Not another list.

Shivai is a dependency graph for what you wish to be true. See what's ready. Follow what excites you. Watch the path unfold.

Know my dates
ready done
Research flights
ready done
Book trip to Japan
blocked ready
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The invisible labour

There is a particular kind of work that rarely gets named: the work of tracking the work. Knowing what depends on what, what waits on what, what becomes possible only after something else is done.

Most tools offer you a list. Everything feels equally urgent. Nothing feels clear. Lists flatten; dependencies reveal.

This tool asks a different question: what is actually ready?


A map drawn from experience

This is not a chart you create in advance. You use it live.

Start with a goal. Work toward it. When you hit something that genuinely blocks progress, add it. Draw the dependency. The structure grows from what you actually discover — not from what you imagine might happen.

By degrees, a map emerges. Not a plan imposed upon reality — a record of it.


How it works

You add what you wish to be true. Goals, tasks, routines, desires — I call them preferences. Name them as plainly as you can.
You draw what depends on what. This cannot happen until that is complete. The graph holds it so you need not.
You see what is ready. Those preferences with nothing blocking them light up. These are your genuine next steps.
You complete something. The graph shifts. New things become ready. The path reorganises itself around your progress.

What some have found

Some who have used it report that the visible structure quiets a certain kind of anxiety. Lists overwhelmed them — everything equally urgent, the progression never quite making sense. But when the dependencies are drawn, the mind can rest. It need not hold everything at once.

One person cleaned their apartment faster than they thought possible. Not through discipline — the structure was simply outside their head.


On the present state of things

This is a prototype. Rougher than I would like. I improve it daily.

Free while I'm building. Your data stays yours — export anytime.

What I need is honest feedback. What works, what confuses, what's missing. Find me at @CultivationCat.


Begin with one thing

Pick something you wish to be true. Work toward it. When something blocks you, add it. Draw the dependency. See what becomes ready.

That is the whole practice.

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"A small daily task, if it really be daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules."