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    Community Garden Workshop · Overview

    Purpose

    Teach twenty neighbours to grow food together before the first frost.

    Phase 2 of 3 · Preparing the site58%

    Next steps

    Confirm the plot with the parks officeDone
    Order soil and seedlingsThu
    Send the sign-up page to the neighbourhood listFri
    Workshop daySep 14

    People

    MAMaya AlvarezMaster gardener
    DODev OkaforParks office
    RLRina LeeVolunteer lead

    Milestones

    ✓ Site secured

    ◐ Materials ready

    ○ Workshop delivered

    Three ways to begin

    Start wherever the work actually is.

    Some projects arrive as a hunch, some as a clear intention, some as a folder of notes. Each has its own way in — and all of them lead to the same project.

    Path 01

    Explore an idea

    Start with a conversation and discover what the project could become.

    Project Guide

    Who would this workshop be for — first-time growers, or people who already have a plot?

    Mostly neighbours who've never grown anything.

    Path 02

    Plan my project

    Turn an intention into a structured plan with outcomes, milestones, and next steps.

    BasicsDetailsPeopleReview

    Outcome · Twenty people leave with a planted bed

    Path 03

    Organize an existing plan

    Bring existing notes or documents into a coherent project.

    garden-notes.docx · 3 pages

    Found in your notes:

    3 phases · 9 tasks · 2 people

    …and every path arrives at one project.

    From intention to action

    “We should do something with that empty lot.”

    Here is how one passing thought becomes a workshop with a date, a team and a plan.

    1. 01PurposeHelp neighbours grow food together
    2. 02Outcomes20 people trained · 12 beds planted
    3. 03MilestonesSite · Materials · Workshop day
    4. 04TasksOrder soil, book tools, print guides
    5. 05PeopleMaya, Dev, Rina
    6. 06Progress58% · on track for Sep 14
    Week 3 of 67 of 12 tasks done

    Everything belongs together

    The context comes with the work.

    A conversation with Maya produces a task. The task belongs to the project. Your Guide sees all three — so nothing you agreed to slips through.

    Maya Alvarez

    Master gardener · met at the spring seed swap

    ProjectGarden Workshop
    Meeting · Tuesday

    Agreed: Maya leads the soil demo if we send a materials list by Friday.

    Community Garden Workshop

    Recent activity

    Meeting with Maya loggedTue
    Send Maya the materials listFri
    Workshop daySep 14
    Task

    Send Maya the materials list

    From Tuesday’s meeting · due Friday

    Your Guide

    Maya’s demo depends on this list — want to draft it now?

    A project space that stays useful

    Go deep without losing the thread.

    OverviewDetailsPeopleTimelineTasksFilesActivityAgentReview
    1

    Phase 2 · Preparing the site

    Confirm plot accessDev
    Order soil and seedlingsThu
    Send Maya the materials listFri
    Recruit six volunteersRina
    2

    Timeline

    3

    Files

    Planting guide.pdf

    Site map.png

    4

    Review

    What worked in phase 1? What would you change?

    1

    Tasks are grouped by phase, each with its own dates, people and time — open one to edit it in place.

    2

    The Timeline shows where every phase stands, so a long project never feels shapeless.

    3

    Files, Details and People keep the reference material beside the work, not in another app.

    4

    Activity records what happened and Review asks what you learned — so the next project starts wiser.

    Your Guide understands the work

    Know what matters next.

    Your Guide reads the project you’ve built — progress, tasks, people and past conversations — and points to the one thing worth your attention. It suggests. You decide.

    Your Guide · Community Garden Workshop

    What I noticed

    Workshop day is 16 days away, but no volunteers have confirmed yet.

    Why it matters

    In Tuesday’s meeting, Maya said the soil demo needs at least four helpers.

    Based on

    TaskRecruit six volunteersMeetingMaya · TuesdayPersonRina Lee

    Ask Rina to share the volunteer sign-up this week?

    Create taskNot now

    Nothing changes until you choose.

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