Tell me where your stuff lives and I'll go count it.

Catalog Starter

Answer four questions about where your work actually lives. You get the prompt that goes and inventories it, and the guard that stops your assistant helping you rebuild something you already own.

1. Where does your stuff live?

Tick everywhere you've ever put something you finished. The forgotten places are the whole point.

Folders on this machineProjects, scripts, one-off files you never pushed anywhere. Git reposLocal or on GitHub, including the private ones. An automation tooln8n, Make, Zapier. Workflows count as things you built. Databases and sheetsAirtable, Notion, spreadsheets you set up and still use. Anything you deployedA hosting dashboard is a list of things you finished. Small stuffBrowser extensions, bookmarklets, custom GPTs, shortcuts.

2. What counts as one row?

There's no right answer. Pick the one that would let you find a thing again.

One project per row One tool per row

3. What do you want to remember about each one?

Keep it short. A column you never fill in is a column that makes the catalog feel broken.

What it doesOne plain sentence, no jargon. Where it livesPath, repo or URL so you can get back to it. Is it still running?Live, internal, or dead. Dead ones still count. When you built itFirst commit or file date. This is what catches duplicates. What's left to doThe thing you'd have to remember before touching it again. Why you built itThe problem it solved, which is how you find near-duplicates.

4. Where should the catalog live?

Start wherever you'll actually open it. Moving it later is easy.

A spreadsheet Airtable A markdown file

Step one, the inventory prompt

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Step two, the guard skill

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