The focus dashboard
What do the most popular productivity frameworks have in common?
- Tiago Forte's PARA
- August Bradley's PPV
- Cal Newport's Multi-Scale Planning
- Jordan Peterson's Future Authoring
They all try to solve the same challenge: how do you stay focused and keep moving forward, even when the goalposts shift?
This session was about building a focus dashboard, a living system that ties together your areas, projects, actions, and reviews into one adaptable flow.
We showed how to:
- Capture tasks, projects, and routines across every area of life
- Align them with shifting goals, objectives, and KPIs
- Review progress across multiple time horizons (daily, quarterly, yearly)
- Bring it all together in a dashboard that keeps your focus on meaningful action, even as circumstances change
Mark started with a pre-built demo and then built a focus dashboard live from scratch, showing how to move from knowledge management to systems for action in a way that works for executives, consultants, and individuals alike.
Access the pre-build template here: Focus dashboard pre-build

