Cusp: Start, Finish, or Let Go

Most task apps give you two states: not done, and done. That is not how work actually ends. A great deal of it is neither finished nor forgotten — it just sits, for months, being neither. Cusp gives work four lanes, and the fourth is the point. CUSP — named, not started. Everything begins here. DOING — you have actually picked it up. DONE — finished. RELEASED — deliberately let go. Not failed, not deleted: decided. RELEASING IS AN ACTION, NOT A DELETE The thread stays, with the date you let it go. A list you are allowed to abandon is a list you can trust — and a list you trust is one you will actually open. THE SUNDAY GLANCE Once a week Cusp shows one short panel: the threads that have been sitting on the cusp the longest, and how many days each has been there. No badge, no streak, no notification pressure. Just the number, once, so that starting it or releasing it is a decision you…