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

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]