You had one assistant holding Klugo, Steel Keel, the job search, the divorce, the kids and the PTO at the same time. As of today it has five, and each one knows what it is for.
Every question used to land in the same place and get the same voice back. That is why the CEO work got served well and the PTO slipped.
You already had lanes. Every note in your vault carries a Lane:: tag and always has. What was missing was an advisor per lane, so 05-Lanes/ now holds one folder each with its own instructions, tone and sense of what matters. Work assumes context and skips the explaining. Family leads with dates and conflicts.
Nothing moved. Your files are exactly where they were. A lane folder holds how the assistant behaves, not your content, so the routing you already use is untouched.
Private is the exception worth knowing about. It has an advisor and deliberately no index, because an index of that lane living outside 60-Private/ would be a summary of it sitting outside it.
Your 30-day win from the intake was a daily start with a top three cutting across work and personal. That needs the lanes. One voice cannot rank a Doozy board item against a Skinner PTO commitment, because it has no idea they are different kinds of thing.
This still comes first. Five lanes on a system that prompts you forty times a day makes the prompting five times worse.
The family lane is the one that changes your week, and the one served worst so far because everything we built first was work shaped. Its advisor now says so out loud.
Fathom was your original pain point in July, copying action items out of email by hand. It slid because you built things that mattered more. That was the right call.
The progress page gets refreshed weekly, read from your own vault. Not a score, a smoke alarm.
A system like this does not break. It just gets opened less, and by the time you notice it has been three weeks. A weekly read makes a lane going quiet visible while it is still a nudge.