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Actions are interactions and commitments you define for yourself and your contacts. Everything in People Work flows through actions. This app is about taking focused, intentional actions with others regularly and reflecting on them through journaling so you can take better actions over time.

Some apps focus you on data collection by promising to record all your meetings with AI. Others help you find a bunch of people to contact about your new business! That all feels like progress, but you don't have a data collection problem or a cold email problem. You have an action problem.

If you take the right actions with the right people, with a strategy behind them, you'll achieve extraordinary results toward your professional goals.

People Work helps you get there.

There are two types of actions:

Events

Events are interactions. Any time you connect with someone or set aside time for yourself, that's an event.

Examples:

  • A weekly 1:1 with a direct report
  • A quarterly stakeholder meeting
  • A Slack conversation where you checked in on a peer
  • A personal planning session to review your week
  • A coffee chat with a network contact

Events can recur weekly, biweekly, monthly, or on another schedule, so you don't have to recreate them.

Scheduled events appear as tasks to be journaled. When the event date arrives, that task becomes due.

Remember, no one is watching you do this. You can reschedule, change, or even delete these interactions. The purpose is for you to have an intention for a relationship, and that intention will often change. That's okay! The privacy of People Work lets you get clear on how you're approaching the relationship today.

Commitments

Commitments are promises you make or someone makes to you. Early in a relationship, the focus is on interactions. But as the relationship matures, you start to think about how you're helping that person and how that person helps you. You become someone others can rely on to get things done.

Examples:

  • "I'll connect them with Bob" — your commitment
  • "They'll give me feedback on my beta release" — their commitment
  • "I'll have the feedback ready before our next 1:1" — your commitment
  • "They committed to mentoring the new hire" — their commitment

The owner of the commitment is the person who made the promise. Your commitments are about follow-through; theirs are about accountability and making sure the relationship is what you think it is.

Events are always owned by you because they represent your intention to show up for an interaction.

Like events, commitments can recur.

Tracking commitments has been central to how I evaluate relationships. It helps me adopt a Give First mentality early in relationships and understand whether support is mutual. Journaling these commitments over time makes those patterns easier to see.