Synthesis Catch-up Ledger

Version 0.3.0 (2026-08-14)

Consumer note (v0.2.0): synthesis-console v0.14+ renders ledgers live at /ledger — it classifies H2 sections by the heading keywords used in this skill's output sections ("Do now", "Verify before re-adding", "Done late", "Expired", "Released") and reads per-row state from a State table column when present. Ledger files live at <knowledge-root>/catchup-ledgers/YYYY-MM-DD.md. If this skill's section vocabulary or table shapes change, update the console's src/parsers/ledger.ts + docs/cockpit-design.md in the same session — producer and consumer must change together.

The problem

Falling behind is part of life. Travel, family visits, illness, and crunch weeks interrupt the daily-ritual cadence, and the interruption itself is never the failure. The failure mode is silent: commitments made before the gap decay invisibly, because every existing artifact is scoped to a unit of time that assumes continuity. Daily plans capture one day's intent. Weekly loose-ends reviews (synthesis-daily-rituals v2.8.0) assume Fridays happen. Project CONTEXT files capture project state, not personal commitments. When the cadence breaks, nothing reconciles what was promised against what happened.

The result, observed repeatedly in practice: items survive as anxiety rather than as records. The person knows they're behind but not on what, so the backlog feels larger than it is, and genuinely-expired items consume attention that live items need.