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Dr. Prateek GuptaMBBS · MS General Surgery · FMAS
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Sidequests · 5 apps

Running the day

Obligations, the plan for the day, money and training.

Screenshots show the apps running on demonstration data only — invented cases, invented figures, invented notes, and example reading material in Kosh — except Lekh’s, which shows the real week that produced “The hour before the hospital”, before a word was written. No clinical, financial, or personal records appear in any screenshot.

Darj chat thread on demonstration data: one typed message split into cards for Tend, Sovereign Craft and Sift
Evolving

Darj

दर्ज — ‘entered, recorded’

Say it once; approve where it lands.

It began as a chat thread for logging the day. It is now my own assistant, on my phone and my Windows desktop: I type, in Hinglish if that is how it comes, or speak, and it answers, plans the day, or drafts entries for my apps.

Anything that would change a record comes back as a card for one destination: Surgical Log, Range, Sovereign Craft, Tend, Nook, Sift, Mirror, one of my private apps, or my calendar. A card holds only what I said; blanks stay blank, and what must be asked is asked, not guessed. Nothing is written until I approve the card, and most entries can be undone.

Lately it has learnt longer tasks that pause for my approval and pick up where they stopped, a plan for the day each morning and evening, and revision questions drawn from my own lectures. It changes most weeks, hence the tag.

Tend board showing demonstration cards across its lanes
Active

Tend

Get it out of your head.

A five-lane capture board for the constant stream of small obligations. Everything gets dumped into one inbox, triaged later, and closed with a tick — the point is a quiet head during rounds.

Sovereign Craft Today screen on demonstration data: a closed day with its meal and focus strip, the closing note and the day's totals
Active

Sovereign Craft

Plan the day. Close it honestly.

A native Android app for one daily loop: plan, record what actually happened, close the day with a short note on what was true, then look for patterns. Meals, focus, sleep and training are kept on the phone first, with an online backup.

A meal photo or a typed description becomes a draft I correct, and nothing is saved until I confirm it. No points, badges or levels. Built on one rule: I do not live to prove hardness; I live to build enduring worth.

Mirror capture screen with demonstration figures
Active

Mirror

A quiet ledger, not a lecture.

Spend capture in one screen, then a month-level view of what is actually left: on-hand cash against the forecast, EMIs coming up, and a watch on the two categories that leak.

Built because a budget you do not open is a budget you do not have.

In build

Range

Only saved work counts.

My training record, a native Android app. Gym sets are logged against the week’s plan, beside last time’s numbers, with a rest timer; walks, runs and rides are recorded by GPS with pause and resume. History runs by session and by exercise, with personal bests and a calendar of finished sessions.

Its rules are the point: a plan never counts as done, streaks and badges count only saved work, and a correction keeps the original beside it. It works offline with a local backup, and sync is optional. Darj can add to it only what I explicitly tell it, as a card I approve.

Still in build, so there is no screenshot yet.

A sketched Prateek hammering at a workbench; he pauses and waves when you scroll up