backlog-triage

A personal backlog that only grows is not a plan; it is an anxiety list. Items you quietly abandon keep resurfacing as guilt, and urgent simply means whoever asked last. backlog-triage converts that fog into a bounded set of reasoned decisions. In one pass it sweeps notes, chat pins, inbox flags, and the previous list into a single inventory, then assigns every item exactly one of six dispositions—now, next, scheduled, waiting, reference, drop—each with a stated reason. Dropped items are archived with their rationale rather than deleted in silence.

Beyond classification there is a commitment-reconciliation step that most triage workflows skip. Anything that would change a promise you made to another person—a deadline shift, a scope cut—is gathered into one approval batch. The agent drafts the wording; you approve and send. Hard rules keep the labels honest: scheduled requires a real calendar date, waiting requires naming who owes the next move, and drop requires a reason and an archive line. Without those constraints the system would just become a new self-consolation engine.

This plugin is built for people managing a personal to-do pool scattered across notes apps, chat pins, and inbox flags. It is not an issue-tracker triage tool for open-source repositories. If your backlog grows every week and opening it feels more like a chore than a plan, this gives you a one-time clearing: a small, definite next step, plus an honest record of what you chose to let go.