Scene I of VI
INT. KITCHEN — DAY
Morning, no ceremony
(A laptop opens. No app does. A chat window is already where you left it.)
you
Starting the Deck redesign.
relayrecording
Recorded — 9:04. First block of the day.
you
Also remind me to send the invoice before five.
relayrecording
Armed for 4:45, with a nudge if you're mid-something.
Scene II of VI
INT. DESK — MIDDAY, INTERRUPTED
The plan meets reality
(Somewhere in the auth callback, a ghost. The morning's plan is already obsolete.)
you
Dropping the migration. Auth callback is haunted. Switching to invoices.
relayrecording
Migration paused at 2h 26m. Invoice work is live.
you
Put the haunted part on tomorrow, after standup.
relay
Done. Tomorrow re-drafted around it — nothing lost, nothing double-counted.
Scene III of VI
EXT. TRAIN — AFTERNOON
Transit counts too
(No desk. No laptop. A voice note, seven seconds long.)
you
[voice note · 0:07] On the train reading the spec — count it as research, thirty minutes.
relay
Logged 30m research. Voice works fine here, by the way.
Scene IV of VI
INT. DESK — EVENING
The day, read aloud
(One slash command. No charts to configure first.)
you
/today
relay
6h 12m total — Deck redesign 3h 40m · invoices 1h 52m · research 40m. You're 22m ahead of Tuesday-you.
you
Send that to the team channel.
relay
Posted. Nobody had to sit in a meeting about it.
Scene V of VI
EXT. ANYWHERE — LATER
Delegation, quietly
(The chores that don't need you don't get you. A background agent takes the shift.)
you
Have someone watch the changelog and brief me Monday morning.
relay
Background agent assigned. It reads so you don't. Brief lands Monday, 8:00, your timezone.
MAYA (TEAMMATE)
+1 — saw the report in the channel. Clean.
Scene VI of VI
INT. NIGHT — WRAP
Lights down
(The rarest line in time tracking.)
you
Wrapping for today.
relay
Closed at 6h 12m. Tomorrow is drafted around your 9:00-sharp streak. Rest.
Appendix A of II
Props: five commands
/tasksEverything open, ranked by what's slipping.
“Three open. The invoice reminder fires in 41 minutes.”
/todayThe day so far, told back in your own entries.
“6h 12m across four blocks. Design review was the biggest thief.”
/reportWeekly rollup, formatted how you asked once, months ago.
“28h logged. Deep-work mornings held four of five days.”
/remindersEvery armed nudge, editable by sentence.
“Two armed: invoice at 4:45, stretch break hourly.”
/helpThe whole manual, but conversational.
“Ask me things like ‘how do I pause everything?’”
Appendix B of II
Director’s notes
Speak in ranges. “About two hours” logs honestly — precision theater is optional.
Correct mid-session. History reconciles instead of duplicating.
Group chats work. Prefix @Relay and the room stays out of your ledger.
Timezones travel with you. The 8:00 brief means your 8:00, wherever you woke up.
Goals grow teeth: mock targets, streak counts, and a coach that mentions both.
When stuck, ask “what am I avoiding?”. It answers from your own record.
Production notes
If it needs a form, it will not get filled.
Your words are a better data model than categories.
Good software waits. It does not interrupt.