in the note); working memory (intended, then gone, nothing pulled you); time sense (done, but far longer than guessed, and something after it got wrecked); prioritising (busy day, the one that mattered not among what got done); emotional regulation (the note names a feeling that arrived first); task-switching (going fine until something pulled you off). Chapter 1.
- Tie-breaks. 1 or 5: 5 if the note names a feeling. 2 or 6: 6 if something pulled you away. 1 or 3: 3 if it started at all. Still both: count it in both. Chapter 1.
- Counting. Most rows wins. A tie goes to the switch whose worst single row cost the most. Four or more switches with no leader: run a second week and combine. Three or more blank rows: Chapter 8 first — and three floor days in one week is the threshold the book says to take to a doctor or therapist. Chapters 1 and 8.
- Reading path. Your one switch chapter this week, ten minutes in Chapter 8 today to write the floor line, Chapter 9 after the test week. Everything else stays closed. Chapter 1.
- Ninety days. Count the Ys per thirty days; don't average. Fewer stuck days in month three than month one means leave the system alone and rerun the log for the next switch. Chapter 9.
This page applies the book's sorting key to what you type in. It is not a diagnosis, not treatment advice, and not a substitute for a clinician who knows your history. If floor days keep coming, or the same feeling names itself day after day, that belongs to a professional, not to a chapter.