About the thing --- ctql (`npx/bunx ctql` to try it out) is a fantasy-flavoured CLI tool for tracking your progress on projects.

You do need to prep a task list, or Quest Line - for now, it uses TOML and makes some strict demands. The git repo (https://github.com/mackenziebowes/questlog) includes guides showing fun and easy ways to generate Quest Lines.

You can toggle a feature I'm calling "*git sync*" where the CLI automatically (crudely) commits work and makes branches for you.

Using straight `bunx ctql` opens a clack tree showing off all 4 features, and you can also `bunx ctql done` to finish the current task, `bunx ctql stats` to see your projects current stats, or `bunx ctql git` to toggle your git sync status. --- The Story --- I am a self-taught programmer deep in the depths of funemployment... emphasis on the fun. Really trying to level up from a React plumber into a "real programmer", who knows if I'll ever figure that out.

I spend a lot of time on different experiments, and not much is getting actually done - this year is really just flying by.

So, I wanted a way to make the computer track my progress, including my getting distracted and wandering into other rabbit holes, *and* a way to make data entry about progress easy and fun.

This is built using my best guesses about performance psychology: breaking down large tasks into small chunks, setting conditions for success, feedback loops + visible incremental progress, external operationalizing ... all things that supposedly make video games addictive.

I hope you find it useful and I expect you to find it a bit silly.