---
title: "Ebook Discovery Tracker"
description: "- **Last session:** [date] - **Modes explored:** 0 of 11 - **Active candidates:** 0 (0 high-viability) - **Ready for Concept Development:** none yet - **Next suggested action:** [what to do next]"
type: skill
canonical_url: https://claudary.paisolsolutions.com/skills/discovery-tracker-template
source: "Claudary"
difficulty: intermediate
author: "Claude Code Knowledge Pack"
date: 2026-07-10T11:19:54.380Z
license: CC-BY-4.0
attribution: "Ebook Discovery Tracker — Claudary (https://claudary.paisolsolutions.com/skills/discovery-tracker-template)"
---

# Ebook Discovery Tracker
- **Last session:** [date] - **Modes explored:** 0 of 11 - **Active candidates:** 0 (0 high-viability) - **Ready for Concept Development:** none yet - **Next suggested action:** [what to do next]

## Overview

# Ebook Discovery Tracker

## Quick Status

- **Last session:** [date]
- **Modes explored:** 0 of 11
- **Active candidates:** 0 (0 high-viability)
- **Ready for Concept Development:** none yet
- **Next suggested action:** [what to do next]

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## User Profile

- **Content inventory:** [what published content exists — blog posts, videos,
  newsletters, podcasts, courses]
- **Archives/systems:** [Zettelkasten, Notion, Obsidian, drafts folders, etc.]
- **Audience:** [who they reach, size, engagement level, platforms]
- **Expertise areas:** [domains of knowledge, professional background, unique
  intersections]
- **Ebook intent:** [income / authority / audience service / lead generation /
  passion project]
- **Constraints:** [topics to avoid, time constraints, length preferences, other
  limitations]

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## Exploration Log

| Mode | Status | Depth | Key Findings | Date |
| ---- | ------ | ----- | ------------ | ---- |
|      |        |       |              |      |

**Status options:** Not started, In progress, Complete, Skipped (N/A) **Depth
options:** Light scan, Moderate, Deep dive, Exhaustive

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## Candidates

### [Working Title] — Viability: High/Med/Low

- **Description:** [1-2 sentences describing the core ebook idea]
- **Source:** [entry mode] — [specific content/conversation that surfaced this]
- **Why this rating:** [reasoning for the viability assessment]
- **Validation signals:** [audience engagement, questions asked, views, comments
  — if any]
- **Concerns:** [risks, questions, things that could make this fail]
- **Time-sensitive?:** [yes/no — if yes, why and what's the window]
- **Next step:** [develop / park / kill / needs research]
- **Status:** [new / considering / ready for CD / parked / killed]

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## Patterns & Insights

Cross-cutting observations that span multiple candidates or modes:

- [Pattern or insight]

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## Parked Ideas

Ideas not ready for development but worth remembering:

- **[Idea]:** [Why parked — timing, needs research, depends on something else]

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## Killed Ideas

Explicitly rejected ideas with reasoning (prevents re-surfacing):

- **[Idea]:** [Why killed — too thin, no audience, already exists, wrong format]

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## Session Notes

### [Date]

- **Covered:** [what we explored this session]
- **Stopped at:** [where we left off mid-thought]
- **Open threads:** [things to pursue next]
- **User wants:** [what they said about next steps or preferences]

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## Available Modes

Modes not yet explored (with notes on potential relevance):

**Content-Based:**

- [ ] Content Audit — [notes on relevance given user's content]
- [ ] Book Extraction — [notes]
- [ ] Failed Project Resurrection — [notes]

**Audience-Based:**

- [ ] Repeated Questions Analysis — [notes]

**Knowledge-Based:**

- [ ] Expertise Extraction — [notes]
- [ ] Contrarian Positions — [notes]
- [ ] Translation Bridges — [notes]
- [ ] Personal Systems — [notes]

**Archive-Based:**

- [ ] Zettelkasten Mining — [notes]
- [ ] Parking Lot Review — [notes]
- [ ] Deep Archive Mining — [notes]

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