The ideas behind Keel - Keel

Word	What it means
Client	Who the work is for, or a whole area of your life: `acme`, `northwind`, `personal`. It groups projects.
Project	One piece of work under a client, written `client/project`: `acme/website`.
Working on	The project you’re in right now: zero or one. New items land in it unless you name another project. Your first project becomes it automatically; `switch` changes it and `park` clears it.
Commitment	A promise with a person and a due date. owe is something you promised someone; wait is something someone promised you. For a promise to yourself, use `@me`: `owe renew passport @me due:fri` shows as “for myself”.
Inbox	Anything you haven’t decided about yet. Sort it later with `triage`.
Focus	Up to three commitments you pick for today.
Resume note	Three short answers saved when you leave a project: where you are, what’s next, what you’re unsure about. Shown when you come back.
Ref	The short name of an item: `c12` is a commitment, `p3` a project, `i5` an inbox item. Use refs in commands: `done c12`.

Clients for every area

Use clients for every area you juggle, not only paying ones: client new personal "Personal" with personal/job-search, or client new oss "Open source" with oss/keel. The weekly summary shows your time per client, so this gives an honest picture of where your week went.

Renegotiated is not slipped

When you agree a new date with the other person, use renegotiate c12 due:mon. In the weekly summary it counts toward your kept rate. Moving a date with set c12 due:mon is logged as a silent move instead. The difference is the point: renegotiating early is good practice, slipping quietly is not.

One command language, two terminals

Every command works the same in the keel CLI, the Keel shell, and the browser terminal (keel serve). They share one core, one database and one completer.