For people with too many open books
Pick the one goal that matters. Put everything else on the shelf. Shel turns it into small chapters, checks in every week, and your book hatches a little hermit crab that grows each time you show up.
Coming to iPhone. Invites go out in small batches.
One book. Let's finish it.
The problem
The guitar. The side project. The Spanish app. The 10K. Every one gets a little of you, so none of them get finished, and the pile just makes you feel behind.
The time you get back
That's enough to learn the chords, run the 10K, or write the first draft. Shelved doesn't ask you to find more time. It helps you point the time you already have at one thing.
How it works
The goal that would actually change something. Tell Shel why it matters.
Everything else pulling at you goes on the shelf. It's safe there, and it's out of your way.
Shel turns your goal into small chapters with a real finish line. Show up a few times a week. Finish it, then pick the next book.
The desk and the shelf
The desk holds the one book you're working on. The shelf holds everything else, quietly, until it's its turn.
On your desk
On the shelf
Not deleted. Not nagging you. Just waiting.
Your book crab
Open a book and a little hermit crab hatches for it. The shell stays the same size. The crab grows into it, one session at a time.
Drags the shell along. Everyone starts here.
Halfway through the book, the shell gets its stripes.
Book finished. It carries the shell high and joins your shelf for good.
Your crab never loses a level. Miss a week and it just waits for you.
Seaweed, not shame
Pick the apps you escape to when the work gets hard, and a daily limit. Go past it and seaweed tangles your crab. Two minutes on your book washes it off. Two minutes counts.
Optional and off by default. Uses Screen Time on iPhone.
Not mad. Just a little overgrown.
Weekly check-ins
Once a week, at the time you pick, Shel asks how your chapter went. Done it? The next chapter opens. Stuck? Shel splits it smaller. Didn't start? No guilt: Shel asks what got in the way and changes the plan, not you.
The plan changes. The book doesn't.
Pricing
14-day free trial. Shel reminds you 2 days before it ends.
Get early access and finish it with Shel.
No spam. One email when your invite is ready.