Toolkit Overview: Choose the Problem Before the Tool

Templates are not another course to collect. They are work sheets you can reuse: name the problem in front of you, preserve an unpolished sample, take one action, and let feedback decide what comes next.

If you do not know where to begin, choose one sheet. An incomplete sheet used on a real problem is more valuable than ten blank templates.

First Ask: Where Am I Stuck?

Current block	First tool	Open next	What this tool cannot prove for you
No clear goal or baseline	Learning State	English Diagnostic	It cannot choose a permanently correct direction
Starting a 90-day cycle	90-Day Cycle Map	Rhythm Ledger	It cannot guarantee success or persistence
Weekly rhythm keeps breaking	Rhythm Ledger	Weekly Review	It cannot turn fatigue, illness, or responsibility into laziness
I have samples but cannot tell whether anything really changed	Evidence Chain	Evidence	It cannot turn one smooth performance into stable ability
I recognise words but cannot use them	Vocabulary Audit	Vocabulary	It cannot replace contextual performance with card counts
I cannot hear or explain what I read	Listening Resource Audit or Reading Evidence Card	Listening · Reading	It cannot use minutes played or highlights as proof of understanding
I cannot speak or write with confidence	Speaking Evidence Card or Writing Evidence Card	Speaking · Writing	It cannot speak for you before a real listener
I do not know how to involve AI	AI Task Brief	AI Learning Log	It cannot turn a model response into a fact or final judgment
I have an idea but no deliverable	Artifact Brief and Delivery Card	AI Project Scorecard	It cannot find users, carry responsibility, or prove a commercial result
I want to analyse a person or project story	AI Case Review	Narrative and Evidence	It cannot turn a public narrative into an independent audit
I am handling a decision, attention, relationship, or recovery problem	Life Practice Toolkit	Decision-Making · Attention · Relationships · Recovery	It cannot replace medical, psychological, legal, or financial support

Connect the Tools into One Loop

Do not fill every template at once. Follow this order and keep only the evidence each step needs:

1. Locate: use Learning State or English Diagnostic to name the real situation, baseline, and acceptance standard;
2. Choose: use the 90-Day Cycle Map for a longer cycle, or the Rhythm Ledger for one week;
3. Practice: choose a vocabulary, listening, reading, speaking, or writing evidence card and complete your first version yourself;
4. Collaborate: when AI is useful, fill the AI Task Brief, then record the collaboration and your closed-AI performance in the AI Learning Log;
5. Deliver: for a real audience, use the Artifact Brief and Delivery Card; after a release or pilot, use the AI Project Scorecard to record quality, cost, risk, and rollback;
6. Review: use the Evidence Chain to place the first version, immediate performance, delayed retention, and transfer together, then use the Weekly Review to change one condition.

This is a returnable path. If a step reveals risk, lower capacity, or missing evidence, go back and reduce the task. Going back is not waste; it makes the next action more trustworthy.

Three Rules

Track Only What Can Change a Decision

If a number cannot help you continue, downgrade, change a variable, or stop, you do not need to record it for long. The purpose of a record is not to fill a page. It is to clarify the next step.

A First Version Should Be Human-made

Complete the baseline, first version, and independent retest before AI enters or after it is closed whenever possible. A tool can explain, compare, and point out problems. It cannot manufacture the feeling of having learned.

Records Must Keep Boundaries

Do not paste passwords, identity documents, exact addresses, customer data, medical privacy, or unauthorised third-party content into a template or model. For health, safety, legal, financial, or persistent loss-of-control concerns, contact a qualified professional or trusted support person first.

A Minimum Beginning

Write only four lines today:

The real problem I am solving:
The baseline evidence I already have:
The smallest output I will complete in 25–45 minutes:
Where I will preserve the evidence:

When it is done, choose the tool closest to the task, give it a date, and set the next review time. Do not wait for every field to be complete. Starting is what makes the missing information concrete.

Related entry points: Reader's Guide: Put the Book Back into Life | Glossary of Terms and Methods | Rhythm: Let Small Things Travel Through Time