Guided mode

One thing at a time

A roadmap is useful once you know what you are doing. When you don't, a list of twenty fixes is just twenty decisions before you start. Guided mode removes them: it puts one action on the screen with the steps to do it, and moves on when you are ready.

Open it from Guide me through it on the top card of your Roadmap.

What a step gives you

• Why this, with the measurement that flagged it.
• How to do it: the steps, plainly. What counts as finished, and how long it usually takes before a scan can see it.
• Avoid, where the obvious approach is the one that backfires.
• What to write, when the fix produces something. A content brief for a page, a prompt you can copy for something like an outreach email, or, for community sites, the format and the rules without any drafted text. See content briefs.

At the bottom you mark what happened: I did this, I'm working on it, Skip, or Not relevant to us. On a fix that takes months rather than an afternoon, "I'm working on it" is the honest answer, so that is the one we lead with.

The run is yours to shape

The queue is however long your list is. We don't trim it to a round number, because a ten minute fix and a project that runs for months should not be counted as the same kind of step.

Beside the current step you get the whole queue. Click any line to jump to it. Click the × to take something out of this run: the line stays where it is, crossed out, with a way to put it back. Taking something out here only affects the run you are in. It stays on your Roadmap, untouched.

When you cross from the quick work into the bigger projects, we stop and say so, and you can keep going or come back later. That break is there because the work genuinely changes shape at that point, not because you hit a step count.

Leaving and coming back

Your place is kept, so you can close the tab mid-run, come back, and pick up where you were. What you took out of the run is remembered too, until you close the browser.

Marking things as you go does not reshuffle the queue underneath you. If a newer scan lands while you are working, we say so and offer to start over with it rather than quietly changing the list you are standing in.

What "done" means

Marking something done records that you did it. It does not claim the problem is solved: only a later scan can confirm that, and when it does the change shows up in Progress.