Quickstart

The commands below work in the Keel shell (run keel) without the prefix, or with keel in front in any terminal.

Open Keel

keel

You’re in the Keel shell. It opens on today, which is empty for now and suggests the first two commands.

Add a client and a project

A client is who the work is for, or any area of your life. A project is one piece of work inside it.

client new acme "Acme Corp"
project new acme/website "Website rebuild"

Keel answers You are now working on acme/website. New items land in the project you’re working on.

Capture a promise you made

owe send pricing deck @ravi due:thu

@ravi is the person (created as you go) and due: takes today, tomorrow, a weekday, +3d or a date. Keel answers with a ref: c1.

Capture a promise made to you

wait design files @meera due:fri

Pick today's focus

focus c1
today

Close the loop

done c1

Press Tab at any point. After owe send deck Keel suggests people, then due dates, then where the promise came from.

Where to go next

What clients, projects, refs and resume notes are.

Capture, focus, follow up, close.

Capture promises as they come up.

Restart in two minutes, not thirty.