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Your board saves automatically on this device, in this browser. To print it, keep a copy, or open it somewhere else, use one of these.
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Opening someone else's board replaces yours on this device, but yours is set aside and you can bring it back from the notice at the top of the page.
The PDF is a clean printout of what you tick below: the board (usually two pages — chart, totals, harmonies and X-Factor, then your future self at one and three years), your Blueprint, and your Decision Filter card. It always uses the light Paper look so it prints cleanly, and its text can be searched and copied. The image is one picture of the board in the look you're using now.
The board file is a small file that holds your whole board — every point, harmony, note, X-Factor and future-self measure, plus your Blueprint and Decision Filter. It's the surest way to keep your work outside this browser: use it to move to another computer, keep a copy for your next Studio, or send your board to a Remix partner. A PDF or image can't be loaded back in; this file can.
- Click Download board file and keep the file somewhere you'll find it (it ends in
.json). - To load it again, open the Mixing Board, click Save (or Share), then Open board file… and choose the file.
- Loading replaces whatever is on that board now, so download the current board first if you want to keep it.
Files can't be downloaded from this view of the board — the Claude viewer only allows downloads for some people, such as the board's owner. Everything below works for everyone.
Make a printable image of your whole board — chart, totals, harmonies, X-Factor and your future self at one and three years — in the light Paper look. Then right-click it and choose Save Image As… or Copy Image. On a phone or tablet, press and hold the image. You can print the saved image or drop it into an email.
Right-click → Save Image As… (or press and hold on a phone).
Your board code holds your whole board in one line of text. Copy it and keep it somewhere safe — an email to yourself or a note works well — or send it to a Remix partner.
- To load it again, open the Mixing Board and click Save.
- Paste the code under Load a board and press Load. A board file saved earlier works too.
- Loading replaces whatever is on that board now, so copy the current code first if you want to keep it.
Settings
The green band is where a moment's total intensity feels full but not frantic. Outside it turns amber; past the red lines it turns red.
Start fresh?
This clears every point, harmony and note on this board — including your X-Factor, your future-self notes, Blueprint and Decision Filter. If you might want it back, save a copy first.
Five tracks. Five moments. One life, remixed.
Set how much of yourself each track gets, from 0 to 20 — two years ago, today, and out to five years from now.
The board adds the five areas together to indicate a total intensity during each time period.
There is no right answer. Some people will want to keep overall intensity just as high, but with a different mix; others might want more free time in their next phase and look for a declining total intensity.
Watch out for totals that drift too high and might not be realistic, or too low and might feel too thin.
The five tracks
intensity 0–20 eachType a number for precision, or drag on the board. Solo a track to bring it forward and soften the others.
Harmonies
one activity, several needsThere is a free lunch in Remix, and we call it a Harmony. A Harmony lets a single activity meet several needs at once: yoga with a friend (R+M), walking meetings (E+M), an impact project you share with your spouse (R+I), paid work that also has real impact (E+I), or a business with a good friend that does good in the world (R+E+I) — join as many tracks as the activity truly serves. Each one takes its points off the total in the moments where it applies, once for every extra track it joins, and never more than the smallest of those tracks.
What is my X-Factor?
what did you always mean to get to?The thing you kept your eye on is still there — a craft, a faith, a place, a passion. Name it, say why it matters, and describe what it would look like to finally pursue it for no reason other than that you love it.
In my words
what two of the tracks mean to meRelationships and Impact mean something different to everyone. A line or two on what they mean to you keeps the numbers honest.
In your future self’s shoes
what you did, and the clear mark it workedPicture yourself one year and three years from now, with the moves made. For each moment, two things: what you did to drive the change, and the clear mark that it worked — something you could point to. Walked my son to school two or three days every week. Joined a second public board. The chips show which tracks move from today.
Height is intensity
0 means the track gets none of you; 20 means it gets everything you have. Most full lives run each track somewhere between 4 and 14 — a 20 on one track leaves little for the others.
The total is the tell
Add the five tracks and most people land between 30 and 60. Above 45 is heavy; past 55, something is going to give. The green band is a life that is full without being frantic.
Harmonies support your Remix
Where one activity feeds two tracks, you get the intensity without paying for it twice. Finding more of them is often the whole game.
Your Remix Blueprint
Your board says where each track is headed. The Blueprint turns that into first-pass milestones for the next 12 to 24 months — what you will actually do, and by when — and then tests whether the plan fits in a real week.
It’s a working guide, not a contract. Come back to it at each Remix session: mark what’s done, note what you’re consciously changing, and sharpen the next step.
Milestones
what I’ll do, and by whenEach row starts from your board: where the track is today, where you want it in 12 and 24 months, and how you said you’d know it worked. Write the concrete steps that get you there — the decision, the habit, the conversation, the first client. Small and specific beats big and vague.
Check-ins
what’s done, what’s changingAt each Remix session — or whenever something shifts — add a quick check-in. What got done? What slipped? What are you consciously changing, and why? Then update the milestones above to match.
Does it fit in a week?
hours per week, out of 168A plan can look right on the board and still not fit in a week. Estimate the hours a typical week holds for each track — today, and once the plan is working. Count a Harmony’s hours inside every track it serves; the double count comes off at the bottom. Intensity isn’t only hours, but big moves on the board usually need the hours to move too.
Your Decision Filter
Every opportunity — a board seat, a project, an engagement — takes time from somewhere. Your card holds five or six core tests drawn from the priorities on your board. Run each opportunity through them before you answer, so every yes moves the ball in the right direction and every no is easy to explain.
Your card
five or six core testsClick any test to reword it, tag the tracks it protects, or make it a deal-breaker — a test an opportunity must pass. Keep it to five or six, each one a question you can answer yes or no.
This first pass is drafted from your board, and follows it as the board changes — until you edit it.
Right-click → Save Image As… (or press and hold on a phone).
Test an opportunity
yes, or no?Name the opportunity, then answer each test honestly. Partly is allowed — it shows you what would have to change before you could say yes.