Approve, stop or allow a step

A step is one piece of work for a goal. The daily round, a routine that runs at 05:30, picks each day's steps. A step that reaches other people or costs money waits for your yes (What it does alone, and what it asks first).

Steps that need your yes come once a day as one numbered list, a sentence per step. It arrives each morning: in Telegram on a server installed with the one-line command, otherwise as a note in the notebook's From your routines folder. With a morning brief switched on, it is in the brief.

Reply in the notebook's chat, or in Telegram on a server, and say which list you are answering:

today's list: ship all

today's list: 1 and 3

The first lets every step go ahead, the second only lines 1 and 3. A line you leave unanswered expires after seven days and is not asked again.

Steps of a kind you allowed (below) go out at a set time unless you stop them. The morning message lists them under "Going out unless you say stop". That is your morning brief when it is on. Otherwise it is the daily round's 05:30 message, in Telegram on a server or as a note in From your routines.

• Reply stop to keep back every step of the day.
• Reply stop 2 to keep back only line 2.

A sent message cannot be called back, but a change to your own page or file can be put back: ask for it.

Some steps come back again and again, such as answering comments under your videos. You can allow one kind once, for one goal, with a limit per week.

1. Wait for the question. About once a week per goal, the day's list may ask, for example: "May I answer comments under your YouTube videos without asking each time? I would send at most ten a week and you see each one the morning before."
2. Answer in your own words. Your answer becomes the permission.

From then on, a step of that kind shows in the morning message. It goes out at 18:00 UTC (world time) unless you stop it, and the message gives that time on your own clock. A step that was never shown waits for the next morning, so you always see it before it goes.

A kind that reaches nobody, such as fixing typos on your own blog, can be allowed to go ahead alone.

After a step of a kind you allowed went out, the daily round tells you where its results reach you: "Done, as you allowed: ...". With a morning brief on, the brief also lists those that went ahead alone the next day, under "Done yesterday without asking".

Money, sign-ups, bookings, cancellations and a first message to someone new can never be allowed this way.

On your own computer, mc-goals allow does the same from a terminal (Terminal commands).