Lab note / 01 The first public site structure is assembled
At this stage, the site stopped being only a landing page. It became
a reader-facing shell for the method: there is a simple entry, system
map, depth section, safety page, app page, author position, and the
first laboratory frame.
The main task of the next iterations is not to expand the system for
volume, but to test formulations in practice: where the text helps a
person see attention capture, and where it overloads or leads into
abstraction.
The Lab is needed so the method remains alive: strong ideas are
fixed, mistakes become material, and changes are not hidden behind
the appearance of final truth.
Lab note / 02 What version 1.x of the app gave us
The first version of `you_stalker` was built as a state tracker: the
user could track emotions, reactions, habits, keep a journal, return
to episodes, and see repeated states.
The main value of version 1.x turned out not to be statistics or a
list of emotions, but the act of recording itself. When a person
records a state, they stop being only inside the emotion and for a
short time become an observer. The emotion stops being background and
becomes an object of attention.
Recording creates distance between the person and the automatic reaction.
Version 1.x also showed the limits of the old model. An emotion
tracker helped see states, but gradually it became clear that
Attention OS must look deeper: not only what emotion a person feels,
but what captured attention, where it goes, what tail remains, and
what action helps return choice.
This is how the app began moving from a state tracker toward a
tracker of the movement of attention.
What remained Observation
Recording an episode helps step out of complete fusion with the state.
Journal
Returning to the events of the day became the foundation for the later theme of review.
Reference base
The idea of a reference section remained, but the methodology now lives on the site.
Soft reminders
Prompts are treated not as pressure, but as support for focus on the practice.
What was revised Emotion is not the whole practice
The old model was too tied to emotions and states. The current model distinguishes capture, leak, tail, inner dialogue, self-importance, and counteraction.
Progress should not evaluate the person
Early ideas of levels and points may be useful as motivation hypotheses, but the practice must not turn into a judgment of personality.
Review should not remain secondary
The journal already existed in the early version, but the focus on review was getting lost. Now it is separated as work with traces and attention tails.
Conclusion: version 1.x was a necessary stage. It proved that
recording a state can create distance and reveal repetitions. But it
also showed that the method is wider than an emotion tracker.