A blue plastic milk crate packed upright with records and paperbacks, lit by a hard flash

MILK

CRATE

A consumption queue. It holds the books, records, shows and games you actually mean to get to — and it does not nag you about any of them. books · tv · movies · games · music · podcasts

schema v4 · one binary · sqlite · runs on your own box

five states, one direction, no obligation

queuedwant it
nextup next
activein progress
donefinished
droppedabandoned on purpose

before

7

Desire. How badly you wanted it, recorded while you still only wanted it.

after

9

Rating. How it actually landed. Same scale on purpose, so the two can be read as one sentence.

Wanted a 7, got a 9. That is the whole argument for writing any of this down.

9
Analog Heart
Brandi Carlile
9
Spirit Of Eden
Talk Talk
8
Hex
Bark Psychosis
8
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
6
Promises
Pharoah Sanders

five of forty-one · rating, then title

The collection is not the queue

A keeper is a thing you'd own a physical copy of. It has nothing to do with where the item sits, and nothing in the pipeline reads the flag.

A 6 can be a keeper. A 9 can fail to be one. Something still sitting in the queue can already be one, because you've heard it before and you know.

An album is not finished once. It is finished again, and again, and the fortieth time is the strongest thing it can tell you — so the count is read back out of the event log instead of overwriting the date.

item0x03
logged2026-09-15 08:14

Analog Heart
byBrandi Carlile
kindmusic

desire7
rating9
keeper★ yes
tags#americana

first2026-08-05
latest2026-09-12
finishes2

“holds up. the harmonies are the whole record”

the shape of it

binary
One. Go, no runtime, no container.
store
SQLite in a directory you can back up by copying it.
ui
Server-rendered HTMX. Swimlanes: rows are lanes, columns are the pipeline.
api
Plain JSON under /api.
agents
MCP over streamable HTTP at /mcp, in the same process.
cli
Because a verdict should take one line to record.
limits
A soft cap that warns and never blocks, and per-lane minimums so one fiction book is always going.
accounts
None. It is yours, on your hardware.