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Thirty days, one short practice a day.
Pick a short practice from this site, do it, check off the day and add a one-line note. A picture fills in one piece for each checked day. Then copy it, export it as a CSV file or print the pack version.
This is a draft template, and every example on this page is fictional. Nothing is saved when the tab closes. What you check and type stays on this page: it is not saved, sent or stored, and there are no cookies. Reloading or closing the tab clears the tracker, so use Copy as text or Export CSV before you leave.
How to fill it in
- Pick one short practice from the list below.
- Do it, then check that day's box. Day 1 is the first day you use the tracker. Days do not have to be in a row.
- Choose the practice you did and write one line: a fact you learned, or the question you asked. Write what was said or what a record shows, not why someone did something.
- Skipped a day? Leave it unchecked. Nothing resets and no day is owed.
- Before you close the tab, use Copy as text or Export CSV. Nothing is saved here.
How to read it
- Days checked counts the days you did one short practice. Longest run in a row is the most checked days next to each other. A gap does not undo the count.
- Weeks: four weeks of 7 days, then the last 2 days. The weeks view shows how many check marks each one has.
- The picture has 30 pieces, one for each day. Day 12's piece shows when day 12 is checked, so a skipped day leaves a numbered tile.
- Reread your notes. Which question got a useful answer? Ask that one earlier next time.
What it does not claim
- It does not measure skill. A check mark says you did a practice, not how well.
- It does not promise a result, and it makes no claim about what 30 days will change in you.
- It is not a record for anyone else. Use it for your own practice, never to rate another person.
- It is practice material, not advice about a real situation. It is a draft template, the example is fictional and Otto is a fictional AI.
Five short practices to choose from
All five are on this site. Two questions, as worded in template 8 of the pack: What don't I know that someone here does? and Who decides this, and what do they need from me first?
- Free case: Play one of the eight free cases: read your half, ask up to two questions, then check your plan. The site says about 3 minutes.
- Simulator: Play one branching scenario: choose what to say, ask for the missing half and see where each path ends. The site says about 3 minutes.
- Self-check: Take the self-check quiz: twelve short fictional situations in four areas, then look at the replies you picked. The site says about 10 minutes.
- Pocket-card question (151 KB A4 PDF; US Letter PDF, 151 KB for the pocket cards in the practice tracker list): Pick one of the eight pocket cards, read the two questions on it, and check the answer key.
- Two-question message: Write one message that asks two questions, using the prep card: what you know, what you are missing, the two questions.
The example is a made-up operations coordinator, described by role only: 15 days in, 12 of them checked, with notes from the free cases.
Your tracker as text
It is built from the days above and updates as you check and type. Only days with a check mark, a practice or a note are listed. Read it once and change anything before you use it.
Plain-text version
Take it with you
Printable. The 30-day practice tracker is template 8 of the template pack v4 add-on draft (pages 3 to 6: instructions, a blank tracker on two pages and a filled example week). Its layout is different from the page above: the paper version has one line a day for the request, the two questions you asked, what changed and a confidence number, and it is a separate PDF.
Download the template pack v4 add-on with the practice tracker (A4 PDF, 141 KB) draft, template 8 on pages 3 to 6 ↓ US Letter PDF, 141 KB of the template pack v4 add-on with the practice tracker ↓
Spreadsheet or notes tool. Two plain CSV files with the same four columns as this page (Day, Practice, Done, Note) and 30 rows: a blank one, and the filled fictional example. They are comma-separated text, UTF-8, with the column names in the first row and no formulas. Done is yes or no. A tool such as Google Sheets or Notion can import a CSV file with its own CSV import.
Download blank tracker (CSV, 1 KB) for the 30-day practice tracker, draft template ↓ Download filled example (CSV, 1 KB) for the 30-day practice tracker, fictional example ↓
- Download the blank CSV, or the filled example to see how it looks.
- Open your spreadsheet or notes tool and use its own CSV import. Menu names differ by product and version, so this page does not list them: look for an import option that takes a CSV (comma-separated) file.
- Choose the file you downloaded. If the tool asks for a separator, choose comma. If it asks for the text encoding, choose UTF-8.
- Check that the first row became the four column names and that each column landed in its own column. Fix it in your tool if not.
- Fill in your days there. The Export CSV button on this page gives you the same four columns back, with all 30 days.
The CSV files are drafts and the example is fictional. A cell that starts with = + - or @ gets a single quote in front when you export, so a spreadsheet never reads it as a formula.
A check mark says one short practice was done. It does not measure skill, it promises no result, and a day you skip costs nothing. Not sure what is a fact? Practice it in three minutes. This page is practice material, not advice about a real situation. It is template 8 of the template pack v4 add-on.
Practice the two questions first.
Play a short fictional case, ask for the missing facts and see who decides.
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