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🐾 Toby's Trail
🐕 A Toby tool — The bloodhound who never loses the scent
When Holmes needed a trail followed to the end, he didn't rely on genius — he borrowed Toby, the bloodhound who never loses the scent. Give Toby your goal and he breaks it into a trail of concrete, ordered milestones with a first action you can take today. Check off each scent as you reach it, watch the trail fill in, and keep as many pursuits going as you have quarry. Progress is saved in your browser.
✅ Free to use — no account, nothing to configure.
What it does
A trail, not a wish
Goals become 5-10 ordered, concrete milestones — each one small enough to actually start.
The first action
Every trail names the single next step you can take today, because trails go cold fast.
Pursuit tracking
Check off scents, watch the progress bar fill, keep multiple trails, export any of them as Markdown.
How to use it
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Describe the goal — the quarry — and any constraints.
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Toby lays the trail: milestones in walking order, first action on top.
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Follow it. Check off each scent as you arrive.
Toby appears in The Sign of Four: "a queer mongrel with a most amazing power of scent... I would rather have Toby's help than that of the whole detective force of London."