How to Replace Myself in My Company – Part 2: Realizing Task Tracking might not be my best way.

I built a task tracker that worked perfectly for weeks—until I started unconsciously clicking it away. Turns out logging everything was the problem, not the solution. Here’s how one book changed my entire approach.

In Part 1 of this series, I built SwitchLogger to track every task I did, categorizing whether I was working on or in the business. For 2-3 weeks it worked really well—I got valuable insights and the interface was easy to use. But then I started developing the habit of clicking the popup away and eventually stopped logging altogether.

I can’t quite pinpoint why I stopped using it. But I guess I was trying to focus on logging everything (consciously) instead of focusing on the one thing that has the most impact.

“The one thing” is key here, because I started reading the book “The One Thing” by Gary Keller, which inspired me to try a slightly different approach with the switchlogger.

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Building “The One Thing Mode”

On another lazy Sunday I opened up Claude Code and started narrowing down how I wanted to adjust the switch logger.

Instead of trying to track every task the goal was to track “the one thing that I should work on today that makes everything else easier or even redundant”.

Thinking about implementation, I did not want to get rid of my V1 and I also did not want to implement “the one thing”-functionality into the existing UI.

So I decided to implement “the one thing mode”.

It’s basically a switch in the Analytics Dashboard that changes the way the application works.

The One Thing Mode Switch